Boot Issues

UezeU · 10-13-2005, 09:08 PM

Helping out a friend with this and can't seem to solve the problem.

HP 734n 2400XP TB
512MB ram
nvidia 440mx
wd 80gig

I reinstalled XP on this computer after a severe viral infection and it worked perfect for two days. It then froze up and every time she tried to reboot it went into a reboot loop. Threw in a copy of Knoppix and it also failed to boot. Tried to reinstall XP and it hangs also. Threw in my copy of UBCD and ran mem and harddisk utilities and found hardly anything wrong. One of the disk scanners found 1 bad sector but two others found none. Put in an old 40 gig I had sittin around and still no change. Finally I thought to run Knoppix in debug mode and it is hanging because of "lost interrupts" to all drives hda, hdb, hdc, etc. Searched the web but found nothing useful. Anyone out there smarter than me? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Running Knoppix 3.8

freakyg · 10-13-2005, 09:45 PM

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Originally posted by UezeU
Helping out a friend with this and can't seem to solve the problem.

HP 734n 2400XP TB
512MB ram
nvidia 440mx
wd 80gig

I reinstalled XP on this computer after a severe viral infection and it worked perfect for two days. It then froze up and every time she tried to reboot it went into a reboot loop. Threw in a copy of Knoppix and it also failed to boot.

you may need to re-flash the BIOS........ whatever virus that infected the system may have corrupted the BIOS also..............

UezeU · 10-14-2005, 09:38 AM

Can any virus affect the BIOS? I will try that though.

Bjerrk · 10-14-2005, 09:53 AM

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Originally posted by UezeU
Can any virus affect the BIOS? I will try that though.

Sadly, yes.

That serves this friend of yours well for using Windows XP

Kind Regards Bjerrk