My guess... at the very least you have a bad on-board IDE controller. The ongoing errors reported by chkdsk are likely causing trouble to the point of "damaged beyond repair" on the XP partition. You could try re-installing (delete partition, create partition, format with NTFS [do NOT take the quick option]) just to see if it would work.
If the hardware is causing all of the problems the install will fail or problems will resume very shortly after that. Just make sure you install from an XP SP2 CD or do not connect to the Internet until after SP2 is installed. Whether it's beating a dead horse depends on how much free time you have for this. Based on bad behavior you've found already, I'd save my free time and get ASUS to replace it, already. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph Harrison Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 5:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: A7N8X-E Deluxe Yes the same one, and the Warranty should be good for almost 2 yrs as the original A7N8X Deluxe was only a year old when it did the volcano trick with the caps, it worked reasonable well until then. I started it again this morning and the drive was visable again and I did not fix the bios it just saw the drive. How is it possible for the bios to be broke (changed ) and restored without me doing anything. It would not boot but did get chkdsk finished with 2 items fixed or replaced. On trying to boot again windows ran a check (chkdsk?) and showed about 1000 files that were bad or unreadable it never finished as it hung again!!! I started it with my Barts PE disk and moved some files to save and then ran chkdsk from it also but it never finished as it hung again, it did run for about an hour. Is it worth reinstalling XP Pro or am I beating a dead horse? Thank You Joe Harrison -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
