My buddy brought over a Sony Viao PCV-RX851 desktop for me to look at. He said it would not boot for a week except for one random time. He tried to use the recovery CD's and they would give an error and not install.
Now I have it. I am thinking the HD is dead, but I want to be sure. I will list some of the symptoms I have found.
1. This just seems odd. I get this when I try a generic windows XP cd. It appears right above the press any key to boot from CD
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM :
No Emulation
2. Sometimes on booting of the recovery CD it gives a...
STOP: c00021a {Fatal System Error}
The Windows Logon Process system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of oxc0000005 (0x00000000 0x00000000).
The system has been shut down.
3. Recovery CD boot error #2... <sigh its long>
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Check to be sure you have adequate disk space... blablablabla
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x0000007E (0xc0000005,0xF77484CE,0xF7C5F0B0,0xF7C55EDB0)
*** acpi.sys - Address F77484CE base at F7748000, DateStamp 3b7d8550
hmm.. well it seem sthat now those are the only 3 things I can get it to do. I got it to reformat the drive once through a windows CD but it had an error on installation. It also used to boot the recovery CD then give some kind of immage error.
Anyway thanks for taking the time andfor any help
Now I have it. I am thinking the HD is dead, but I want to be sure. I will list some of the symptoms I have found.
1. This just seems odd. I get this when I try a generic windows XP cd. It appears right above the press any key to boot from CD
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM :
No Emulation
2. Sometimes on booting of the recovery CD it gives a...
STOP: c00021a {Fatal System Error}
The Windows Logon Process system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of oxc0000005 (0x00000000 0x00000000).
The system has been shut down.
3. Recovery CD boot error #2... <sigh its long>
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Check to be sure you have adequate disk space... blablablabla
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x0000007E (0xc0000005,0xF77484CE,0xF7C5F0B0,0xF7C55EDB0)
*** acpi.sys - Address F77484CE base at F7748000, DateStamp 3b7d8550
hmm.. well it seem sthat now those are the only 3 things I can get it to do. I got it to reformat the drive once through a windows CD but it had an error on installation. It also used to boot the recovery CD then give some kind of immage error.
Anyway thanks for taking the time andfor any help