Ninehigh
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| posted on 6/6/09 at 11:15 AM |
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Server's down!
I've been using my old desktop as a file server, and now none of our other machines can acess it on the network. I know my laptop should as
I'm the one that's been shifting most of the stuff about but although it finds the server it can't get in.
I switched the tv over to the PC and the windows xp loading screen came on, went blank and that's it...
I got XP on a cd if I need to go over it, but if anyone else has any less desructive ideas seeing as this is the backup
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blueskate
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| posted on 6/6/09 at 11:24 AM |
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If you have another PC you can remove the hard drive from your backup pc, put it in your other pc. You should be able to access the files on the drive
and copy them off
Semper Paratus!
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 6/6/09 at 11:30 AM |
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Well, there's 3 drives in it, and I've been putting everything on the non-windoze drives so they'll be safe I'm just
safeguarding against some berk who's put their music on the C drive (and not in the music folder)
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fov
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| posted on 6/6/09 at 12:29 PM |
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Try booting into safe mode (press f8 as it boots) and if you can get in check the event viewer to see whats up with it.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 7/6/09 at 06:00 PM |
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I shall try that tomorrow, now to dig out the keyboard lol
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 13/6/09 at 06:20 PM |
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Bizarre
Plugged the keyboard in, booted up fine... 3 times 
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mistergrumpy
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| posted on 13/6/09 at 06:42 PM |
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I used to be a server at school dinners if I can help at all.
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 14/6/09 at 09:48 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
Plugged the keyboard in, booted up fine... 3 times
Check that the BIOS hasn't changed itself to halt on keyboard errors 
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 15/6/09 at 06:17 PM |
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Wasn't booting again this morning so I pulled it out and found the soundcard had fell out. Replaced that and I noticed one of the drives was
making the deadly ticking sound swmbo's portable drive did before it died. So I stuck each one of the two onto her machine and copied all the
important stuff over and formatted them both. I put the other one back (that didn't have windows on) and stuck the XP disc in. Now it refuses to
boot from the cd even when I specify to and when I try and go into the system setup it crashes.
I've got a diagnostic card as part of the motherboard and it crashes at the point of "copy bios to ram for faster booting"
So unless any of you helpful guys have got any ideas now I'm gonna say it's jiggered and new board time. Which no doubt means new
processor, ram, graphics card but hopefully not new case (keeping cost down)
Not too bothered it's self built and will have had 6 years hard wear this november
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