Virii?

[ArnoldLLerch]

Whilst booting Cousin Gail's old Compaq with the Seagate Ontrack DiskManager diskette, I encountered the following message: ("Unknown INT21 Detected AX=6701 BX=2052 CX=0000 DX=20AA SI=0000 DI=1098 BP=C6B8 SP=C6B2 CS=099C BS=20AA SS=20AA ES=20AA IP=00FB LAGS=0046 ODI DEBUG-")

Any ideas on this one. The computer will boot into windozzzzzzz but will not boot into DOS from a diskette of any kind. Tried Ontrack, PC Trend PC-Cillin, Win98 Boot disk and.....nothing!

ARNi LEE
Waiting for FMD

[Axel]

what kind of machine did the old drive come out of? This looks a bit like trying to put a former NT drive on a non NT machine and the OS doesn't have a clue what to do with the NTFS file format or something......

That's just a guess.....

[ArnoldLLerch]

No, this is a Compaq with the Compaq OEM Seagate Hard Drive. This machine has been running for 6 months with a clean install of win98se. All of a sudden it up and quit the Internet Explorer 5.5! This is the message I got when I decided to use the Ontrack Disk Manager for Seagate to do a low level format. It won't boot to the OnTrack StandAlone OS. NOW I'm going to try a different Hard Drive.

ARNi LEE
Waiting for FMD

[This message has been edited by ArnoldLLerch (edited 04-04-2001).]

[randy48]

Arni, Compaq has a proprietary partition on the first few sectors of the hard drive, i9t needs this to boot! You'll have to use a restore utility/disk from them to fix it!

[ArnoldLLerch]

This problem begins before the boot sequence.
The screen where F10 would normally appear has a series of hearts, diamonds, and spade characters across the bottom, it then counts the RAM, posts to the floppy drive and suspends at a blank screen. I know that someone out there has the information as to what this means-("Unknown INT21 Detected AX=6701 BX=2052 CX=0000 DX=20AA SI=0000 DI=1098 BP=C6B8 SP=C6B2 CS=099C BS=20AA SS=20AA ES=20AA IP=00FB LAGS=0046 ODI DEBUG-"). My personal instinct is that this is a virus signature, however, my expertise is in
hardware assembly not program. I can follow instructions real good for loading pre-written programs and do troubleshooting using 3rd party software. If you delete the 8MB Compaq Rompaq partition it only means you have no direct access to the board BIOS on older model Compaqs. Pentium II level machines address the BIOS directly without a proprietary partition on the Hard Disk Drive. On my LAN one of the machines is a Compaq Deskpro PII-333MHz machine (No partition for Rompaq). The machine in question is late edition Compaq Deskpro Pentium 233 Socket 7 board which was still using that method. The problem here is, that even if I wanted to put the Rompaq back on the hard drive, I would have to delete the primary DOS partition in order to make room for that one, boot from the Compaq diskette (which I have done 20 times or so now on other machines) then create a primary DOS partition, format, etc. it won't let me boot to diskette of any style. C'mon all you "Ultimate Members" let's have a little feedback.

ARNi LEE
Waiting for FMD

[ArnoldLLerch]

[ArnoldLLerch]

[ArnoldLLerch]

Hey, hi there. Is anyone awake in here?

ARNi LEE
Waiting for FMD

[ArnoldLLerch]

[ArnoldLLerch]

[ArnoldLLerch]

Thanks Voogru.

[This message has been edited by ArnoldLLerch (edited 04-09-2001).]

[voogru]