boot hang

**Sandwich** · April 24th, 2006, 10:47 AM

Well this machine as listed below started having noticable restart problems about two weeks ago. I get booted all the way almost. Right where the mouse pointer becomes visisble. Mine never does.. I sit there at a dark screen, the monitor light is green, but no picture. Is this a power problem? Maybe my power supply doesn't have enough oomph to get it to boot anymor. This machine was always left on, so didn't become a problem until I couldn't reboot. For a while going into safe mode fixed the problem on reboot from safe mode. It's very frustrating to wait and hope for a mouse pointer.

My thought is to get a new Ps from newegg and try that. However, I'm not sure that that stands a chance of success. What do people think. I will not be back home till tonight. I'll get on wife's machine and view posts then.

Thanks in advance.

**gemstone** · April 24th, 2006, 02:50 PM

Enter the RAID config utility during POST and see if there are any conflicts to resolve, if there is none boot to console and run checkdisk on all drives.

**Sandwich** · April 24th, 2006, 06:00 PM

Well as usu I didn't install the restore console on this computer. Is there an other way of running ck disk? I'm all backed up and I can try to reinstal XP MCE It won't install to a bad array right?

**Sandwich** · April 24th, 2006, 06:09 PM

No conflicts either!

**Sandwich** · April 25th, 2006, 07:18 AM

Well it doesn't seem to be hardware, butuo I stored my b/u's on a pata maxtor 200gb drive. I thought that when I reinstalled windows on the raid array I could access the pata for b/u files. Unfortunatly, my drive is no longer seen in windows. Partionmagic sees it, but want to format it, etc.
What has happened here? Did I pick up a virus? I hate to loose my b/u.

**Sandwich** · May 11th, 2006, 07:49 AM

Wel;l I think I have this figured out, but I'd appreciate comments.
I had installed norton's goback on my originall install. Of course, it didn't work when I needed it.
With my new installation not seeing the backup HDD indicates to me that goback did something to it's MBR. I probably will not be able to read the thing unless I put goback on this install. Unfortunately I put recoveryconsole on this install and goback will not install because it sees my system as a dual boot one now.
Is this right? any comments. I have lots of music on the HDD. Lucky for me some is backed up on mp3 cd's.
I disconnected the b/u HDD from the system currently. If the above is right can I expect a reinstall ,with putting goback on this time ,will allow me access to the b/u?