bookie32

Hi folks! Been a while.....OK! I have a customer who couldn't get out on the Internet after a storm...he has ADSL for Internet. The first thing I checked was his modem and sure enough one of the lights wasn't working, so we went to our local computer store and bought a new modem. But that wasn't the problem solved...I tried to connect up to the modem but no connection info from ipconfig... I took a look at the back of the computer and no led's working on his inbuilt network ? OK! I find it hard to believe that the storm didn't take out the modem but managed to fry the network? Anyway, I have the computer at home and sure enough the bult in network isn't working....to top this the computer is really sluggish and now thowing BSOD's at me!!! The full BSOD is as follows: 0x0000007E (0X8248371E,0X82C53B20,0X2C5381C) At the moment I have it on mem test one module at a time to see if there is any faults in the memory. I am just wondering if it is worth buying a pci network card with the blue screen problems? Has anyone any thoughts on this for me? bookie32

Hi MrJinje I know where you are going with this....I will mark this thread as solved. BTW I followed this thread I then followed there advice and worked my to my boot sector on the windows dvd and ran the following: bootsect /nt60 SYS /mbr Now it works like a dream again! bookie32

Hi again Like I said - you do not leave a stone unturned and I appreciate you making me a little wiser....must get me one of those chargers...LOL I wonder what others willl make of bootsext.exe Thanks again mate! bookie32

Hi jaclaz How are you mate? Look some threads were quite good in mentioning that you must go to boot directory.... The following länk is the best I found and solve my dilemma.... http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/20864...oot-record.html But logic says that I should have looked on the dvd....!!!! I am going senile....LOL I do appreciate your quick reply and I am sorry the brain cells have been on recharge ....my charger not working....LOL Thanks for your info as usual brilliant! Anyway, all is well with the world again. You liked the bootsext.exe ....LOL bookie32

Hi guys and girls I am going quitely...sorry....very loudly insane here! I installed windows 7 on C: drive and then Ubuntu. I let Ubuntu install grub to mbr and was going to live with that---but my customer would like to see windows controlling boot order....simple I said ....done it least a hundred times before.......nada!! I booted from windows 7 and then chose command prompt for my repair of mbr. I then ran the following code which I have seen on a hundred theads: X:\Sources bootsext.exe /fixmbr I get information thrown at me about different usage of bootect.exe but no repair of mbr? Does anyone have any idea why? I have dualbooted a hundred differnt cominations and never had problems reinstating mbr before. bookie32

Hi guys Look shoot me down if I am in the wrong place...I have a customer who unfortunately had a friends, friend to build him a computer and it is a mess.... I have sorted out all the othe family members computers but have this one remaining and could need some advice... He started his computer today and it went into chkdsk mode and went through 1 and 2 OK but half way through 3 started to try and sort id problems out on the hard drive.... this was something new for me... My customer had left it rolling on the screen until I got there and I then discinnected a couple of other drives to make sure it wasn't them causing the problem....nada The main C drive seems to have some file problems. We could let it run its cycle but before I got there it had been running two hours.... I have now brought it home to try and save his files...the biggest problem is he has used outlook for his mail and hasn't copies on the server.... If I could login to windows..then I could export everthing and then sort out the rest later.... What I need to be able to do now is get into the computer and save the mails as well as general files... I can boot from many differen't media disks which will give me access to his general files but how do I save the e-mails etc. Is there anyone available who can give me some words of wisdom on a weekend... I am going to lend my customer a computer but he has these important e-mails etc. bookie32