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Hi guys,
I have lots of trouble with my PC. I have been happily using for 1 year a 160 GB Seagate Serial-ATA HDD on VIA 8237. Something must have gone terribly wrong with an update of the Serial-ATA driver and now the PC reboots continuously upon XP start (with a flash of a blue screen with lots of writing but it reboots after a split second and there's no way in hell to see what it says).
Q1: Is there any way to reinstall the driver without booting the GUI?
Q2: Does XP+SP2 CD have native support for Serial-ATA controllers (i.e. no need for F6 during XP setup)?
Q3: Has anyone experienced anything similar and, if so, what was the solution (apart form reinstalling)?
P.S. Last known good configuration does not work either, which bites...
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Posted: 2005-04-28 09:37:03
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P.P.S. Kind of an emergency...
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Posted: 2005-04-28 10:05:19
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are you able to press F8 during the boot and get into safe mode?
if so you could try system restore and go back to the last checkpoint before you installed the new driver. That has always got me out of sticky situations such as this, though I have not had this exact problem myself
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Posted: 2005-04-28 10:10:21
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thanks for the suggestion masseur, i already tried and it doesn't work either. I really don't want to get the whole works installed again. but if i have to, i'll also throw in a linux distribution (if i remember how to
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Posted: 2005-04-28 11:06:30
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oh well, it was just a thought.
I've been doing a bit of reading and from what I can tell XP doesn't support SATO drives natively yet although microsoft sound like some limited support might be available
Serial ATA in the Microsoft Operating System Environment
my new vaio has an 80gb Serial ATA drive so this does interest me so if you find a solution let us know please
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Posted: 2005-04-28 11:13:01
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I dont think the drivers have something to do with this, the blue screen and auto-rebooting means your boot sector is corrupt.... at least thats what the guy at the computer shop told me when this happened to me
You have to re-install the OS
Or if you have a bootable WinXP CD,boot with it, there is a repair option in it, you could try that.. but i havent tried it myself so i cannot predict the outcome
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[ This Message was edited by: k4m!k4ze on 2005-04-28 10:36 ]
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Posted: 2005-04-28 11:32:58
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i'm thinking of using the repair function in the XP setup to see if that works. I was however able to find a solution to integrate a new driver in the XP distribution, but I'll have to try that. Here's the link.
http://greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/READING/addraid.htm
@k4m!k4ze: seems we were both considering the "repair" option. However, it is definitely not the MBR since it boots just fine.
[ This Message was edited by: judge on 2005-04-28 10:40 ]
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Posted: 2005-04-28 11:38:24
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if u can enter the safe mode,roll back the update to previous orginal drivers,
exactly when does the bsod comes and reboots?
,after the boot to os loading time or what?
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Posted: 2005-04-28 19:08:58
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I've seen this several times, repair reinstall often works because you can load in a working sata driver from a floppy or cd at the start of the XP install procedure, like you would with a fresh install.
Don't want to worry you or anything but these symptoms can also be indicative af a hard disk controler fault, i.e. dicky hard drive
It's more than likely the sata driver or MBR in your case though, both of which should be sortable via a repair reinstall
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Posted: 2005-05-01 17:18:57
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