Guy's
My son fires up the box and some how managed to knock the plug out of the outlet as it booted, he plugs back in, now I'm sure this was more like the
powers on, the powers off, it's back on type of thing. So, the box won't
boot into slayers any more, just the M$ dash. I figured the bios banks might
have gotten screwed so I reload the the same bios to different banks, doesn't
appear as thou anything will load to banks 3&4. I upgrade from 1.1 OS to 2.2 OS.
Now all the bios banks will flash and boot properly. Still will not boot into slayer's
dash, have used bios that did work and came off of slayer's 2.5, have tried ones
off of 2.6, always starts M$ dash. So now I figure I'll reload slayers becuase the
.xbe file must be shot, load up the 2.5 disk that I had first used when I loaded it.
After the flubber the screen hangs then very very slowly slayers installer starts
to fade in. It will respond to the controller but so slowly that it's useless. Does
the same thing with 2.5 & 2.6. What I did notice on the installer screen was the
HD sizes listed for the C: as 234.xxx.xxx, E: as 2.xxx.xxx.xxx, F: & G: both show
0. This is a 120gig drive and that E: is not a type-o, the F: drive is full of data.
I'm thinking slayers installer won't load becuase it's seeing this wacked HD.
So I go for the FTP thing through the xenium OS, get right in with flashFXP, all
the drives are there with nothing in them, even the D: is empty witha disk in it,
I thought that to be strange. I didn't think of trying to move some files over to
see if the drive could be wrote to. I did notice when flashing the bios banks that
I could look through all the drives and could see all the data that was on the drive. I did wipe the caches and that didn't work, only thing left that I see is a "repair HD upgrade" in the OS, will this wipe the HD clean with full data loss? What ya guy's think about this one?
Merry Xmas All
Bruce