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seb

20-03-2004, 11:18

I've just gotten a BSOD on bootup :(

Athlon64/MSI board/quality ddr400 corsair xms memory/180gxp drive

Problem is with the hard disk, I'm guessing.

Error is c000026c - unable to load device driver portcls.sys.

I have a windows 2000 CD - can I just boot from this and select repair?

Other advice?

cheers

ATrull

20-03-2004, 11:22

try the repair mode

you may regret it if you did not make 'repair disks' too.

if someone else has a similar windows install & version, they can probabley copy the files you need over to the disk if you give it to them.

seb

20-03-2004, 11:24

over to what disk? I have no ERD disks no, hell I don't even have a floppy drive :(

seb

20-03-2004, 11:30

so should I just do a w2k repair, or install to another volume and see what I can do from there?

seb

20-03-2004, 12:06

Right, I'm doing a repair, and it's coming up with loads of "setup has determined that the file: <file> is not the original file from the windows 2000 installation. Examples, ntdetect.com, ntldr, jit.dll, loads of them.

Is this somethign to be worried about, or is it just because I've done service pack 4?

ATrull

20-03-2004, 13:21

it should be alright to replace the buggers :)

if they're all from the same service pack, there shouldn't be any conflicts.

seb

20-03-2004, 13:24

gone to recovery console instead, and doing a chkdsk /r, which on a 180gb drive with 120gb of data takes a while :(

seb

26-03-2004, 12:10

i think i know why my hard disk died now, I think although it was saying it was 180GB it was only addressing it with enough bits to be able to ID 128GB of it, so when it wrote some system files to something above 128GB it puked because when it tried to access them it was looking in completely the wrong place.

Sound plausible?

I've now manually enable "BigLBA" in the registry, which is something I hadn't done before - I thought SP3/4 was all I needed.

26-03-2004, 12:20

quick semi related question.

What psu are you using as i still can't get my amd64/msi combo to work.

C.

seb

26-03-2004, 12:24

The Qtechnology 350W one that I mentioned from www.quietpc.com. It wasn't cheap, but it's silent and does the job for me. Only thing that bugs me is not having an on/off switch on it.