In Bios I had raid disabled and a boot password set up. I have 2 disks, but one is Linux the other Windows. They are set up to dual boot.
I used the computer in the AM, then shut down...everything fine. A couple hours later rebooted and I noticed a message come up a few seconds later, then then windows started to boot and a flash of a blue screen, then the system started rebooting.
I now looked at the message that came up and it was the raid controller showing the 2 disks. So I hit F2 and went into the BIOS and found my raid enabled and my boot password disabled. I turned off the raid, but oddly could not select the option to set a boot password. I also noticed that the boot sequence was completely changed from my last settings.
Rebooting windows continued to fail, so I booted from CD and was able to do a chkdsk and get it so I could at least boot it again and back it up. My suspicion is that having raid enabled caused the problem with the disk. For grins I tried restoring the default bios but it didn't change the problem with the boot password.
So the current state is that the bios setup still won't let me set a boot password. I lost 3 .dlls in the chkdsk process and even after restoring them can't get Outlook to run. (It comes up but crashes when it tries to fetch the mail). The 3 dlls I lost were directdb.dll, inetcomm.dll and wab32res.dll.
So 2 questions:
1) Anyone ever seen the bios problem, and is this something that should go back to Sager?
2) Is there a way to re-install the OS without loosing all of my apps and data? Like is there a repair installation mode? (I'm not talking about the repair console). Or should I not bother to fix Windows now and focus on the Bios first?
Thanks..
I used the computer in the AM, then shut down...everything fine. A couple hours later rebooted and I noticed a message come up a few seconds later, then then windows started to boot and a flash of a blue screen, then the system started rebooting.
I now looked at the message that came up and it was the raid controller showing the 2 disks. So I hit F2 and went into the BIOS and found my raid enabled and my boot password disabled. I turned off the raid, but oddly could not select the option to set a boot password. I also noticed that the boot sequence was completely changed from my last settings.
Rebooting windows continued to fail, so I booted from CD and was able to do a chkdsk and get it so I could at least boot it again and back it up. My suspicion is that having raid enabled caused the problem with the disk. For grins I tried restoring the default bios but it didn't change the problem with the boot password.
So the current state is that the bios setup still won't let me set a boot password. I lost 3 .dlls in the chkdsk process and even after restoring them can't get Outlook to run. (It comes up but crashes when it tries to fetch the mail). The 3 dlls I lost were directdb.dll, inetcomm.dll and wab32res.dll.
So 2 questions:
1) Anyone ever seen the bios problem, and is this something that should go back to Sager?
2) Is there a way to re-install the OS without loosing all of my apps and data? Like is there a repair installation mode? (I'm not talking about the repair console). Or should I not bother to fix Windows now and focus on the Bios first?
Thanks..
