Just recently I put my older Dell hard drive into a newer system I built. It's built correctly, so no need to take that into consideration. All the parts are compatible because they worked perfectly fine with another hard drive. My problem is that the thing boots, goes to t he windows loading bar, throws the blue screen of death, and restarts, constantly doing this. I did a repair install, a chkdsk, everything I could think of. It still gives me the blue screen. Anyone know what's going on?
2007-02-18 05:29:47 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
It cant have that error if t here's no hard drive to boot to =p.. i'l review my bios settings
2007-02-18 05:34:58 · update #1
The hard drive cant be the problem. The last one in it was the exact same model, with the exact same windows version installed.
Experience: What experience..that's common sense.
2007-02-18 05:38:45 · update #2
The drives are set properly. The first is set as master, the second as slave just as it's supposed to be. Safe mode is useless. It seems to be a problem with one of the core boot files with windows.
2007-02-18 06:00:10 · update #3
Make sure your 1st drive is marked master and your 2nd is marked slave. Make sure your bios is booting up to your 1st drive too. Your 2nd drive is causing this rebooting. Maybe try safe mode. If you can save the files you want on that disk, just wipe that disk clean.
2007-02-18 05:54:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who says it is built correctly, because the parts 'worked' with another hard drive doesn's automatically mean that they will be ok with other hard drives. EVEN the same model hard drive can be different from one made right next to it that is why they have so many failures per thousand. Have you tried removing the hard drive to see if the computer works fine then? If this is the case then obviously the hard drive is causing the problems. Common sense is nothing compared to knowledge or experience
2007-02-18 05:36:53 · answer #2 · answered by joepublic101 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's your hard drive that you put in the computer. I had the same problem so i Just replaced the hard drive and it worked fine.
2007-02-18 05:48:13 · answer #3 · answered by Firas 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it sounds as if you have a hardware problem. try hitting the F8 key during start-up and boot it in safemode. goto the systems properties and look for any yellow marks. if none, then if you have pci cards andsuch , then pull them all out and try to boot the system. this is just a process of elimination tech guys do to find the problem.
2007-02-18 05:35:35 · answer #4 · answered by gas_indycar 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
disconnect the new hard drive and see if it spews the same error.
you may need to make sure your bios settings are correct.
2007-02-18 05:33:06 · answer #5 · answered by nonsanekp 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋