Can't recover from Dell CD
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From: Colin Wilson on 19 Apr 2008 21:28 > Again, thanks very much for any help past and future. Have you checked the memory with something like Memtest86 ? - the worst weekend of my life consisted of 26 attempted installs of 'doze, each failing at different points with random error messages. It was knackered memory. Failing that, you might get an idea whether there's a hardware issue by booting a linux live CD...
From: WSZsr on 20 Apr 2008 08:01 Go into the BIOS to the SATA Operation setting and change it from "Raid Autodetect/AHCI" to "Raid Autodetect/ATA" and give it a try. "Dave Smith" <Sallydog(a)cox.net> wrote in message news:uf0l04tek6i5idnu0dhlfsltdoo8pg4hpo(a)4ax.com... > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:07:12 -0700, Dave Smith <Sallydog(a)cox.net> > wrote: >
From: Juan Kerr on 20 Apr 2008 09:26 On Apr 20, 1:01 pm, "WSZsr" <nos...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Go into the BIOS to the SATA Operation setting and change it from "Raid > Autodetect/AHCI" to "Raid Autodetect/ATA" and give it a try. That rings a bell, I'm pretty sure that's what I had to do to convince Vista that it *really* needed to install.
From: Dave Smith on 20 Apr 2008 21:05 On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:01:21 -0500, "WSZsr" <nospam(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >Go into the BIOS to the SATA Operation setting and change it from "Raid >Autodetect/AHCI" to "Raid Autodetect/ATA" and give it a try. > >"Dave Smith" <Sallydog(a)cox.net> wrote in message >news:uf0l04tek6i5idnu0dhlfsltdoo8pg4hpo(a)4ax.com... >> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:07:12 -0700, Dave Smith <Sallydog(a)cox.net> >> wrote: >> > Thanks for the suggestion. Tried it and no go. After that I reset the BIOS to factory default just in case something else had changed and after removing the Diskette drive from the boot sequence it booted off the recovery disc but then to the same BSOD.
From: Christopher Muto on 20 Apr 2008 22:09
"Dave Smith" <Sallydog(a)cox.net> wrote in message news:kqpn045vkkqrjl8h3se8japjcvave9i14j(a)4ax.com... > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:01:21 -0500, "WSZsr" <nospam(a)hotmail.com> > wrote: > >>Go into the BIOS to the SATA Operation setting and change it from "Raid >>Autodetect/AHCI" to "Raid Autodetect/ATA" and give it a try. >> >>"Dave Smith" <Sallydog(a)cox.net> wrote in message >>news:uf0l04tek6i5idnu0dhlfsltdoo8pg4hpo(a)4ax.com... >>> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:07:12 -0700, Dave Smith <Sallydog(a)cox.net> >>> wrote: >>> >> > Thanks for the suggestion. Tried it and no go. > > After that I reset the BIOS to factory default just in case something > else had changed and after removing the Diskette drive from the boot > sequence it booted off the recovery disc but then to the same BSOD. this must be very frustrating... i wonder if the led diagnostic lights labled abcd that are on the back of the system are light in all green or are reporting an error code (off, green, or amber in any combination). also, if you have the original cds, have you trid popping in the diagnostic cd and seeing if the system passes all diagnostics? |