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Hey,
Got a new pc a couple of months ago from mesh.
specs are:
athlon 64 3500+
gig of RAM
windows xp home sp2
ASUS A8NE-FM Mainboard
DVD
300gig SATA HD
all was fine at first, and then i had a couple of BSODs i think something to do with IRQ but cnt remember, but i thought nothing of it as nothing more happened.
I switched my pc off to go away for a few days (dont normally ever turn it off) and when i came back to put it on, it boots up, windows opens, after about 5 seconds, it crashes and i get a BAD_POOL_HEADER error, in which it suggests that i turn off mem shading etc in the BIOS and that i try safe mode.
Problem:
pressing f8 at bootup just allows me to choose what device to boot from (HD or DVD drive), so i cant get into safe mode.
i also think that it might ahve something to do with the DVD writing software that was installed before i received the machine, which has created a virtual DVD drive (vobid) i seem to remember this being mentioned in the first BSOD i got when i booted my machine up.
I ahve no floppy and no windows cd as mesh provide everything on one disc.
PC really did work fine for the first few months then now i cnt get windows to stay running for long enough to fix anything.
please help :(
Got a new pc a couple of months ago from mesh.
specs are:
athlon 64 3500+
gig of RAM
windows xp home sp2
ASUS A8NE-FM Mainboard
DVD
300gig SATA HD
all was fine at first, and then i had a couple of BSODs i think something to do with IRQ but cnt remember, but i thought nothing of it as nothing more happened.
I switched my pc off to go away for a few days (dont normally ever turn it off) and when i came back to put it on, it boots up, windows opens, after about 5 seconds, it crashes and i get a BAD_POOL_HEADER error, in which it suggests that i turn off mem shading etc in the BIOS and that i try safe mode.
Problem:
pressing f8 at bootup just allows me to choose what device to boot from (HD or DVD drive), so i cant get into safe mode.
i also think that it might ahve something to do with the DVD writing software that was installed before i received the machine, which has created a virtual DVD drive (vobid) i seem to remember this being mentioned in the first BSOD i got when i booted my machine up.
I ahve no floppy and no windows cd as mesh provide everything on one disc.
PC really did work fine for the first few months then now i cnt get windows to stay running for long enough to fix anything.
please help :(
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