Hd Screwed?
ellsKnight
Join Date: 2003-12-17 Member: 24466Members
Join Date: 2003-12-17 Member: 24466Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">cant figure this out</div> Basically i came home from work the other day to find the pc wouldnt boot up. my sister said she turned it off properly then it wouldnt work again.......****.
Well when you turn it on itll go to an option screen saying pc was shut down properly you can either choose
Safe mode
safe mode with networking
safe mode command prompt
start windows normally
None of these work, it just hangs. using safe mode i saw that it hanged at mup.sys......no i dont think that files infected, its just the last driver to load before the higher level stuff loads and the windows GUI kicks in (i think).
I tried all the usual things like switching ram, changing sockets, grahpics cards etc.
googled it and apparently quite a few people have had this problem. Tried all there solutions like removing all PCI cards, use boot disk etc. (no i dont have a USB 2.0 card)
Anyhow I've whacked the problem hard drive into my other pc and hooked it up as a slave drive. Windows boots from my good one and i can access all the stuff on the bad HD, i just cant boot from it.
Whats this got to do with NS? well i boot up steam from the slave drive and start up NS. it works.........but i get the most screwed framerates ive ever seen, whereas before i had a constant 60+ it now hangs around the 3 mark with occasional times where it goes to 60 and seems normal. even my always stable 20 ping is now bouncing from 20-200!
I can't play like this and i cant have this HD in my computer because i need them seperate.......help please!
Well when you turn it on itll go to an option screen saying pc was shut down properly you can either choose
Safe mode
safe mode with networking
safe mode command prompt
start windows normally
None of these work, it just hangs. using safe mode i saw that it hanged at mup.sys......no i dont think that files infected, its just the last driver to load before the higher level stuff loads and the windows GUI kicks in (i think).
I tried all the usual things like switching ram, changing sockets, grahpics cards etc.
googled it and apparently quite a few people have had this problem. Tried all there solutions like removing all PCI cards, use boot disk etc. (no i dont have a USB 2.0 card)
Anyhow I've whacked the problem hard drive into my other pc and hooked it up as a slave drive. Windows boots from my good one and i can access all the stuff on the bad HD, i just cant boot from it.
Whats this got to do with NS? well i boot up steam from the slave drive and start up NS. it works.........but i get the most screwed framerates ive ever seen, whereas before i had a constant 60+ it now hangs around the 3 mark with occasional times where it goes to 60 and seems normal. even my always stable 20 ping is now bouncing from 20-200!
I can't play like this and i cant have this HD in my computer because i need them seperate.......help please!
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ive had this problem several times, but caused by driver updates which were easily remedied by an XP repair install.
it could either be bad sectors or a few randomly corrupt files (i get that quite often, drivers just decide to become corrupted). try a repair install (doesnt delete installed programs, only re-installs the windows runtime files). also once you do the repair install, run a surface scan to see if it is bad sectors. will take ages to do but they need to be marked as bad if they exist otherwise you risk windows using them again.
when hard disks die, they make **** sounds or start smoking, and dont work at all.