rmc17
10-17-2009, 10:41 AM
I have a dell dimension 4550 - prob. 7 yrs old....
got home from work yesterday, found Windows updates rdy to be installed...went through those, restarted, had more Windows updates, did that, restarted... all ok, though PC seemed slow...hard drive was spinning away though no processes were running.....by evening, the computer was veryy slow....mouse dragged inconsistently, IE took forever to open....finally froze.
Had to power off and back on again...
1st time i got "Drive 0 on the primary EIDE controller is operating outside of normal specs..."
hit F1 to continue....got to Windows XP startup screen and bar going back and forth across bottom of screen then no further.
Power off and on again
This time I tried F2 to see settings which didn't help me....continued...got "A problem has been detected. Caused by PartMgr.sys....PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA with codes underneath...no further
Next reboot - hit f12 - chose boot from last successful setting (or something like that) - didn't work
Next Reboot - Safe mode - started to scroll commands down the screen then hung and got no further.
Next reboot - One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency message, which is currently running..
HELP! I don't know why I'm getting so many different messages...everything says to reboot in safe mode and Restore but I can't get it going at all...
I'm very grateful for any guidance you can provide...
Rob
***Update - CHKDSK is done (I guess...) - file verification completed; indexes came back with File record segment 10838 is unreadable; Security descriptors and Usn journal both completed. That's all the screen says and computer is doing nothing...
got home from work yesterday, found Windows updates rdy to be installed...went through those, restarted, had more Windows updates, did that, restarted... all ok, though PC seemed slow...hard drive was spinning away though no processes were running.....by evening, the computer was veryy slow....mouse dragged inconsistently, IE took forever to open....finally froze.
Had to power off and back on again...
1st time i got "Drive 0 on the primary EIDE controller is operating outside of normal specs..."
hit F1 to continue....got to Windows XP startup screen and bar going back and forth across bottom of screen then no further.
Power off and on again
This time I tried F2 to see settings which didn't help me....continued...got "A problem has been detected. Caused by PartMgr.sys....PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA with codes underneath...no further
Next reboot - hit f12 - chose boot from last successful setting (or something like that) - didn't work
Next Reboot - Safe mode - started to scroll commands down the screen then hung and got no further.
Next reboot - One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency message, which is currently running..
HELP! I don't know why I'm getting so many different messages...everything says to reboot in safe mode and Restore but I can't get it going at all...
I'm very grateful for any guidance you can provide...
Rob
***Update - CHKDSK is done (I guess...) - file verification completed; indexes came back with File record segment 10838 is unreadable; Security descriptors and Usn journal both completed. That's all the screen says and computer is doing nothing...