Today i have just swapped cases with no hardware changes or anything.
When i go to boot it was coming up with the apologize screen select from safe mode etc. Everytime i selected an option it would just restart apart from once or twice it let me into safe mode for some od reason.
Once when i got in to safe mode i inserted my xp disk and tryed to "upgrade" the system so it would repair what ever might of been wrong not to lose any data i already had on my pc. It did what it had to do at first and then rebooted to contiue then i was getting m5228.sys is corrupted please press any key to restart. So then i thought my xp cd was bad.
I then tryed to load in the ultimate boot and recover cd and when i tryed to run it (cd is my first option for boot right now) it would just be like it was when i was trying to install xp go to "checking system config" then come up with the m5228.sys is corrupted please press any key to restart thing.
Realy dont want to lose any data as all my univeristy work is on it. Its a sata connection also btw.
Any help appreciated thank you.
Jamie.
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Tried new copy of xp, went through loading all the files then got stuck on the windows setup blue screen, saying "setup is starting windows".
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the corrupt file is the ALi ATA RAID Controller Driver, so i guess i will try and located the driver and install it, any one can tell me how to install a driver for the motherboard as obv i am not able to get into the os, thanks.