Shuttle Hard--drive

[Sishow]

Hi all.

 

My old shuttle PC is playing up. When it boots up, it gets to the XP loading screen before crashing and re-starting?

 

Is this a problem with the Hard-drive? Or something else?

 

Any advice please?:)

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Is this tied into the issue that you are having here Sishow?

 

http://extremetechsupport.com/forum/motherboard-issues/4015-motherboard-something-else.html

 

If so I'll merge the threads.

[Sishow]

No. Unfortunatly two computers failed within days of each other!

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Ok

 

Do you see any error messages before it reboots?

[Sishow]

No.

 

It just resets it self most of the time. It seems to happen at the point when its about to switch from the XP screen to the desktop mode.

 

The only thing I get is the select which mode of Windows you want (safe etc). Tried loading different BIOS settings, including the fail-safe, but no change. Just seems to reset at the sime time each boot!

 

[Tony D]

I had a machine in here this week with a very similar problem. It would boot and get to the Start menu and give you the choice of Safe Mode, etc. On this machine, I had to remove the hard drive and connect it to another machine and run chkdsk - that solved the problem (for now).

 

See if you can boot to Safe Mode. If it does, then you may have a Windows issue; if it doesn't then you may have a hard drive issue.

[Sishow]

Thanks.

 

Ive tried to boot it in safe mode and the same thing happens. Resets as soon as the 'Kitt light' stops moving.

[Tony D]

Sounds like a hard dirve issue. Connect the hard drive to another computer and run chkdsk /r.

[Seth]

From that boot menu, try "Last Known Good Configuration".

 

You can run the chkdsk without removing the drive by using an XP CD to boot, then going into the recovery console's command prompt. If you don't have an XP cd, you can download the recovery console from the net.

 

I'll explain further once I know whether or not you have an XP cd. Or, you can of course install the drive on another computer as Kelly suggested.

[Goku]

Please read the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles and perform the troubleshooting instructions suggested. See if they help or not.

 

Windows XP logon screen does not appear and the computer continuously restarts

 

Computer stops responding with a black screen when you start Windows XP

 

Let us know how it goes, though. Good Luck.

 

-- Goku

[Sishow]

Thanks for all the offers of help guys, but it appears to be in vain.

 

Managed to run chkdsk on the hard drive and it says the are "one or more unrecoverable problems" on the drive. Tried and complete restall of windows and that says the disk is not compatable with an install now.

 

Think I shall cut my loses and strip out the cards and the other drives and let the old system die.

 

 

Bah humbug!