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Services Lost After Crash - Vista

by lemaech56 May 14, 2012 5:34PM PDT

Dear Forum,

This is a very strange one. On 5/5, my Vista Ultimate 32-Bit desktop suffered a catastrophic failure. After several attempts to determine root cause - booting respectively from Vista, XP Pro SP3, Win7 Home Premium, and many other boot disks failed, except WipeDrive 6 (WD6) - failed. After booting from WD6, I ran verification on "C" drive, and it failed all tests. I can't claim complete surprise, since that drive always exhibited strange behavior like periods of high pitch buzzing. Fortunately, I cloned the drive when XP was the active system. I swapped failed drive with the clone, and the system rebooted to XP. After 1.5 days, all software is up to date.

However, there are 3 outstanding problems - MB is ABIT IP35 Pro:

1. The Creative SB Live! Sound card no longer works.
2. There also is no audio from the 7.1 Chan. HD from MB.
3. A PCI based card with 5 USB ports doesn't work.

Both #1 & #2 worked fine under Vista. Item #3 is new with WinXP Pro.

While I still plan to upgrade to Win7, I prefer to stick with XP for at least another month or until the system stabilizes. Any advice on cause of issues above will be welcome. Thanks for your support.

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Re: XP

by Kees_B Forum moderator May 14, 2012 5:56PM PDT

Seems like that XP that you cloned back doesn't contain the right drivers. Did you check Device Manager?

Was that clone made on exactly the same hardware as the machine has now? Did it work when you made that clone? If both answers are yes, it should work now also.

Kees

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Re: XP - New!

by lemaech56 May 15, 2012 4:21PM PDT

The clone was made on exactly the same hardware. Further, the hard drive is an identical Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA. The clone target was housed in an external enclosure via USB 2.0 to the desktop and SATA internally to the drive.

I did not check the clone, i.e., use it to boot my desktop until the recent failure. Also, the Sound Card isn't detected by WinXp according to Device Manager. Do you think it would be safe to load the original MB (chipset) and Creative Sound Card drivers from the original CDs? Again, except for no sound and PCI based USB 2.0 card that doesn't function everything else works well, including the USB ports on the MB and the PCI 2.0 x16 NVidia Graphics card.

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