We had the parts from our other PC: hard drives. motherboard, etc. Worked great. They sat in boxes for about a year. We bought a new tower casing to put the stuff in and the computer would not work. Bought a new power supply. No good. Bought a new motherboard. Still no good, but better. New processor. Now it works but Windows will still not boot up. It shows an error message and offers a few different options for Safe Mode, Last Good Configuration and Start Windows Normally but no matter what you pick, it just comes up the error message on a black screen with the safe mode options. I've tried holding F5 or F8 while it's booting to get into the other options but no matter what you choose, it still does the same thing. We then bought a repair and diagnostics kit that says the start-up files for Windows are missing. What in the world could have caused this and is it fixable without wiping the hard drives and reinstalling Windows? There is stuff on them we want, if we can possibly save it.
2007-07-29
12:35:48
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