Eskimo
07-16-2007, 06:38 PM
Hi all,
A couple of weeks ago my hard drive died.
"Unmountable boot drive"
When starting in safe mode I was able to see that it was getting stuck on AGP440 when the BSoD occurred.
Unfortunately, I was particularly stupid and followed the suggestion on the BSoD and disabled all CPU caching on my machine (don't worry, I've already smacked my own head into the wall numerous times as penance).
MS were right. I no longer had the error. Instead it just hung on the file that used to produce an error. Thanks...
Anyway, the main point here is that since disabling the cache I have been unable to enter the BIOS again to turn it back on.
I hit escape and it tells me the usual and I press F1. Nothing happens. Ever... I now have, what I like to call, a Black Screen of Never Alive.
New hard drive, much futsing and many hours later. I now have Win98 on the machine (XP won't install from DOS), which is, needless to say, running extremely slowly. I'm trying to upgrade to XP, but each attempt takes about a day and once it completes the file copy and actually starts the install it appears to do nothing as well (I've left it for 12 hours in that state with no change).
I was hoping to upgrade my BIOS in the hope that it would remember how to let me edit it, but as you know, I have no external gear and you can only update the bios from windows XP.
I was hoping that I could use HWSetup in 98 and maybe turn my caching back on. Unfortunately, when I run the setup for Toshiba Utilities, it shows the installshield preparation screen then the process exits with no information.
Very sorry for the long post. Just wondering if anyone can help me turn back on my CPU caching so that I can at least watch my WinXP install fail without having to wait a day.:-)
Thanks!!!
A couple of weeks ago my hard drive died.
"Unmountable boot drive"
When starting in safe mode I was able to see that it was getting stuck on AGP440 when the BSoD occurred.
Unfortunately, I was particularly stupid and followed the suggestion on the BSoD and disabled all CPU caching on my machine (don't worry, I've already smacked my own head into the wall numerous times as penance).
MS were right. I no longer had the error. Instead it just hung on the file that used to produce an error. Thanks...
Anyway, the main point here is that since disabling the cache I have been unable to enter the BIOS again to turn it back on.
I hit escape and it tells me the usual and I press F1. Nothing happens. Ever... I now have, what I like to call, a Black Screen of Never Alive.
New hard drive, much futsing and many hours later. I now have Win98 on the machine (XP won't install from DOS), which is, needless to say, running extremely slowly. I'm trying to upgrade to XP, but each attempt takes about a day and once it completes the file copy and actually starts the install it appears to do nothing as well (I've left it for 12 hours in that state with no change).
I was hoping to upgrade my BIOS in the hope that it would remember how to let me edit it, but as you know, I have no external gear and you can only update the bios from windows XP.
I was hoping that I could use HWSetup in 98 and maybe turn my caching back on. Unfortunately, when I run the setup for Toshiba Utilities, it shows the installshield preparation screen then the process exits with no information.
Very sorry for the long post. Just wondering if anyone can help me turn back on my CPU caching so that I can at least watch my WinXP install fail without having to wait a day.:-)
Thanks!!!