Error Drive Not Ready System Halted
Contents |
Support Guy, we highly recommend that you visit our Guide for New Members. Boot up problem - "drive not ready - system halted" Discussion in 'All Other Software' started by Bondy111, Aug 19, 2008. Thread Status: system halted error dell Not open for further replies. Advertisement Bondy111 Thread Starter Joined: Jan 5, 2008 Messages: 124 Hi, fatal error system halted I bought a stone pc off the internet a couple of days ago, and when I boot it up, it just says "drive not fatal error system halted windows 7 ready-system halted". Its 20gb hdd, 128 mb RAM, (I think DDR-2) and im not sure if its running an OS. No cds came with it, and the disk drive is stuck. What should I do to fix it? I fatal error system halted hp mini took the top off, and checked to see of everything was plugged in, which it was, and blew the dust from within. Please help Bondy111, Aug 19, 2008 #1 Sponsor Elvandil Joined: Aug 1, 2003 Messages: 51,988 Check in BIOS setup. There is sometimes a setting to delay the boot process to give the drive time to initialize. Elvandil, Aug 19, 2008 #2 Bondy111 Thread Starter Joined: Jan 5, 2008 Messages: 124 Hi, thanks for your
Fatal Error System Halted Solution
post. How do you get to the BIOS set-up? The PC shows the Pentium 3 boot picture, and then says straight away, that the drive is not ready. thanks Bondy111, Aug 19, 2008 #3 Bondy111 Thread Starter Joined: Jan 5, 2008 Messages: 124 I have set the boot time to 30 secs, but when the intel screen is gone, it still has the same problem. I have tried putting all the settings back to default, and it still doesn't work. What next? Bondy111, Aug 19, 2008 #4 Elvandil Joined: Aug 1, 2003 Messages: 51,988 It's not the boot time that I was referring to. I'm assuming you made that change in Windows? When you boot the machine, is there a message to press some key to enter setup? BIOS Access Guide One in BIOS setup, look around for a delay setting for the drive. It usually has timing settings like 5 secs., 10 secs., etc., and just basically pauses the boot process for the drive to initialize. Not all BIOS have it. You could also just try hitting the Pause key on your keyboard during the very early stages of the boot process (then Enter to resume) just to see if that makes the drive accessible. But to be honest, new drives, at least, should not need any additional initialization time. So the drive may have problems, too. Does it make any difference i
to the Geek.com Forum Archive. This forum has been preserved for reference and is not active. Username: Password: Cancel Forgot Username /
Uncompression Error System Halted
Password? Forums > Geek.com Stuff > Drive Not ready-system halted "Drive system halted fatal error handling ibm Not ready-system halted" Started 6/15/2007 by admin in Geek.com Stuff Forum (4 posts) 1 how to fix system halted error 12/11/2002 (10:18 am) by admin Staff admin (24314 Posts) I have that error upon Boot-up. When that errors comes, I would just have to restart computer https://forums.techguy.org/threads/boot-up-problem-drive-not-ready-system-halted.741650/ and goes in to desktop. What is the cause of this? i ran the Maxtor's Powermax Diag tools and found no errors. What other component could give this error? What other things can I do to fix it? Thanks 2 12/11/2002 (6:40 pm) by John Edward Renfro Jr. John Edward Renfro J... (209 Posts) Reset http://www.geek.com/forums/topic/drive-not-ready-system-halted/ your BIOS to defaults. 3 12/12/2002 (12:35 pm) by admin Staff admin (24314 Posts) Most likely, your computer is trying to access the drive before it is ready. Let me know which OS you are running and I can give you the fix. Or you can read this article and add a bootdelay in your msdos.sys file. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;118579 4 10/15/2004 (12:07 am) by MARK A SPIVEY MARK A SPIVEY (1 Posts) I have that error upon Boot-up. When that errors comes, I would just have to restart computer and goes in to desktop. What is the cause of this? i ran the Maxtor's Powermax Diag tools and found no errors. What other component could give this error? What other things can I do to fix it? I AM USING WINDOW XP HOME About Contact Us Archives Glossary Forums Archive Advertise AdChoices PCMag.com ExtremeTech ComputerShopper Logicbuy Toolbox.com ziff davis © 1996-2013 Ziff Davis, Inc. Privacy Policy Terms of Use
Javascript Disabled Detected You currently have javascript disabled. Several functions may not work. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality. Error Msg - Drive not ready, System halted Started by Chickeedee79 https://forums.pcpitstop.com/index.php?/topic/115468-error-msg-drive-not-ready-system-halted/ , Apr 17 2006 06:55 PM Please log in to reply 4 replies to this topic #1 Chickeedee79 Chickeedee79 New Member Members 4 posts Posted 17 April 2006 - 06:55 PM Hi I am having http://www.techimo.com/forum/technical-support/226962-drive-not-ready-system-halted-error.html a problem loading my computer up. I have a intel pentium , operating system is windows 2000. When i start the computer up it goes through the process of starting then comes to a system halted black screen with the following information. PXE-MOF Exiting intel PXE Rom PXE-E61 Media test failure, Check cable. Drive not ready, System halted. Previously yesterday it loaded and the add new hardware screen popped up to add the ethernet, when i clicked on next to install it then said could not be located then jumped to the screen as above. The computer is roughly 4-5 years old, and was given to error system halted me by my mother in law for my children, so i would like to get it working so they can leave mine alone!! As far as the makeand model i am unsure and i cant get this info off the computer memory as it wont load. If their is any other way of determining this can someone let me know and i will locate it. The motherboard is a Intel Desktop Board with this number written under - D815EEA (not sure if this is the correct number or not). Any help with this prob is greatly appreciated. Thanks Back to top #2 Crusader Crusader Advanced Member Advanced Member 1,676 posts Location:Charlotte, N.C. Posted 17 April 2006 - 09:24 PM You might take a look at this: Computer Hope Back to top #3 Chickeedee79 Chickeedee79 New Member Members 4 posts Posted 18 April 2006 - 07:54 AM Well, i have followed the advise and now i no longer have error messages, i did replace the battery which has definetly made the computer faster. My problem now is when the computer is starting up i get as far as the screen where you press F1 for setup and it sits idle their for a long time then even
Hardware and Tech Technical Support Drive not Ready. system Halted Error + Reply to Thread Results 1 to 4 of 4 Thread: Drive not Ready. system Halted Error Thread Tools Show Printable Version Subscribe to this Thread… March 15th, 2009,10:28 PM #1 burnok100 View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries Junior Member Join Date Mar 2009 Posts 5 Drive not Ready. system Halted Error Hello All. This is my 2nd problem post. This is for my other PC I just cleaned the tower casing for some "dust and debris" that always going inside the case and fan blowers. Anyways, after done house cleaning, the PC won't boot, and displaying the message, Drive not ready. system Halted. I checked all the cables, and seems working fine. Checked the power supply. Im not sure if the power supply. So, I bought a new one. 500 Watts. The previous one is only 350W. Installed it, and still nothing wont boot. I decided to replace all the IDE cables. But still won't boot and displaying the same message. Checked the MoBo manual, I found that I have to replace the BIOS Battery if won't boot. Bought new battery. Reconfigured the bios to its default settings (boot via dvd), but Still the same message if i tried to boot via HDD. I decided to use a boot CD (from Hiren), I was able to boot using the CD and navigate into my drive C, and Partitions. Used the HDD Regenerator, and was able to de-frag and remove drive errors. Still won't boot on its HDD. So now, basically i already isolated some problems: not the power supply.. not the IDE cables.. not the front panel cables.. not the processor.. not the MoBo.. not the RAMs... i wonder if XP is the culprit..? I remember before we went home (from the office) there's this "windows update installing" at shut-down. I could not check the update as XP won't let me boot, and remove the damn KB. I was able to "manual" install a new XP, but i decided not to do it yet. any tips..? oopps.... my rig: - Windows XP pro - 512 SD-RAM (4x 128MB PC800) - 500W PS - Intel P4, 1.5 Mz - Intel DG850 Mobo - 64 MB Video Card (inno) - Seagate 80 GB HDD - 1x Sony CD-RW - 1x LG DVD-Rom - 1x 3.15 FDD thanks Burnok100 Last edited by burnok100; March 15th, 2009 at 10:33 PM. Reply Reply With Quote March 16th, 2009,09:51 PM #2 burnok100 View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries Junior Member Join Date Mar 2009 Posts 5 the mobo detec