Basically, I took the computer completely apart to clean every bit of dust I could get to.

I get 'er back together, and now it doesn't want to boot WinXP. I have a RAID 1 array, and I unplugged everything (drives too), but I made sure to plug everything back the same. The only difference is that I put my memory in the other two slots (not the same slots as before; easier).

Now it doesn't seem to recognize the boot sector of either my array or the other WinXP install on another hard drive (the old one).

I booted from my WinXP CD and fixed the master boot record of each drive via recovery console, and everything booted up fine. Today, however, back to the old shenanigans. Do i need to rebuild my RAID array or something?

12/26/2006 10:03:47 PM

to my knowledge, it's always bad news when you fill memory slots out of order (slot 1 needs to be filled before slot 2, etc.)

since you took it all apart to clean it, i suggest reseating everything, and putting it all back exactly as it was before...it could just be a simple loose connection

[Edited on December 26, 2006 at 11:10 PM. Reason : .]

12/26/2006 10:45:16 PM