Last night the box worked fine, today it starts loading XP for a while then restarts itself, starts loading XP a while then restarts itself, ad nauseum...
"Load last working config" does the same thing.
On Safe mode it hangs at the line with "giveio.sys"
Using a BartPE disc it boots into XP fine, the primary disc shows up but I can't access it due to "I/O device error". So I can't just re-image it. I assume the I/O stuff means there's a problem moving data between the disc and the MB. I took the SATA cable out, flipped it around, no improvement. All I can think is to buy another SATA cable, I doubt if I can even install XP again if I can't access the disc. Bad disc or MB? Other suggestions?
"Load last working config" does the same thing.
On Safe mode it hangs at the line with "giveio.sys"
Using a BartPE disc it boots into XP fine, the primary disc shows up but I can't access it due to "I/O device error". So I can't just re-image it. I assume the I/O stuff means there's a problem moving data between the disc and the MB. I took the SATA cable out, flipped it around, no improvement. All I can think is to buy another SATA cable, I doubt if I can even install XP again if I can't access the disc. Bad disc or MB? Other suggestions?