Recent content by fantomlord

i'll give that a shot.

I am using Windows XP Pro. I recently was trying to setup passwords on my user accounts. The pc only had an admin account and a guest. I setup myself as a user with a password and noticed that the admin account did not have a password enabled so i set one up. I then proceeded to reboot but...

chkdsk /r gives me a volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems. serial volume has all zeros. Next?

tried copying ntldr and ntdetect.com from a floppy to the c drive and rebooted but im still getting the ntldr file is missing. Tried bootcfg and im getting a volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems. when i did a dir of the c drive a windows dir is not present. What next?

in the windows system recovery console i only get a c: prompt not a c:\windows prompt where u just hit #1.

tried the dvd restore dvd that came with the pc and the windows recovery console but it still did not work. It goes to the recovery console then im at a c: prompt. I did a fixboot and now im getting a missing NTLDR file error when rebooting.

the deleted lsass.exe file was in the c:\windows\system32 folder. When it was deleted according to your thread link it will be replaced with another lsass.exe file so why am i getting the lsass.exe error then. The exact error is as follows, (i have to reboot many times to write down the full...

I have a pc with windows xp on it and it keeps rebooting with the same lsass.exe password error message. I even tried booting in safe mode but the same thing occurs. I tried hooking up the serial ata drive as a slave drive on a different pc and ran norton antivirus and ad aware in which it...

i changed that to no avail. then i couldnt see visually on how to click on the display properties?

paparazi...i have a 21" viewsonic monitor..about 8 yrs old. i'll try what u recommended and get back to u.

I have an ATI 9800 graphics card. One day the display was looking all scrambled. I ran a virus and spyware scan and the results were clean. I even tried to reseat my video card. I also thought it was my monitor and tried another and got the same results. I took a photo of my problem. click link...

EdFair, Nothing worked..i guess this hd is history. Thx for your help.

im guessing the hd is damaged since i cant even see it as a 2nd hd on a good system.

Satrow, The keyboard works fine without the hd connected to the mobo. I can get into the BIOS by holding the del key. EdFair, I can get into the BIOS with no HD or CDR connected. At that point you want me to set the boot order to not have any hd devices? What im trying to accomplish is to get...

EdFair, Initially i cleared the CMOS with the CMOS jumpers on the mobo and took the CMOS battery out for a few minutes. Then I placed the jumpers back on the default jumper settings. Then I disconnected the hd and cdr respectively and recieved the CMOS checksum error. When i rebooted i got into...