Major PC Malfunction

What is "Moading Gimes"?

[digitalghost]

I've never seen anything like this, I came back in after getting the mail, one of my PC's powered down, then rebooted. The uh-oh screen appeared asking me if I wanted to start up normally or in one of the various safemode options.

I left it on "normal" and waited for the clock to count down. When it reached "0" nothing happened. So I rebooted, and chose the "start in safe mode" option. It started loading then stopped, and rebooted.

ASR didn't work. So, I popped in the XP Pro CD and booted from the CD. At this point all I wanted to do was reload the OS, the problem is that the OS starts to load, then when it gets to the screen where I can actually restore defaults or reformat the drive, it shuts off.

While the OS is loading, some strange ASCII characters pop up, and the message "moading gimes" appears twice as the OS loads various drivers.

Never seen anything like this and I was wondering if anyone else had. A virus scan just 55 minutes prior to the crash didn't pick up any viruses and the firewall log doesn't show any access attempts or communication with that PC.

I isolated the PC from the network, let it sit overnight and fired it up this morning to watch the same thing occur. I'll drain the BIOS and install a new drive this weekend, I just wondered if anyone has encountered anything similar to this?

[edit_g]

I just wondered if anyone has encountered anything similar to this?

I've seen this on XP pro before on my home PC. No viruses, no probing and no overt problems.

It would get as far as asking me which safe mode I wanted to start up in and then, whatever I picked, it would hit the windows loading screen and immediately reeboot. I messed around in the bios for a while and tried to restore the system from two different backups.

I never did find out what caused it - but I did format the HD and install XP pro again - which worked just fine.

[digitalghost]

Thanks for the reply. Looks like I'm going to have to take the same route. I can't format from the XP Pro CD so I'll boot from FDisk, format and reinstall.

The SAN sitting in the corner is humming away nicely, providing reassaurance that I haven't lost all my data. ;)

[digitalghost]

Just a quick update, and this gets curiouser and curiouser.

Today, I planned on getting the PC up and running no matter what so I hit the power switch, and the PC booted up just fine. There was a system message stating that, "Windows Has Recovered From a Serious Error" Report this Error? Y/N?

After many attempts at wiping the drive and reinstalling the OS with no progress I had pretty much given up on it and planned to install Linux. That's still the plan, but it's odd that the system recovered. Oh well..

[caine]

regarding wiping the drive and re-installing

Key Point: Change the partition size

[digitalghost]

>>Change the partition size

I couldn't get that far, the system kept powering down. I don't know what's up, but all the diagnostics check out now and it seems to be running fine.

[caine]

weird. reset the bios to factory - then should allow you to get to the Win Format/Install/Partition screen

But if it works leave it. Don't know XP, still using W2K PRO

[werty]

The only time I have ever had the weird "keeps rebooting loop" was after I installed a WLAN card in my desktop...it worked fine with the card unplugged...with it plugged in it would do just as you said...the tech support could not do anything so I returned it.

Did windows maybe do one of its wonderful automatic "updates" , causing som ecrazy driver error? Or would it just rolllback if it experienced such an error?

My new laptop did not come with a XP Pro cd, just a restore cd(formats everything back to new)...so I need to be smart and create some backups...

[digitalghost]

The lifespan was short, twenty minutes. Flashing the BIOS did nothing. BFH is still an option. ;)

[dragonlady7]

>BFH

I/m just gonna be a noob and post to ask what that means. I've seen it a bunch of times and I just cannot quite grok it from context. :-/ I have a feeling it's something I oughta know.

[PatrickDeese]

BFH - big "freakin" hammer.

[dragonlady7]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh.... I get it.
^.^
That's excellent. I was casting about for an expression like that when my Win2KPro box's hard drive went belly-up messily two weeks ago. Now I have one.
Yay! Thanks! That's the best thing I've learned all day.

But I still want to know what the heck "Moading Gimes" means, besides "you're ****ed."

[mivox]

"Moading Grimes"

Weren't they gyring and gimbolling in the wabe with the Slithy Toves? Or were they outgrabe-ing with the Mome Wraths?

[dragonlady7]

I think they were gyreing and gimboling in the wabe. There may also have been chortling. I was merely wondering if any scientific research had been done into the etymology of either "moading" or "grimes"... as most of the other words in there have some venerable lineage in the Germanic language family. Not so with "moading" and I am skeptical of the relationship of "grimes" to its usual meaning relating to dirt or soot.

[mivox]

My bad... it's "Gimes" not "Grimes" it would seem. A Gime -- Moading or not -- definitely would not gyre, so they must have been chortling. Thanks for the hint!

That straighten it out for you DG? I always like to be helpful.

[digitalghost]

All straight now Mivox, thanks. ;)

I'll just start working on developing the Jabberwocky OS.

Then rested he by the tum-tum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

[edit_g]

If BFH doesn't work - you can always resort to BOFH. :)

[mivox]

No, I'm afraid this sounds like a situation in which only a Vorpal Blade will suffice.

[dragonlady7]

Snicker-snack!