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    NP2090 can't boot, always crashes

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Mets, Apr 15, 2008.

  1. Mets

    Mets Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guys,

    Sorry for a long post. My NP2090 (Vista64) has worked fine for 6 months, but a few days I was just browsing the internet when all of a sudden it black screened, and since then I haven't been able to get it to boot.

    When I restart, I get to the bios, then the vista load screen shows up, then it quickly does a blue screen right to a black screen and shuts off. I got it to run in safe mode and downloaded a recovery disk, ran chkdsk, and it seemed to fix everything. I booted into windows like normal, and in a few minutes it crashed exactly like above.

    I called xoticpc support and the guy told me to try to remove & reinstall nvidia drivers - it seemed to work fine without them, but I tried reinstalling and it repeated the above crash. Now I can't even get it to boot into safe mode.

    I ran memtest86 and there are no memory problems.

    It could be hardware but I'm going to try reinstalling the OS unless somebody has a better idea. I have both Vista 32 and 64 and XP Pro 32 and 64 and I'm wondering - which do you think I should use at this point?
     
    Mets, Apr 15, 2008
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  2. 000111

    000111 Atari Master

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    i have had no problems with xp 32. i would try that, personally. you could also try another version of the nvidia drivers. are you familiar with laptopvideo2go.com? maybe you could a driver that works.
     
    000111, Apr 15, 2008
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  3. Selenium

    Selenium Notebook Evangelist

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    Did you by any chance recently install SP1?
     
    Selenium, Apr 15, 2008
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  4. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    sounds like you might need to do a HDD check:

    get into Safe Mode if you can.... or if not, use a Windows disc

    Then get into Command Prompt, then type:
    CHKDSK C: /F
     
    Gophn, Apr 15, 2008
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  5. P_Schneider

    P_Schneider Notebook Consultant

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    Format and re-install (or use recovery disk) unless you have something vital that you need to get at.
    I would think this is software related unless you're getting errors at post.
     
    P_Schneider, Apr 15, 2008
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  6. Mets

    Mets Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks for the replies guys - it ended up being a hard disk failure, the bios won't even recognize it anymore as a boot option. Sager is sending me a new one, I should be getting it Monday-Tuesday sometime.
     
    Mets, Apr 17, 2008
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    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Just out of curiosity, what brand was the hdd?
     
    Shyster1, Apr 17, 2008
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  8. samerjb

    samerjb Notebook Geek

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    Yeah..What was it?
     
    samerjb, Apr 19, 2008
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    My money is on Fujitsu. Even though I have one, I plan to get rid of it soon.
     
    eleron911, Apr 19, 2008
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  10. Mets

    Mets Notebook Consultant

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    Actually it is the Seagate Momentus 160GB 7200 RPM. Not recognized by the bios or a windows xp install cd. Ubuntu and Vista install CD's recognize it at boot, but Ubuntu fails during formatting and freezes, while the hard drive will disappear in the middle of Vista trying to create an NTFS partition. I should get the new one tomorrow, so hopefully that was all that was wrong.
     
    Mets, Apr 21, 2008
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  11. samerjb

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    Did you try to Disable ACHI in the Bios?
    After you format & set OS up turn it back on then insatll chipset drivers.
     
    samerjb, Apr 22, 2008
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  12. Mets

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    You need AHCI for Vista and I couldn't get it to format or install in Vista.

    I got the new hard drive today. Disabled AHCI, installed XP. Hasn't crashed yet, so we'll see.
     
    Mets, Apr 22, 2008
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