<p>Was ide. Tried ahci with no luck. Pulled drive from mirror for external mount.<br>
Blank.<br>
Gone.<br>
<sigh><br>
Really wanted to dodge a reinstall.</p>
<p>No clue on failure root cause. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 6, 2012 4:53 PM, "Rich Faulkner" <<a href="mailto:rfaulkner@tux86.org">rfaulkner@tux86.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Jim, <br>
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Didn't read through all of this but have you confirmed in BIOS: AHCI vs. IDE mode? That will often cause a BSOD at GDI on XP.<br>
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Rich<br>
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On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 15:53 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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This is OT because the base system here is a zillion year old XP box (don't ask - software won't run on new crap)<br>
<br>
system became unresponsive to keyboard (USB) on the main connection on mobo but worked on front panel connectors. Then those quit.<br>
<br>
Clearly a hardware issue. <br>
<br>
Noticed smell of overheated electronics from power supply so replaced it.<br>
System had trouble booting but was OK going into safe mode.<br>
<br>
2 main drives in RAID 1 on a 3ware sata RAID card. System not happy about being shutdown uncleanly (many crashes before I was called) and ran a full chckdsk /r on boot drives which reported no errors.<br>
System will auto-reboot on normal startup at splash screen and now complains about new hardware (3ware controller!) in safe-mode. The RAID controller(s) were not changed so maybe a bit of drive scramble in that sector. Time to reload drivers. woo.<br>
<br>
Original driver disk nowhere to be found so using latest download from LSI (2009 - about when the controller card went in) to add driver to OS drive(s). <br>
<br>
Can't. Installer requires a VC++ something that requires the windows installer to run. But safe mode won't run the windows installer.<br>
<br>
reboot and cuss. Try floppy image - dug out usb floppy and found a single working floppy disk (thought I had tossed all of those?). Install would run but reboot asked for drivers again.<br>
<br>
cuss more when safe-mode now automatically reboots on startup. No way to access system drives anymore.<br>
<br>
Replace motherboard, CPU, RAM, CD drive and power supply. Boots to safe mode (YAY!) for new driver install. But original drivers for both RAID cards (other is an adaptec with a mirror pair with application data) were now needing to be installed. Plus now need to "re-authenticate" (cuss. spit.)<br>
<br>
???? How are the originally working 3 days ago drivers vanishing ????<br>
<br>
unplug EVERYTHING, all drives, all raid cards, and try to boot from a known good XP hard drive built on a different system<br>
<br>
It does the same thing as the other drives! Gets to the XP splash screen then reboots the systems.<br>
<br>
F8 - set no restart on error - no change, set debug mode - just restarts with no messages<br>
<br>
Insert original installation CD to try for recovery console - blue screens after _long_ fight to get driver disk (see floppy) to work.<br>
<br>
Try newer XP-SP3 disk - blue screens<br>
<br>
memtest says all RAM is just fine (single pass all tests).<br>
<br>
W T F !!!!!?????!!!!!?????<br>
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