Blue Screen, RAID 1 Degreaded, etc etc etc

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by weberms, May 3, 2009.

  1. weberms

    weberms Private E-2

    Ok, here is another one I cant figure out. A while back I post a problem regarding a blue screen of death I was getting, located here

    I was not able to resolve that incident, but a couple scans (one on board with windows and one from my hdd manufacturer) said that the harddrive did not have any damaged sectors. I was able to get on and backup my data using a Knoppix Live DVD, so I figured I'd just give up and reinstall windows starting from scratch.

    At the same time I did that I reformatted the hdd and mirrored it with another drive (exact match) using the on board RAID utility from Marvell.

    I have lasted about 5 months with no significant issues, then a couple days ago I left the room with my computer on, and when I came back it was in the process of restarting. I was able to get on, but only a couple time after that.

    Every time my computer restarted it showed my Raid 1 drives as being degraded, as indicated by this screen:
    http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5031/dscf2855i.th.jpg

    I did get on a couple times, and once I tried to hit Cntr/Alt/Del and I received this message on my screen (it wouldn't show me the task manager screen at all):
    http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2375/dscf2859c.th.jpg

    I got on about 4 times before I wasn't able to get on again. Every time I go to log on, I get the windows loading bar, then I get this blue screen (for about a split second), then it restarts:
    http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/7197/dscf2856c.th.jpg

    I tried putting in my windows disk and repairing my windows logon and it was not able to see either my OS or my hdds. Here are a couple of the screen I got going that route:
    http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7148/dscf2867y.th.jpg
    http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/8064/dscf2868o.th.jpg

    Finally, I decided I needed to see if there was anything I needed to backup so I used my magic Knoppix Live CD/DVD to get on hoping to have access to my hdds. However, even though I got on using Knoppix, the screen flashed the startup screen about 40 times (2-3 times per second) before finally loading, and when I got there I didn't have access to the drives at all.

    To sum up I am adding a few of my current BIOS screen shots. Please let me know if there is any other information you need:
    http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/356/dscf2866bxt.th.jpg
    http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/804/dscf2865f.th.jpg
    http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/262/dscf2863c.th.jpg
    http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/1995/dscf2862d.th.jpg


    Thanks in advance for any help. Sorry for the long post but I wanted to make sure you knew everything I did. My main question is what is wrong and how do I fix it... I've pretty much given up on recovering my info, unless someone here is a magician.

    weberms

    PS- Sorry for the manual pictures of my screens, but this was the best way I could think of to show you whats happening.
     

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