Posts by encore018

Quote: Originally Posted by Bluelightning Attempt booting from your windows disk and repairing windows (NOT reinstalling windows). Also, if you have any other harddrives around, try installing windows on one of...

i have a western digital caviar black 640GB EDIT: I just took the battery out. Also, while looking through my motherboard manual, i found that i have post beeps when i turn the computer on. It beeps that i have a CMOS error and video...

Thanks! I'll give it a try.

Quote: Originally Posted by Bunnywinkles Try Clearing the CMOS. That may fix it i'll try that. Only problem is i've been away from the computer scene ever since i've built this computer, and completely...

Oh no, the external was not in while the OS was installed. Its only that for the past week or so i had the USB port plugged in always.

Quote: Originally Posted by Faster_is_better Did you plug your external back in, the way it was then try? yes, i plugged it in the front like it was plugged in before, and nothing happened, however, it may...

it keeps blinking then stops. however, i just put in the windows CD and while it was loading files, i got a system error saying that it may be caused by removing a device such as an external HD while it was in use. and that it cannot...

Another thing that i noticed. On the PCI Devices Listing the device clas "SMBus Cntrlr" its IRQ is NA, which i don't ever recall seeing. BUT HD is 1st in the boot order, and what actually happens is the cursor at the end of...

There is nothing in the optical drive, the computer is posting, and in BIOS, the hard drive shows up. EDIT: I'll check the connections. A problem i might want to note is that yesterday, the speakers began changing volume from very...

hmm. the only thing that caught my eye was that i always had my external Hard drive plugged in but unplugged it last night while it was still on (not being accessed though, so it was ok to unplug).