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overhaul · 07-07-2008, 09:02 AM

i have a dell 8200 with 128*2 rambus ram and a 30gig hard drive. not sure the processor(non celeron) but the pc is about 7 years old. Computer is running windows xp but freezes when service pack 2 is installed. I was going to re-install windows because barely anything will run without service pack 2(to clean malware and potential virus) but 50% of the time i get a "abort and retry" error message at boot up. When I check the bios is shows no IDE drives installed, no hard drive or cd rom drive. I receeded all ide drives but this does not fix the problem. If i unplug the power directly from the power supply this sometimes help getting back into windows. Could it be that im having a hardware failure.

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overhaul Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 8 OS: xp	hard drive failure i have a dell 8200 with 128*2 rambus ram and a 30gig hard drive. not sure the processor(non celeron) but the pc is about 7 years old. Computer is running windows xp but freezes when service pack 2 is installed. I was going to re-install windows because barely anything will run without service pack 2(to clean malware and potential virus) but 50% of the time i get a "abort and retry" error message at boot up. When I check the bios is shows no IDE drives installed, no hard drive or cd rom drive. I receeded all ide drives but this does not fix the problem. If i unplug the power directly from the power supply this sometimes help getting back into windows. Could it be that im having a hardware failure.