system won't boot

[kep55]

I finished building my new PC
Gigabyte GA K8NS Pro
Athlon 64 3000+
Antec TruePower 430
CoolerMAster Praetorian Cas
Kingston Hyperex PC 2600 512MB
Reused NEC 1100A DVD+RW
Reused Maxtor 80 GB HD (Still had all files, including WinXP on it)
Reused Western Digital 30 GB HD

After going through the boot cycle about ten times I finally figured out the BIOS needs to be set to disable the GigaRaid and SerialATA Raid functionality. Still no boot to WinXP.
I reset the BIOS to boot from CD-ROM and inserted the WinXP Pro disc. Still nothing. As I write this, the floppy drive light is staring at me.
What next? Everything seemed to be going swell.

I know enuff to be dangerous. :tongue:

 

[Crashman]

Your floppy cable is incorrectly installed, read the first post in this forum.

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[kep55]

You're a pain, Crashman. One helluva smart dude who knows his stuff, but still a pain. 😉
Anyway, thanks for the dope. I guess this might also be why the activity light is always lit on the floppy.
BTW - I reloaded WinXPPro (Yes, I do read the forums first. Occasionally.) and the system now boots. Too bad I can't install SP1. BSD half way through. I'll do a search and post for that one.
THANKS!

I know enuff to be dangerous. :tongue:

 

[xeenrecoil]

heheh
Its usually something silly like that, and even experianced computer builders have bad days, and miss things like that.
It proves that its all in the details.

 

[kep55]

I also posted this to the WinXP forum. Someone's bound to have an answer. Micro$oft doesn't.

Something is causing Windows XP Pro SP1 to malfunction when I'm trying to install it. I can get every other update just fine, but SP1 stops and returns an error called "machine_check_exception" . I even formatted the hard drive and did a clean instal of Win XP Pro, then loaded the nVidia and Gigabyte drivers. Once that was loaded, I loaded the ATI Radeon 9200 drivers. I disabled the Gigabyte & SiS raid controllers from BIOS. Went to Windows Update and downloaded 52 security patches. Everything was as smooth as glass. When I tried to DL SP1, the system craps out. Any suggestions? The Windows newsgroups, Tom's Hardware, SharkyExtreme and AnandTech web sites haven't a clue what's going on.
The two harddrives, the DVD+RW, and Radeon 9200 were all transferred from my Dell XPS-T700r (with PowerLeap 1.4 GHz CPU) and had all worked flawlessly.
Interestingly enough, when I try to load Norton AntiVirus, it also return the machine_check_exception error, but the rest of Norton SystemWOrks Pro 2004 installs without a squawk.

Gigabyte GA K8NS Pro mobo
Athlon64 3000+ CPU
Kingston Hyperx 512 MB kit PC3200 (KHX3200AK2/512)
ATI Radeon 9200
Onboard RealTec audio
Onboard Marvell 10/100/1000 LAN connection/controller
Maxtor 80 GB HDD
WD 30 GB HDD
NEC floppy
CoolerMaster Praetorian Case

I know enuff to be dangerous. :tongue: <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by kep55 on 08/21/04 00:02 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[kep55]

I think I may have narrowed down the problem. There's something wrong with my Western Digital drive. I tried to run AdAware, chkdsk, file cut, file copy, Ghost and they all return the machine check exception error.
So, any suggestions on how I can move about 500 files off the two logical drives so I can run fdisk & format on the WD Caviar?

I know enuff to be dangerous. :tongue:

 

[kep55]

Okay, it's not the HD, although after two or three file transfers at once the MCE pops up. I got these errors from the Event Viewer. Could they be the cause?

Here are some error messages I found in the Event Viewer. They all point to the COM+ events. Could these be causing the MCE?

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: EventSystem
Event Category: (52)
Event ID: 4354
Date: 8/21/2004
Time: 8:38:20 PM
User: N/A
Computer: CAESAR
Description:
The COM+ Event System failed to fire the StartShell method on subscription {A5978620-5B3F-F1D1-8ED2-00FA0035B753}-{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}-{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}. The subscriber returned HRESULT 80004001.

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: EventSystem
Event Category: (52)
Event ID: 4356
Date: 8/21/2004
Time: 11:20:56 PM
User: N/A
Computer: CAESAR
Description:
The COM+ Event System failed to create an instance of the subscriber partition:{41E90F3E-56C1-4633-81C3-6E8BAC8BDD70}!new:{D3938AB0-5B9D-11D1-8DD2-00AA004ABD5E}. CoGetObject returned HRESULT 80070422.


Event Type: Warning
Event Source: EventSystem
Event Category: (54)
Event ID: 4353
Date: 8/21/2004
Time: 11:20:56 PM
User: N/A
Computer: CAESAR
Description:
The COM+ Event System attempted to fire the EventObjectChange::ChangedSubscription event but received a bad return code. HRESULT was 80040201.

I know enuff to be dangerous. :tongue: