can't boot WinXP or R&R
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:59 am
hello,
a couple of months ago I bought Lenovo Thinkpad X60s. It is a great machine but recently I started to have some problems with Windows (I just guess that it's some worms/viruses/trojans). I decided to do recovery discs (1CD + 1DVD). It worked smoothly.
I have an external DVD drive LITE-ON DVDRW SHM-165P6S connected through USB. I put the first cd in the dirve. BIOS recognized the cd and started the boot. After a second I saw the message (it is very fast so I dont know the full message) "Setup is recognizing your configuration.." and after that I have a black screen. The drive stops to read the cd.
I checked with another windows XP install cd (original from work, freshly unwrapped) and it was the same reaction - black screen.
I thought it is a memory so I exchanged but nothing happend, still black screen just after the boot. I checked AHCI and Compatibility mode. I checked couple different cd kinds (from verbatim, sony to some noname). I checked the a different DVD drive. different USB cable.
All the time the same reaction after the boot - black screen.
Now I have also the problems with ethernet. I can't connect through it by creating WAN port (PPPoE). I always get "Not known or internal error". everything fully updated.
But this is not the most strange thing
Everything works like a charm under Linux - starting from booting (Knoppix, kubuntu, ubuntu, slax and many others) and finishing on the ethernet and PPPoE.
Can somebody help me? I wrote to ibm/lenovo a request but now it's more than a week and they still haven't contacted with me (except the server response).
I know that I could work under linux but I need to create some application also under windows and I'm forced to recover Windows.
does anybody has a clue what's going on with my machine?
regards,
Kamil
ps. with the faulty machine i bought another one exactly the same and the boot process works with the same drive without problems.
a couple of months ago I bought Lenovo Thinkpad X60s. It is a great machine but recently I started to have some problems with Windows (I just guess that it's some worms/viruses/trojans). I decided to do recovery discs (1CD + 1DVD). It worked smoothly.
I have an external DVD drive LITE-ON DVDRW SHM-165P6S connected through USB. I put the first cd in the dirve. BIOS recognized the cd and started the boot. After a second I saw the message (it is very fast so I dont know the full message) "Setup is recognizing your configuration.." and after that I have a black screen. The drive stops to read the cd.
I checked with another windows XP install cd (original from work, freshly unwrapped) and it was the same reaction - black screen.
I thought it is a memory so I exchanged but nothing happend, still black screen just after the boot. I checked AHCI and Compatibility mode. I checked couple different cd kinds (from verbatim, sony to some noname). I checked the a different DVD drive. different USB cable.
All the time the same reaction after the boot - black screen.
Now I have also the problems with ethernet. I can't connect through it by creating WAN port (PPPoE). I always get "Not known or internal error". everything fully updated.
But this is not the most strange thing
Everything works like a charm under Linux - starting from booting (Knoppix, kubuntu, ubuntu, slax and many others) and finishing on the ethernet and PPPoE.
Can somebody help me? I wrote to ibm/lenovo a request but now it's more than a week and they still haven't contacted with me (except the server response).
I know that I could work under linux but I need to create some application also under windows and I'm forced to recover Windows.
does anybody has a clue what's going on with my machine?
regards,
Kamil
ps. with the faulty machine i bought another one exactly the same and the boot process works with the same drive without problems.