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Major problem. Started up my (other, brand new) system and got a message
that a vital core file is corrupted or missing, if I recall correctly system
32 or similar. When I pressed r at the bit where it says to do so it just
cycles through the startup and goes back to where it says to press r. My
more knowledgeable friend hit del/f9 to get into the setup and changed it so
it booted from cd rom, put in the XP disc and rebooted to be greeted by a
blank screen. Nothing. We didn't even get it to start the initial booting
procedure you get after just switching on.
Being a new system and the fact I have installed quite a lot of software
plus all the stuff I have migrated from my old PC, (all of which I am pretty
sure is virus free) collectively means the potential causes are anything and
everything but if it is something I've done it's one of these:
Last night I wanted to get my two systems set up for some LAN based gaming
and the only game I had to test it that'd run on both systems was Quake. I'm
wondering if I have screwed something up by trying to run such an old game
on a pretty up to date system (my graphics card is a 256mb GeForce
FX5600XT).
I also set up my old PC so that'd it share the VGA signal (through a
switcher) between an old monitor and the monitor it currently shares with
the new system, which connects to it via DVI-I. Other than the ethernet
cable I can see no way my new PC could be effected by anything I do with
the setup on my old PC, certainly not with the monitor cabling.
I used my CDRW drive to play a music CD and it seemed to be running a little
hot so I switched to my DVD Rom drive to play music CDs and that seemed ok.
Maybe you aren't meant to use a CDRW drive like a CD player?
I have a USB2 device connected but haven't installed SP1 as yet.
My power supply has a dial to change the speed and I might have had it too
low.
I installed, uninstalled and then reinstalled some DVD related software, I
had NVDVD installed, played a DVD with Windows media Player and Pyro, then I
uninstalled NVDVD and tried to play the DVD. (As part of the process of
getting my head round the way DVD software works). Maybe DVD software roots
itself deep into the core system files and you can't piss about with it like
that?
I turned off Zone Alarm to get the LAN to work properly and the system
crashed.
Kinda clutching at straws now!
My friend noticed a light that was lit up on my motherboard (Gigabyte K7
Triton) that should only be lit if an AGP2x graphics card is installed,
according to the manual, slightly worrying when I'm using an AGP8x. It's
been doing that since I first started using the system but I didn't even
think twice about it, I just thought it meant there was power. Anyway the
board wasn't loose so I don't know why it was doing that.
In a way I'm really hoping it is hardware related because that at least
means I don't have to tread on eggshells with anything I try to do with this
system.
Jay
Major problem. Started up my (other, brand new) system and got a message
that a vital core file is corrupted or missing, if I recall correctly system
32 or similar. When I pressed r at the bit where it says to do so it just
cycles through the startup and goes back to where it says to press r. My
more knowledgeable friend hit del/f9 to get into the setup and changed it so
it booted from cd rom, put in the XP disc and rebooted to be greeted by a
blank screen. Nothing. We didn't even get it to start the initial booting
procedure you get after just switching on.
Being a new system and the fact I have installed quite a lot of software
plus all the stuff I have migrated from my old PC, (all of which I am pretty
sure is virus free) collectively means the potential causes are anything and
everything but if it is something I've done it's one of these:
Last night I wanted to get my two systems set up for some LAN based gaming
and the only game I had to test it that'd run on both systems was Quake. I'm
wondering if I have screwed something up by trying to run such an old game
on a pretty up to date system (my graphics card is a 256mb GeForce
FX5600XT).
I also set up my old PC so that'd it share the VGA signal (through a
switcher) between an old monitor and the monitor it currently shares with
the new system, which connects to it via DVI-I. Other than the ethernet
cable I can see no way my new PC could be effected by anything I do with
the setup on my old PC, certainly not with the monitor cabling.
I used my CDRW drive to play a music CD and it seemed to be running a little
hot so I switched to my DVD Rom drive to play music CDs and that seemed ok.
Maybe you aren't meant to use a CDRW drive like a CD player?
I have a USB2 device connected but haven't installed SP1 as yet.
My power supply has a dial to change the speed and I might have had it too
low.
I installed, uninstalled and then reinstalled some DVD related software, I
had NVDVD installed, played a DVD with Windows media Player and Pyro, then I
uninstalled NVDVD and tried to play the DVD. (As part of the process of
getting my head round the way DVD software works). Maybe DVD software roots
itself deep into the core system files and you can't piss about with it like
that?
I turned off Zone Alarm to get the LAN to work properly and the system
crashed.
Kinda clutching at straws now!
My friend noticed a light that was lit up on my motherboard (Gigabyte K7
Triton) that should only be lit if an AGP2x graphics card is installed,
according to the manual, slightly worrying when I'm using an AGP8x. It's
been doing that since I first started using the system but I didn't even
think twice about it, I just thought it meant there was power. Anyway the
board wasn't loose so I don't know why it was doing that.
In a way I'm really hoping it is hardware related because that at least
means I don't have to tread on eggshells with anything I try to do with this
system.
Jay