- #I LOST MY WINDOWS XP MEDIA CENTER EDITION 2005 CD HOW TO#
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- #I LOST MY WINDOWS XP MEDIA CENTER EDITION 2005 CD MANUAL#
Still a little overwhelmed with all the tools - going slow with that. Completed an extended memory test - came out fine. (Yeah!!!!) except - it's a little overwhelming the amount of diagnostic tools.
#I LOST MY WINDOWS XP MEDIA CENTER EDITION 2005 CD MANUAL#
) keyboard and mouse run fine here.ĭell manual also has 4 indicator lights on the front for diagnostics, at the place where the boot fails, all are off, not an indication of a problem, but not the ideal state.ĭownloaded Ultimate Boot CD - Able to boot the machine on that. Under boot options (you don't control the boot sequence in the Bios/set-up directly, you press F12) there was "boot to utility partition" This opened another set of hardware utility diagnostics - ran them all, all came out good (test memory, test system, test hard drive. Started playing with the diagnostics built in - F8 during boot brought up an additional "debugging mode" option. (it was ERD 2003, doh, to me.) (I love ERD by the way.) An error came up that it was incompatible. same issue as above.Īttempted to use an old ERD disk to boot. Disk booted, started, after attempting to go to recover- got an error about incompatibility - not able to go any further w/ cd.Īttempted the same from a spare (legal, unused) Xp-home disk. Tried booting from a spare (legal, unused) XP-pro disk to bring up recover. (and if hardware ruled out - will want to attempt to recover any data first - move drive to another PC as slave if needed) want to save that option for close to last.
#I LOST MY WINDOWS XP MEDIA CENTER EDITION 2005 CD HOW TO#
User was not supplied WIN XP MCE05 disk - so no recovery option - searched the net and can't seem to find any win XP MCE specific recovery tools.Ĭhecked dell OEM Manual on line - found out how to do a factory restore from boot (off the partition). Safe mode to command prompt: blank screen I've read many places that windows Safe Mode doesn't support USB - so I'm not sure how owner was able to run safe mode the first time. Reboot and checked BIOS settings - no "legacy" setting for USB, but there are USB settings and they are all set to "on" Neither mouse nor Keyboard function (though both are clearly getting power - light indicator on keyboard - laser on optical mouse illuminates.) He did, no viruses reported.Īttempted to boot in safe mode without networking, get the safe mode 4 corners on black screen, then log in page. Does run windows automatic updates in the background) I asked him to boot to safe mode and run virus scan.
User says no new software was loaded on machine prior, says problem never occurred before. System is in warranty for 20 more days as of post - I am helping out a friend - it is not my computer.ĭetailed Description of problem and current attempts to troubleshoot No PS/2 PCI for mouse or keyboard - only USB
#I LOST MY WINDOWS XP MEDIA CENTER EDITION 2005 CD SERIAL#
Hard Drive, 320GB, S2, 7.2K, 16M Unleaded, Seagateĭvd+/-rw, 16, Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Serial Ata Windows Xp, MCE05U (Media Center Edition 2005) video card/drivers is my next check, but I don't know how - plz read on why.) (yes, I've read the sticky post on boot issues. On Boot - computer completes Post, brings up windows XP Media Center Edition Splash, then goes blank. I've been reading for the past few days trying to resolve my system issues myself - I think it's time to post.