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General Mach Discussion / Re: 8877 and 9991 error on startup.
« on: June 24, 2011, 12:59:17 PM »
Thanks for the reply. I remember (now) seeing another issue somewhere that had that as a part of the troubleshooting.
I ened up going another route. I used a smaller hard drive and started a fresh install of XP. This is now my dedicated machine so this was a good route anyway(I could reclaim the larger hard drive). During the process I found out that I had a bad CD drive and it was making me have some very bad errors with my bios. I don't know if it was draging down data lines or just not cooperating. After getting a good DVD drive installed I went back to the old drive to see if that was the issue. No, it wasn't. So I continued with the install on the new hard drive. Everything is running well now so if it was a hardware issue it would have been that CD drive.
I'm happy that it's working well and it seams that I have an ideal setup. Unfortunately, I'll never put the old drive back in it so I'll never know if the drivers where the real issue.
Thanks again,
Shawn
I ened up going another route. I used a smaller hard drive and started a fresh install of XP. This is now my dedicated machine so this was a good route anyway(I could reclaim the larger hard drive). During the process I found out that I had a bad CD drive and it was making me have some very bad errors with my bios. I don't know if it was draging down data lines or just not cooperating. After getting a good DVD drive installed I went back to the old drive to see if that was the issue. No, it wasn't. So I continued with the install on the new hard drive. Everything is running well now so if it was a hardware issue it would have been that CD drive.
I'm happy that it's working well and it seams that I have an ideal setup. Unfortunately, I'll never put the old drive back in it so I'll never know if the drivers where the real issue.
Thanks again,
Shawn