A friend recently had a major system failure, and he gave me his PC to fix it. I'm not exactly sure how it happened, but it seems likely that there was a power surge and the motherboard was fried. The system would not boot at all - when it was powered up, the power LEDs would come on, but that was it, there was no POST, and no video output to the monitor. I went ahead and replaced the motherboard, and now it will POST and display the motherboard splashscreen, but when it attempts to boot windows a message is displayed telling me that windows cannot boot because a major configuration file is missing. It then goes on to tell me to try to repair the installation by using the windows installation CD. Ok, so I attempted to boot from the Windows XP installation CD, but the CD-ROM keeps hanging during the hardware detection phase.
So, as it stands right now I've got a machine that cannot boot from the hard drive, and cannot boot well enough from the CD-Rom to fix the hard drive. Does anyone know what the problem might be? The system specs are as follows:
Biostar B8T890-A9 Motherboard
Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 939 CPU
2x 512MB OCZ PC3200 RAM
Western Digital 160GB HDD
Radeon x800 PCI-Express Video Card
Thanks for any advice.
So, as it stands right now I've got a machine that cannot boot from the hard drive, and cannot boot well enough from the CD-Rom to fix the hard drive. Does anyone know what the problem might be? The system specs are as follows:
Biostar B8T890-A9 Motherboard
Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 939 CPU
2x 512MB OCZ PC3200 RAM
Western Digital 160GB HDD
Radeon x800 PCI-Express Video Card
Thanks for any advice.