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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (7876)	6/14/1999 4:41:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>Hang on blue NT bootup screen You get through the boot selection, ntdetect, ntloader (the black boot screen) and hang during the disk check phase (blue screen), is that correct? That means you've successfully initiated the NT kernel. I HAVE seen disk problems which will make chkdisk hang (or is it scandisk -- I never remember. Anyhow, the NT one). I don't specifically have any notion why flashing bios would cause a disk problem, but you're right, you should have been certain of a current backup before doing it. Not that that helps much after the fact. Can you access the partition that won't boot from your backup? If not, you probably do have a disk error of some kind. If so, copy the registry hives so you can restore them in case you need to rebuild NT. To make it simple, copy winnt\system32\config (where most of the hives are) and all of the user profiles (winnt\profiles) where the rest of them are. When was the last time you made an emergency repair disk? If you have a reasonably current one, you can try to recover with that. If you made one but don't have it due to Mysterious Forces, you can make another by copying the contents of Winnt\repair to a floppy (winnt\repair gets the data for the ERP before it's written to the floppy). However, that will only help if you have a registry or a boot sector (or MBR) problem, and from the sound if what's happened you don't. Here's another question: Do you seem to get almost through the "blue screen" boot phase then hang? If so, there may be a difference in the hardware configuration in the bios since you've flashed it. E.g., the C drive may have a bad bios spec or something. Anyhow, it's another thing to try - checking all the BIOS settings, I mean. Especially the disk settings. Good luck. 'Fraid I wasn't much help. Spots