HELP Screen of Death?

[jlovell]

On boot up it locks on the first screen (black with white lettering) Name of processor and "hit del for bios or hit f9 for set up. It will go no futher. I have rebooted UN Pluged and hit Bios Reset. No change It will not recognize my USB or old fashoned plug in key board. What to do? Recently I lost standby so I went in to BIOS and changed to S2 then went to power options and enabled hibernate. Everything seemed to be working OK. Also recently upgraded ATI drivers for my X1800XT.Seemed to be working fine also until yesterday and I lost my active desktop. Reset some values on the X1800XT and everything ok again. Turned off last night and turned on again everything ok. Turned off for the night and then this morning the Bad!
MSI NEO4-F, Antec true power 450,Sapphire X1800XT, 2-512 Cosair value Ram, AMD 64 3800+ Dual core. Have not overclocked.Fatality sound. XP Home. Raid-0, Seagate. System a year old and been doing well.

Your help is appreciated!

 

[g-paw]

If you're getting the Blue Screen of Death, it's likely your hard drive got corrupted. When I run into this I first try to do a clean install of Windows and if that doesn't work, I get a copy of a diagnostic/repair software from the mfg site and usually have to format the drive and of course lose everything. Others may have a less drastic suggestion but this is what I do

 

[jlovell]

No not the dreaded blue screen it's the first screen that comes up after boot.

 

[g-paw]

No not the dreaded blue screen it's the first screen that comes up after boot.

I just ran into a similar problem after installing a new CPU. Sometimes when I turned on the machine I just got a blank screen, sometimes it would go through the start up and go to a blank screen before booting Windows, and sometime would actually start Windows. Every time I would get the blank screen I would hit the reset button. One time when I got into Windows I disabled Hibernate and have not had a problem since. Am using XP. Have you tried going into Safe Mode or booting from the XP disk? If you can boot a Floppy and a CD, it's likely that the OS got corrupted. If you can get into Windows even in Safe Mode you could try a System Restore. If you haven't done so, could try clearing the CMOS.

 

[jlovell]

Will try thanks

 

[g-paw]

Let us know what works

 

[jlovell]

Hey thanks everyone. Got it going 😀 Reset CMOS and got into BIOS. Reset BIOS to defaults then reset RAID , Date and Time, and USB legacey. It looks good!! Thanks Again.

 

[g-paw]

Hey thanks everyone. Got it going 😀 Reset CMOS and got into BIOS. Reset BIOS to defaults then reset RAID , Date and Time, and USB legacey. It looks good!! Thanks Again.

Glad you got it worked out. I'lm celebrating your success with a beer. :lol: