PC no bootie

the_cultie · 09-27-06, 11:09 AM

About 6 months ago I built a pc for a mate of mine with the following spec:

Amd Athlon64 X2 4800+ (Socket 939)
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
4GB OCZ Value DDR RAM (4 x 1GB)
XFX 7600GT
Plextor DVD drive - SATA
2 x Western Digital Caviar 200GB (RAID 0 -- 400GB)
OCZ PSU 520Watt (12v - 28Amps)

Recently he had some booting problems including an error message sayin that a "NTOSKRNL.exe" file was missing or corrupt, but the machine would still eventually boot into windows. Now a few days later the machine will not boot at all, even the Bios screen will not appear. I have tryed removing the Bios battery for 30mins and resetting it using the jumpers but with no sucess.
Tryed re-seating the graphics and the ram, but still no luck.

Has anyone experienced anything like this before or have any ideas ?

the_cultie · 09-27-06, 03:51 PM

anyone??

dfonda · 09-27-06, 04:13 PM

There's this: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000646.htm

Or maybe Windows recovery console off the Win CD: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058/

I was wondering if maybe a virus could have caused it? Did you get to try a restore before Windows gave out?

benbaked · 09-27-06, 05:52 PM

That does not sound good if the BIOS won't even appear, sounds like one of the components has failed.

What were the temps reading before it died?

I've only seen that NTOSKRNL message at boot when pushing an overclock too far.

the_cultie · 09-28-06, 05:51 AM

ok, thank for that. Will test the hardware in another system soon.

DavidJa · 09-28-06, 09:37 AM

if you cant even see bios wouldnt that be either the board, vid card or power supply?

09-27-06, 11:09 AM	Thread Starter #1
the_cultie Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Irish living in California	PC no bootie About 6 months ago I built a pc for a mate of mine with the following spec: Amd Athlon64 X2 4800+ (Socket 939) Asus A8N-SLI Premium 4GB OCZ Value DDR RAM (4 x 1GB) XFX 7600GT Plextor DVD drive - SATA 2 x Western Digital Caviar 200GB (RAID 0 -- 400GB) OCZ PSU 520Watt (12v - 28Amps) Recently he had some booting problems including an error message sayin that a "NTOSKRNL.exe" file was missing or corrupt, but the machine would still eventually boot into windows. Now a few days later the machine will not boot at all, even the Bios screen will not appear. I have tryed removing the Bios battery for 30mins and resetting it using the jumpers but with no sucess. Tryed re-seating the graphics and the ram, but still no luck. Has anyone experienced anything like this before or have any ideas ? __________________ AMD Opteron 180 @ 2.700GHz (225x12),, ~~DFI LanParty Ultra-D~~ Deceased,, Asus AN32-SLI Deluxe,, G.Skill 2GB (2x1024MB) DDR500 @ 225MHz,, EVGA GTX460SE,, Corsair TX650W,, MCP655->MCR220->Apogee GT->MCW60->MicroRES,, 2x WD CaviarSE16 500GB,, NEC DVD±RW,, Modded Jeantech Light Fusion --- Currently inoperable in Ireland Folding for Team32 "Whoa whoa whoa, we don't discuss leaving systems stock here. You'd overclock it for a few reasons. It makes it faster and because you can." - thideras
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09-27-06, 03:51 PM	Thread Starter #2
the_cultie Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Irish living in California	anyone?? __________________ AMD Opteron 180 @ 2.700GHz (225x12),, ~~DFI LanParty Ultra-D~~ Deceased,, Asus AN32-SLI Deluxe,, G.Skill 2GB (2x1024MB) DDR500 @ 225MHz,, EVGA GTX460SE,, Corsair TX650W,, MCP655->MCR220->Apogee GT->MCW60->MicroRES,, 2x WD CaviarSE16 500GB,, NEC DVD±RW,, Modded Jeantech Light Fusion --- Currently inoperable in Ireland Folding for Team32 "Whoa whoa whoa, we don't discuss leaving systems stock here. You'd overclock it for a few reasons. It makes it faster and because you can." - thideras
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09-27-06, 04:13 PM	#3
dfonda Senior Member Premium Member #16 Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: PA N. of Splat W. of Torin	There's this: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000646.htm Or maybe Windows recovery console off the Win CD: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058/ I was wondering if maybe a virus could have caused it? Did you get to try a restore before Windows gave out? __________________ #1Win7Rosetta2600k@4.5GHZ(Hyper212+)Msi P67 G65 16GB RAM evga560Ti #2UbuntuSMP BA 4P 6128's on a SuperMicro Phones:GNexus, Nexus 4, Galaxy S2(PGNexusROM), iphone5 Folding for Tim and his wife, Mark and his wife,Pete_Scout Oldskool and Adak Last edited by dfonda; 09-27-06 at 04:19 PM.
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09-27-06, 05:52 PM	#4
benbaked Folding/SETI/Rosetta Team Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: WA	That does not sound good if the BIOS won't even appear, sounds like one of the components has failed. What were the temps reading before it died? I've only seen that NTOSKRNL message at boot when pushing an overclock too far. __________________ HEATWARE (22-0) \| Folding/SETI/Rosetta (crunching BOINC as the ben.World.order) *My computer hardware is too old and embarrassing to list in my sig.* StaTek is my hero
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09-28-06, 05:51 AM	Thread Starter #5
the_cultie Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Irish living in California	ok, thank for that. Will test the hardware in another system soon. __________________ AMD Opteron 180 @ 2.700GHz (225x12),, ~~DFI LanParty Ultra-D~~ Deceased,, Asus AN32-SLI Deluxe,, G.Skill 2GB (2x1024MB) DDR500 @ 225MHz,, EVGA GTX460SE,, Corsair TX650W,, MCP655->MCR220->Apogee GT->MCW60->MicroRES,, 2x WD CaviarSE16 500GB,, NEC DVD±RW,, Modded Jeantech Light Fusion --- Currently inoperable in Ireland Folding for Team32 "Whoa whoa whoa, we don't discuss leaving systems stock here. You'd overclock it for a few reasons. It makes it faster and because you can." - thideras
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09-28-06, 09:37 AM	#6
DavidJa Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Folding&home	if you cant even see bios wouldnt that be either the board, vid card or power supply?
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