Hello All,
I am a long time reader, first time poster. This is one of the most knowledgeable forums I have ever come across and I am hoping someone can help me.
Here is the situation: After working fine the previous day, I tried to boot it up the next day and I got a screen filled with ////// and \\\\\\ all over it. It just froze there and didn't move. So I rebooted and I got a black screen. The fans all were spinning, power light was lit on the mobo and the optical and HDD access lights all went on, however the system wouldn't post and despite the HDD access light going on, I couldn't hear it spin up. I assumed the problem was the PSU crapped out on me so I installed a new one...same as above: black screen, fans spinning, no post. I had a friend who is much more knowledgeable than I am come over and he confirmed my video card was OK. We both feel it is most likely my mobo. Here is where it gets a little weird and confusing...at least for me:
I have three drives, two are in a RAID 0 array and the other is just a regular HD used for data storage. I am an idiot...for multiple reasons but one of the biggest here is that I just never backed up anything, no windows flash image, etc. I have important data on the RAID array drives and I don't want/can't lose it.
Soooo, I was wondering, if I was to get the same exact mobo, do you think I would be able to connect everything to it and it would post/boot like normal? Or would it require drive formatting or some type of configuration to be done that would not allow me access to those two drives?
What if I got another mobo but not the same one (as the P4C800-E Dlx is not exactly all over the place), could I possibly do the same thing?
Is there another solution? I went to some PC repair shops around my way and they all scared me...two of them didn't really seem to care about my problem and just wanted to reformat the drives with no discussion of data recovery let alone my half-baked schemes above...and the third didn't want to talk about my solution (which is probably understandable) but was willing to look at my raid drives for a fee to see if they were possibly recoverable and then was talking upwards of $300 and possibly as much as $500 to recover the data (if possible).
Well, I am not sure what else I could say that would possibly help you help me so if you have any further questions regarding my setup or situation please let me know. Any and all help anyone could provide me would be GREATLY appreciated!! Thanks in advance!!
13Bravo
USHA!!!
I am a long time reader, first time poster. This is one of the most knowledgeable forums I have ever come across and I am hoping someone can help me.
Here is the situation: After working fine the previous day, I tried to boot it up the next day and I got a screen filled with ////// and \\\\\\ all over it. It just froze there and didn't move. So I rebooted and I got a black screen. The fans all were spinning, power light was lit on the mobo and the optical and HDD access lights all went on, however the system wouldn't post and despite the HDD access light going on, I couldn't hear it spin up. I assumed the problem was the PSU crapped out on me so I installed a new one...same as above: black screen, fans spinning, no post. I had a friend who is much more knowledgeable than I am come over and he confirmed my video card was OK. We both feel it is most likely my mobo. Here is where it gets a little weird and confusing...at least for me:
I have three drives, two are in a RAID 0 array and the other is just a regular HD used for data storage. I am an idiot...for multiple reasons but one of the biggest here is that I just never backed up anything, no windows flash image, etc. I have important data on the RAID array drives and I don't want/can't lose it.
Soooo, I was wondering, if I was to get the same exact mobo, do you think I would be able to connect everything to it and it would post/boot like normal? Or would it require drive formatting or some type of configuration to be done that would not allow me access to those two drives?
What if I got another mobo but not the same one (as the P4C800-E Dlx is not exactly all over the place), could I possibly do the same thing?
Is there another solution? I went to some PC repair shops around my way and they all scared me...two of them didn't really seem to care about my problem and just wanted to reformat the drives with no discussion of data recovery let alone my half-baked schemes above...and the third didn't want to talk about my solution (which is probably understandable) but was willing to look at my raid drives for a fee to see if they were possibly recoverable and then was talking upwards of $300 and possibly as much as $500 to recover the data (if possible).
Well, I am not sure what else I could say that would possibly help you help me so if you have any further questions regarding my setup or situation please let me know. Any and all help anyone could provide me would be GREATLY appreciated!! Thanks in advance!!
13Bravo
USHA!!!