Hard drive refuses to boot into the operating system?

Question

Okay so I have a Gigabyte S-series mobo w/ a dual core intel processor, BFG 650 watt power supply, Nvida 256 mb Gforce fx 5500 graphics card.

At first, nothing would spin, but a flip of the power switch to set it at 115 fixed that and I thought I was good to go again. But now, I get no beeps only fans. It is supposed to beep right?

I've made sure the power is mounted to the board. It is NOT the power supply. I have had it tested already, and confirmed what I was told (that it is fine) on a tester that I own as well. So I know it's not that.

I do get display and can go into bios, but not load safe mode or normally. It just restarts every time I try. Besides the lack of beeps, it boots like it should till it gets past the bios screen that you can see in any comp. I can get in bios itself no problem, but if I try to countine with the boot instead it says the usual generic message:

The message is, "we apologize for the inconvince, but windows did not start sucessfully. A recent hardware or software change may have caused this. etc etc."

And when I try to start windows normally, I get a split second of the windows load screen, but it's barely noticeable due to not even having time to get brighter before a blue screen with some sort of message comes up and the system restarts. I wish I could read the blue screen, but it happens to fast.

If I try to load safe mode, it starts loading the long list of files you normally see before entering safe mode, but it restarts. No blue screen or anything, just a restart.

This can happen all day if I let it.

Answer 1

Looking at what I found the mobo you are using has an Award bios on board. According to the link below there is not a beep code for a successful boot listed.

Try to see if it will boot from a bootable floppy or a Windows install CD. If it will that may eliminate hardware as a possible issue. If it won't boot from either of those you will probably need to start looking at memory, motherboard, or CPU as a source of error.

If the system will boot from an install CD or floppy, then you probably have a corrupt Registry file. You can try the instructions in the link below to rebuild your registry or if you have your Windows install CD you can try to launch a repair installation from it. Good Luck.

Answer 2

Give this "repair" install a shot. Sounds like corrupted boot initiation files to me.



REPAIRING OR REINSTALLING WINDOWS XP

Turn your PC on and insert the Windows XP disk into the CD/DVD drive while the power is on.

Reboot/restart the PC. This will cause the PC to boot from the XP disk and not the hard drive..

Allow the PC to run the boot up sequence. It will stop at a “black and white” screen and there will be an option to select a “repair” installation or a “full” installation.

NOTE:

If you simply want to repair/fix any and all corrupted and/or problem XP files select the “repair” option. This will only rewrite the XP files and will not affect any of your personal files or software on your PC.

If you want to Format the hard drive and rebuild it completely select the “full” installation option. Be aware that with this option you will “erase” all the files and software on that hard drive.


Select either the “repair” or “full” installation option and simply let the software run. Follow any onscreen prompts that may appear, especially during the “full” installation.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Your problem sounds like a conflicting driver or service update downloaded from microsoft. I see you are using an nvidia graphics card that is a few generations old, while the card may function normally, recently microsoft released a Directx9.0c update patch that could have been installed automatically if you use the automatic updates feature. This patch to the Directx9.0c rendered alot of the older video drivers obsolete. Several clients experienced similar issues shortly after realizing that the patch had been installed.

Go into your bios, set your boot sequence to CD first, insert your XP CD into the optical drive, restart your computer and boot from the CD. On the Welcome to Setup screen, press 'R' to launch the recovery console. Next it should list your installed operating systems, even if you only have one, highlight it and press enter to load it into safe mode. Recovery Console has to primary features that can possibly correct your non-booting problem, they are:

Fixmbr c: -- Fixmbr will attempt to repair any corruption in your boot sector of your primary system partition so you machine will boot properly.

Now, after you have run this, restart your computer and attempt to boot to safe mode with networking. If the system lets you get to the desktop, goto your control panel add/remove programs, after it populates, uninstall your current video drivers, upon completion the system will reboot, let it boot normally, you will know you were successful when you get to the desktop and the shortcuts are huge because it will load the default vga drivers and 640x480 resolution. Now go onto the internet and goto: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp so you can download the newest drivers for your operating system and video card series. Once they have downloaded, install them, these should correct your conflict issue caused by the Directx update previously installed.

Answer 4

Just out of curiosity do you have another graphics card? When you boot with safe mode choose safe mode with VGA. Also try setting the BIOS to defaults and see what happens. Did you overclock either the graphics card or CPU?
If neither work try to run a repair of the OS

Answer 5

If you didn't put any F6 drivers in when you installed the OS go into bios and change your SATA settings from enhanced or AHCI(varies per board) to IDE. That usually occurs when your hard drive is configured improperly in your bios. Can also occur if you don't have bios current enough to support your cpu or you don't have a revision of that board thats needed. If you run in IDE with a SATA put the SATA drivers in!

Answer 6

Go into BIOS and see if it detects the hard drive and that it's enabled to boot from it. If not I would check the cables that connect the hard drive to the motherboard to see that they are seated properly. Check the jumper on the hard drive to make sure it is set properly also.
Also, try booting from a Windows CD.

Answer 7

I know what this is. I just had the same problem a few days ago. Chances are that your hard drive has bit the dust. You may need to get another one. I did and everything works fine.

Answer 8

Sorry i dont HAVE A BIG LONG COMPLEX ANSWER BUT IT SOUNDS PRETTY SIMPLE TO FIX. Try replacing the memory or take out one stick ans swap them to find the bad one. Definately sounds like your memory. Also, remove your CMOS battery and put it back in to reset your board. that should fix you up. take it easy.

Answer 9

Do a re-install or windows repair.

Windows is the probelm, not your hardware.

Answer 10

i which fomat is urz disk if it in ntfs then plzz format it and if it in fat 32 then change it to ntfs or kkkkkkkkk