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Windows XP Laptop turns off whilst booting |
James Stanley
Member #7,275
May 2006
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A friend has kindly brought over a Medion MID2030 laptop for me to fix. The laptop is running Windows XP Home (I assume with SP2). Upon pressing F2 to enter the system configuration utility, I am told that the BIOS is Insyde Software SCU, BIOS version M1.09, KBC version R1.05. It has 512Mb of RAM and an 80GB Samsung MP0804H hard disk. It has a 3.2Ghz P4. It has a CD/RW and DVD/RW combo drive. Now, when you turn it on, you see a big P4 logo and a line of text saying to Press F2 to enter the system configuration utility. Than the screen goes blank and some writing about the CPU and RAM appears. It then goes blank again and the Windows boot loader appears, asking what you want to boot. You may choose from: Safe Mode Whatever you choose ends up at the same place. ---- A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage unmountable_boot_volume If this is the first time you've seen this blue error screen, ..... to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed, if problems continue, ..... or remove any newly installed hardware ---- After this screen has disappeared it starts to boot all over again. Does anybody know what I can do? If I try to boot off a CD it says EDIT: |
BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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Sounds like your laptop is fucked up. By the way, a quick way to tell if you have SP2 or not is to look at the boot screen. If you have SP2, it won't specify Home or Professional edition, but if you have anything before SP2, it will say Home or Professional on the boot screen. |
Steve Terry
Member #1,989
March 2002
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If you can get an external floppy disk drive and try to boot to a windows XP boot disk. You may be able to run fdisk /MBR to fix the issue since it could be that the MBR is messed up. However since you are bluescreening it's getting to Windows so the disk must be bootable. There is a way to have a bluescreen in windows not shut the PC off but since you can't get into windows to change this it's kinda stuck. Not sure why the CD is not bootable, is it an XP CD? Repair CD? Copied CD? My guess is the HD is pretty much a gonner. ___________________________________ |
Samuel Henderson
Member #3,757
August 2003
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Too bad you cannot boot to a CD otherwise you would have been able to run fixboot and fixmbr from recovery console... Other than that I got nothing ================================================= |
James Stanley
Member #7,275
May 2006
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It is not SP2 then. |
BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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The MBR isn't messed up if it starts booting XP, it's something corrupt in XP referring to a different HDD as the root drive. You likely need a repair install or a reinstall. Also, there MAY be an option on that boot menu to disable automatic reboot on blue screens, I think I've seen it before, but I'm not sure on that. |
James Stanley
Member #7,275
May 2006
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I think it is more sinister than that... |
Tobias Dammers
Member #2,604
August 2002
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I say your hdd and / or BIOS controller has gone ka-zingggg, my friend. Or something else in da BIOS. If you can't boot from anything, then it's not the software. --- |
James Stanley
Member #7,275
May 2006
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I had a computer like that once, too. |
Tobias Dammers
Member #2,604
August 2002
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Wow, that's even less than that ancient machine had. It had a 200 MHz AMD CPU, 48 MB of RAM, and the infamous 200 MB Conner HDD. That same HDD survived a 15 km bicycle trip in a nylon backpack, otherwise unprotected, again without a single byte of data lost. --- |
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