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crashed or what?
ok this post isn't exactly related to bf2 or a game for that matter, its more of a question if anyone knows what happened on my computer.
just before i went to work i was on it, haven't had a chance to play bf2 for a few days and i never got around to it again that day. so i turned it off and everything was running smoothly, nothing out of the ordinary. so after work, i get in the door (just around quater to 3 in the mornning to add to the frustration im feeling) and i get in my room, flick the switch and start cleaning up. i glance over at the screen, which should be waiting for me to input my pword by now and its still black with white writing.
i walk over to it to read and it gives me one option of using flash recovery, so i hit y. 5-10 minutes later i'm still waiting, hearing the same noise every 30 seconds i suppose, which sounded like the hard drive reader scratching or something. thats when i started to pick up on the pattern and figured i wasn't getting anywhere.
so i reboot the thing and this time, i press n for flash recovery. next thing i know it was doing some reltech scan i think, do not remember (2days + ago), and then it brings me to another black page saying that it is not booting and seeks the diskette A: to boot up.
so i go and dl the xp home ed boot up on another computer and try again. 6 floppy's later i get to a blue screen asking if i want to repair or install my OS. oh yeah, i almost forgot to say, the boot up instructions on the floppys is designed to get you as far as the cd-rom drive to install the OS. anyways, i get there, and i first tried repairing and then later on even tried totally re-installing but failed and got the same message twice. this message ran along the lines of saying my hard drive could not be located.
so these are my questions -
1. could it be software or hardware related? im pretty sure in this case that it is hardware related but then again, maybe its a virus...
2. has anyone had something like this happen before and if so, what did you do?
umm, well i guess thats all for questions really..
i do not think my computer specs would have anything to do with it but maybe it would help.
2x P4 2.8 ghz
120 gb HD
1024 ram
512 mb radeon vid card - 9800 series i think
i wish i remember more but its hard to. this is only 2-3 years old. i'm thinking if it is hardware related, buy a small cheap HD and get that computer back up and running and just build a new gaming system again. :|:
so yeah, any input would be great
just before i went to work i was on it, haven't had a chance to play bf2 for a few days and i never got around to it again that day. so i turned it off and everything was running smoothly, nothing out of the ordinary. so after work, i get in the door (just around quater to 3 in the mornning to add to the frustration im feeling) and i get in my room, flick the switch and start cleaning up. i glance over at the screen, which should be waiting for me to input my pword by now and its still black with white writing.
i walk over to it to read and it gives me one option of using flash recovery, so i hit y. 5-10 minutes later i'm still waiting, hearing the same noise every 30 seconds i suppose, which sounded like the hard drive reader scratching or something. thats when i started to pick up on the pattern and figured i wasn't getting anywhere.
so i reboot the thing and this time, i press n for flash recovery. next thing i know it was doing some reltech scan i think, do not remember (2days + ago), and then it brings me to another black page saying that it is not booting and seeks the diskette A: to boot up.
so i go and dl the xp home ed boot up on another computer and try again. 6 floppy's later i get to a blue screen asking if i want to repair or install my OS. oh yeah, i almost forgot to say, the boot up instructions on the floppys is designed to get you as far as the cd-rom drive to install the OS. anyways, i get there, and i first tried repairing and then later on even tried totally re-installing but failed and got the same message twice. this message ran along the lines of saying my hard drive could not be located.
so these are my questions -
1. could it be software or hardware related? im pretty sure in this case that it is hardware related but then again, maybe its a virus...
2. has anyone had something like this happen before and if so, what did you do?
umm, well i guess thats all for questions really..
i do not think my computer specs would have anything to do with it but maybe it would help.
2x P4 2.8 ghz
120 gb HD
1024 ram
512 mb radeon vid card - 9800 series i think
i wish i remember more but its hard to. this is only 2-3 years old. i'm thinking if it is hardware related, buy a small cheap HD and get that computer back up and running and just build a new gaming system again. :|:
so yeah, any input would be great
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