Eclipse Posted February 2, 2004 Report Posted February 2, 2004 Well, I have a major problem. I installed that CD burner sucessfully. Everything was going well.... Until yesterday. My sister used the PC, and got a STOP error. Also, the PC has slowdown. I noticed I got a worm as well, since I saw a process called microsoft.exe, which is a worm. My sister rebooted, and during the black and white "Starting Windows" screen, it loads for a second, and stops. What could be causing the problem?
MrRant Posted February 2, 2004 Report Posted February 2, 2004 A bunch of stuff. What do you mean by... stop? Can you boot to safe mode (tapping F8)? You can put in the WIN2K cd and try to repair the installation. No guarantee of their not being a loss of data though.
Eclipse Posted February 2, 2004 Author Report Posted February 2, 2004 The errors name was STOP error. Someone told me the Last Known Good Configuration will work. I will probably try that. I am not able to boot into safe mode.
MrRant Posted February 2, 2004 Report Posted February 2, 2004 Sometimes a device can cause that. Remove your CDR and see what happens.
Eclipse Posted February 2, 2004 Author Report Posted February 2, 2004 Well, before I installed the CDR: The main CDROM had a setting of "Cable Select." On the instructions, it said if you are connecting more than one device on the secondary IDE, you must make the existing CDROM a slave, and make the CDR the master. Was I supposed to connect the CDR on the secondary IDE cable? I know there was another cable coming from the existing CDROM... That stop error mentioned something about that this error occurs due to the hard disks.
MrRant Posted February 2, 2004 Report Posted February 2, 2004 Can you copy down the error and post it? That would be very helpful.
Eclipse Posted February 5, 2004 Author Report Posted February 5, 2004 The error doesn't pop up every time I boot up. It just happened that one time that my sister booted up... I tried taking out the CD burner, and set everything back to normal. It still didn't boot up.
Dr. Tom Posted February 5, 2004 Report Posted February 5, 2004 Errors like this are why I'm glad we're getting rid of Win2k at work soon. It might be possible to get the PC to boot by configuring the two CD drives as Master and Slave -- I always avoid using "cable select" -- but it's also likely that you're fux0red and will have to start over. For all its press, Win2k really is vulnerable to silly errors like this.
MrRant Posted February 5, 2004 Report Posted February 5, 2004 XP has some of the same shit too unfortunately. Maybe you should move to Linux.
Eclipse Posted February 8, 2004 Author Report Posted February 8, 2004 Linux....nah... I have never seen Linux, and I am so used to Windows, I wouldn't be able to change to Linux so easily...
Eclipse Posted February 8, 2004 Author Report Posted February 8, 2004 That was directed at Tom. Woops....
MrRant Posted February 8, 2004 Report Posted February 8, 2004 Linux isn't that bad for newbies now... it has a Windows like interface you can use.
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