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Problem restoring MBR Sector
I have a dell dimension 4700 operating system windows xp professional.
I used a third party tool to "clean" the hard drive.
After re-installing the operating system, I have a NIC failure. Then I noticed another problem in my research, which is related. "Problem restoring MBR Sector". How and is it possible to get this fixed?
Thanks
AlanKS
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August 14th, 2008 20:00
nidhin0816
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August 14th, 2008 21:00
Shut down the computer.
Disconnect all external devices..
Disconnect the power cord and do a flea power on the computer by holding down the power button for about 30-40 seconds
connect back the power cord and start the computer..go to BIOS by pressing f2 at the dell screen.
and go to maintenance option..and do a load defaults.After that do the floppy settings from the drive options and disable it if there is no floppy drive and then press ESC and select save changes and exit.
The computer will restart check for any error msgs. If it boots cleanly without any error msgs the MBR on the Hard Disk Drive is perfect. If it doesnot Then you will have to run a test on the HDD from the dell diags utility under the f12 boot menu and going into utility partition and selecting custom test and sleceting Hard Drive.
If Hard Drive passes tests, The only thing you need to do is.. Do a Debug on harddrive using the resource cd and do a clean Windows reinstall again. Everything will be working fine.
If still you get the NIC failure. Then run a test on your MOBO from the same f12 utility. if it passes. still NIC don't work, Then u still have the option of purchasing a PCI network ethernet card to fix the issue rather than going for a mobo.
Hope This fixes your issue.
barretld
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August 15th, 2008 15:00
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August 16th, 2008 00:00
Whoa!
Did you install ALL the hardware drivers after installing XP? The correct installation order for this system is:
XP
Desktop System Software (System Utilities)
Chipset Driver
Video Driver
Audio Driver
Network Driver
etc.
If you didn't install both the chipset and network driver, the NIC won't work. And if you didn't install them in the correct order, you can have problems too. ;)
All of the drivers for this system are here.
Ron