(fixed) Windows7 Startup Repair offline

jaf · July 05, 2011, 04:37:13 PM

Did you try changing the cables as Kadri mentioned? I had a second Sata driver that would suddenly "lock-up" -- the activity light was always on. I eventually found I had to re-seat the Sata cable and it would be fine.

This kept happening after a couple weeks and I finally swapped the cable out and haven't seen the problem for over a year.

When it failed, chkdsk would usually report a problem, but not always.

Zairyn Arsyn · July 17, 2011, 02:49:05 PM

hey, i've been on vacation for the past week, family reunion beach trip, but im back now...

yeah, went in & i changed the sata cables, and plugged it into another different sata port, same thing happend, startup repair.

Zairyn Arsyn · August 04, 2011, 10:31:22 AM

-Update-

my PC is working again, and the files on the hard drive are safe

i installed a new hard drive and installed win 7 64bit on it.

inkydigit · August 04, 2011, 10:43:01 AM

yay!

Zairyn Arsyn · August 04, 2011, 10:47:25 AM

another update
i should have sandy bridge system in a week or so, once i get that i'll start rendering with TG2 again

inkydigit · August 04, 2011, 12:59:18 PM

nice one, look forward to that!

TheBadger · August 06, 2011, 04:27:33 AM

Convert to mac

TheBadger · August 06, 2011, 04:41:23 AM

Just teasing

Sorry

Zairyn Arsyn · August 07, 2011, 03:07:06 PM

Quote from: TheBadger on August 06, 2011, 04:27:33 AM
Convert to mac

Quote from: TheBadger on August 06, 2011, 04:41:23 AM
Just teasing Sorry

actually i already converted to mac, once, but i converted back to PC again.

Kadri · August 07, 2011, 03:27:15 PM

Quote from: zaai999 on August 07, 2011, 03:07:06 PM
actually i already converted to mac, once, but i converted back to PC again.

Why? Just curious , zaai999!

Zairyn Arsyn · August 08, 2011, 09:46:00 AM

I had a iMac G4, 800mhz, 512mb ddr ram, Nvidia geforce MX 32mb of vram.

i switched back to PC for several reasons. but it mainly it was a hardware/cost issue.

I liked using Mac OSX, but i did'nt like their computers/hardware, or the way they were making some of their computers.
-fewer GPU choices (one or two Nvidia/ATi cards)
-hardly any workstation (quadro/fireGL) GPUs supported
-no DirectX

after a couple years of using the iMac i felt it was a little too intragrated for me, or for future system i would buy.
the mac workstation towers were too expensive for me too.

Kadri · August 08, 2011, 12:04:14 PM

Thanks , Zaai999

It is good to hear opinions from users who know 2 sides!

neon22 · August 12, 2011, 10:42:30 PM

Perhaps also consider using raid1 for your main disk drive. As the sizes get bigger the MTBFs are dropping a bit. I find that raid1 (disk duplication) gives me some more fault tolerance and is supported in bios of many new motherboards. Extra disk cost is quite reasonable even if its a TB.

TheBadger · August 13, 2011, 12:37:51 AM

Sorry to hijack, but, I had seen (long while ago now) a website selling custom macs. from what I remember they were OSX with mac architecture, but really pimped out. Sorry cant remember the details, basically a mac brain with better guts. Anyone have an idea what site Im referring too? I have tried to find it but with no luck. Should have thought better of it when a friend showed me the site.
And I believe they where still covered under applecare.

I just hate windows so much, its like microsoft just does not give a shit.

Zairyn Arsyn · August 18, 2011, 03:43:35 PM

hmmm...

i wonder if apple forced them to go out of business.

i wonder if it was actual mac manufactured hardware or or PC brand componets, i.e. evga, asus, gigabyte...
i recall something that was a a little less-legit, there was a guy selling modified PC based Nvidia cards for the Mac OSX architecture

i'd like to fully switch to a linux distro. but spme of the 3d/graphical programs i use are mainly for PC (revit, maya, 3DS Max, TG2, lightwave3d etc, etc.)

my current computer is still ok, sometime next week i should have a superfast sandy bridge system