INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

[Torriatte]

Hi Folks,

Have a Compaq Deskpro that is about 5 years old. One of our sites sent it in after getting the ole "Blue Screen of Death".

I fired it up and upon booting up it checks memory and then I get a Stop message and INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE and the "bunch of numbers", etc.

I searched via Gooble, here and other forums for an answer but came up empty.

I KNOW the drive is OK. I have Compaq Diagnostics diskette(s) and the whole system checks out OK.

I also can go into the Setup programs on the PC and everything shows OK there.

And I can boot from a DOS diskette and get to the hardrive OK and read, etc.

Apparently it is once it starts to load Windows from the harddrive that it gets this.

I understand from searching that there is a boot.ini file and that looks OK...

This is running Windows NT Pro with SP 6.

What am a missing ?

Thanks !

Chuck

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy:

Try the following..

http://www.osr.com/ddk/ddtools/bccodes_2gx3.htm

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/install/other/motherboard/problems.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q125933

Murray