Disable auto-reboot in BIOS

rmg1

It's sorted now - thanks to all.
He's had to bite the bullet and go for a factory reset using the PC angel. Just have to remove Norton and reinstall all his other bits and pieces all over again.

Does anyone know of a way to update PC Angel to his new set-up once we've got everything the way he wants it?

rmg1

Hi all
Thought I'd resurrect this thread rather than start a new one.
Nothing has changed (AFAIK and he says) on the PC but the problems back again.
I don't fancy going through PC Angel again as it wipes the drive back to a factory reset.
I just need a way to get the BSOD error number.

Anyone?

John_Gray

JonnyF gave you the right answer in message 2 of this thread. You can do this at any time.

rmg1

It won't boot that far. It gets to the Windows XP screen and then reboots. I can't actually get to the desktop to get to Control Panels.

totalsolutions

Hi have you tried my earlier response #4 ?

I suspect overheating of the CPU and/or graphics card first, powersupply and connection leads next to be checked.

Corrupt drive / registry / files. You need to scan drive with a product called Spinrite from www.GRC.com , have a look at the site.

rmg1

He did, but it doesn't seem to be keeping the image on screen.
No digital camera available AFAIK but will keep looking into that.

I've heard someone else say something about a BartPE disc. What's that and would it be any use?

::edit::
Just tried to disable the auto-restart on my machine and got the following pop-up:-
"If the pagefile on volume C: has an initial size of less than 0 megabytes, then the system may not be able to create a debugging information file if a STOP error occurs. Continue anyway?"

My pagefile is set to system controlled (or whatever the option says). Should I continue anyway (I've cancelled it for now)?

rmg1

Anyone, please?

rmg1

Hi all

Managed to stop it rebooting automatically and found the error code :-
0x000000ed Unmountable_Boot_Volume

There are other codes in brackets but I didn't think to get them.

As the machine has a recovery partition with PC Angel on it, we can't (as far as I can see) get to the recovery console as suggested on the MS website..

Anyone any suggestions?

MothballsWallet

totalsolutions wrote: »

Hi have you tried my earlier response #4 ?

I suspect overheating of the CPU and/or graphics card first, powersupply and connection leads next to be checked.

Corrupt drive / registry / files. You need to scan drive with a product called Spinrite from www.GRC.com , have a look at the site.

I can second the Spinrite recommendation - the guy who wrote it is/was a hard drive developer for many years, and he was one of the main people who came up with tools to detect the "click of death" on Iomega Zip drives.

rmg1

There were no noises from the HDD as far as I know, it's just suddenly decided not to boot. Now I have the error code, it looks like known problem with IDE drives with caching enabled, but it doesn't tell you how to fix it.