_dee wrote:
> Well, I presume it's hardware. The system was running fine for a
> while. Started intermittent lockups--Memtest86 showed bad ram. Pulled
> it, and am now running on just one stick (1 GB). Memtest86 says it's
> OK. I've Seagate's Seatools on the boot drive several times. No
> reported errors.
>
> But I'm still unable to boot from the system. Seems like most hardware
> should be all right, in that Memtest86 and Seatools both run. The
> machine usually locks at some indeterminate spot during the WinXP boot
> process though.
>
> Tried setting up another boot partition on D:. Got it to boot once,
> but not again.
>
> Any recommendations for hardware diagnostics or at least some way to
> narrow this down?
>
Download a Knoppix CD from Knopper.net. There are CD and DVD versions,
but the last CD version is a bit older. It still works fine, and I use
more than one version for testing without a problem. The value of the tool
is the display of the boot sequence on the screen.
You download a 700MB ISO9660 file, burn it with Nero to a CD (the ISO9660
is a way of specifying the whole CD, rather than you transferring just
the file to the CD - you need a tool that knows how to read an ISO9660
and convert it into the info on the CD). Pop that into the CD drive on
your P4C800-E and boot. You may get some idea, from where it gets stuck,
as to what is wrong.
Knoppix can mount foreign file systems, and the more recent the version,
the better the integration. There may still be some partition types
it doesn't know what to do with.
Knoppix mounts foreign file systems read-only, and you have to fiddle
around to make the volume writable.
Once in Knoppix, with a terminal window open, you can use "lspci",
"lsusb" and "dmesg" to display stuff about hardware.
The Knoppix CD also includes a copy of memtest, which can be run
as a boot time option from the boot command line. You probably
don't need it, but it is an added bonus.
Paul
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