From: philo@privcy.not   
      
   On 03/12/2013 10:26 PM, Grinder wrote:   
   > On 3/12/2013 8:13 PM, philo  wrote:   
   >> I was given a Gateway... XP Media Center machine to repair.   
   >>   
   >> It would not boot normally or to safe mode due to the SATA driver being   
   >> corrupted. (It blue-screened)   
   >>   
   >> I could not do a system restore as the owner was given no media...the   
   >> only choice was a factory restore which would have been a major PITA.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> After running diagnostics on the RAM and HD and finding all OK...   
   >>   
   >> I looked at the drive configuration in the BIOS and saw there was an   
   >> option to configure the SATA drives as IDE.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> It got past the point where it blue-screened and looked like it was   
   >> going to work OK but I got a message that it could not log me on to the   
   >> owner's profile and it was going to create a temporary profile.   
   >>   
   >> I was able to then log on, perform a System Restore   
   >> and all seems to be working fine now.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> The weird thing...in all the years I've been repairing computers...   
   >> I never saw a temporary profile being set up.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Just curious to see if anyone ran into that before?   
   >   
   > I've seen that before when the user profile is corrupted or if it is   
   > otherwise unavailable.  Say, for example, if it's being stored on a   
   > secondary drive that has failed.   
   >   
   >   
      
      
      
   Glad I was not the only one.   
      
   I have the machine up and running now with SATA set to IDE in the bios   
      
   Now I have to see if I can get the SATA drivers working   
      
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