won't boot.

[Spawn-Inc]

ok so i have an old computer and it was on during a storm and the power went out (not surged) for a second and it restarted and when it booked back up it gave a blue screen and said UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME with a bunch of stuff under it like

if this is the first time restart yada yada yada

then it said if you installed new hardware (which i didn't) then uninstall it.

anyhoo i've had this happen before (or thats what my dad says) and it's resolved it self iver time. i was never there to see it happen. so i was messing around in bios and i started to overclock the cpu to see what would happen and i went from 100MHz (not the total what gets multiplied i think) i went to 105 then restarted and it said it was 1.68GHz. then i went to 110 and it said 1.76GHz. then i for a laugh i set it to max at 200 and it won't load up now, anything. what happened and how do i fix?

i'm thinking i have to pull out the battery for a couple of minutes.

Edit 800th post !

[Bucko]

I've had that bhappen before on my AMD Athon. I removed the battery for a while and disconnected the PSU, then booted it up again.
some boards will revert back to stable setting in the bios if it doesn't boot 3 times in a row too.

[Spawn-Inc]

ahh i only tried to boot up twice. i will go try a third else take the bat out. thanks for fast reply

ps. nice 7th rep box, i guess now that minty's gone ur hogging'em all

[Bucko]

It may take the 4th boot to actually work after 3 failed boots.

I panicked a little when it happened to me. Then removed the battery when I calmed down. It was after a few boots it came good, then I got out the MoBo manual and saw the 3 failed tries reboot thing and it was all good.

[Spawn-Inc]

well i've ended up trying 6 times i think. right not the batt is out and psu unplugged. also did you put the battery back in before you booted up or after it was fixed?

[Bucko]

I put it back in before I booted it.

[Spawn-Inc]

ok so taking out the battery worked so thanks for confiriming that + rep. now the other more important(now ayway) problem. i get this message any idea what to do?

hmm now that i've just fully read that i am gonna try pressing and try to enter safe mode that way instead of letting it go to that

Safe mode
safemode Network
safemode (whatever it says)


Last know good.

Start Normal

[Luke122]

Father in law just had the same error on his PC. SMART monitoring gave an error code 7.. dying hdd. However, you can get the same error from a corrupt sector.

If you can get to safe mode with command prompt, try running a chkdsk /f.

If not, you'll need to boot with another CD, and try some hdd utils. Spinrite is a great one.

[Spawn-Inc]

what would happen if i turned off SMART in bois would it boot then? and once i learn about Spinrite which version should i use 5 or 6?

[Cannibal23]

you may also get this error message when a portion of your file system is damaged. wich in this case makes sense. when a pc is powerd off improperly it may be in the middle of a disk write or some other state that could cause file system corruption. if you have another pc, i would try this.

take the drive out of the one that your haveing an issue with and hook it up as a seccond drive in another pc. preferably something thats running an opperating system thats about the same age. so putting a 2000 drive into and xp box will still work. anyways. boot the machine and run a scan disk. on the drive. let it fix whatever errors it finds. put it back in the machine you were haveing trouble with and see if it boots (try safe mode first). if that dosent work out let me know as i have a seccond solution for you as well