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So I've got bit of a problem, let me explain some back story. We bought a new house with a security camera system, that according to my knowledge uses analog cameras, but less about the system more about the pc. So the previous owners said that they never used the system because they couldn't get the computer to work. So now that we have the house I decided to take a look at whats wrong. But with the minimum knowledge of fixing computers (really isn't alot) I tried my best but failed. So that's the backstory lets to get to problem.
Firstly, its quite an old pc. It has a msi n1996 motherboard, pentium processor. DDR2 ram (not sure how much but if I remember what I saw in the BIOS correctly it's probably 2Gb). The system has a DVR card in with 2 extension cards as well (for more ports on the DVR card, they connect to the DVR card not to the motherboard). Now the problem is, the pc won't boot, when I start it up, it beeps once (according to INTEL it only means that the pc can now receive input) then it goes into the motherboard logo and then the BIOS test (think that's what it's called) runs and it skips straight to the screen that says the windows failed to load, a hardware change could have caused it. I pressed the repair, but that only loaded the files then black screen. After that I restarted it to try the start normally, it then booted till the Starting Windows logo came on with that bar at the bottom that has to load, but that bar never loads :/. Then I decided to try run it in safe mode and it started to run different lines of code but stopped at the system32\Drivers\Mup.sys , so I tried a few solutions I could fine online, but many of them recommended I use the installation cd......... I don't have the installation CD, I completely forgot to mention, this all happened on the HDD that has windows xp on it. Then I replaced the HDD with another HDD I had laying around, but this time it had windows 7 on it. So I started with a normal boot, it booted the same untill the point it asked me to start normally or start repair. I started normal, windows booted until it started to say Starting Windows, with the windows logo about to load, but freezes as soon as the first colour starts to form. I then tried to run the repair but it also got stuck, but at the classpnp.sys. So at that point I no longer knew what to do and started searching around for different possibliltys. I found something somewhere suggesting that it could be the floppy disk that was installed, so I removed that and it still didn't boot. So I triedd installing a fresh copy of windows 7 on the HDD but the installation doesn't want to BOOT either, windows 10 also doesn't want to boot the installer.
So I have no idea what to try next, I need to get on the windows xp on the first HDD btw. I mainly need to find out what software they are using for the security system and if I can install it on a later version of windows. If anyone has an idea I'm willing to try. Let me know if you need any more information that I didn't give.
Thank you very much for reading everything
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So I've got bit of a problem, let me explain some back story. We bought a new house with a security camera system, that according to my knowledge uses analog cameras, but less about the system more about the pc. So the previous owners said that they never used the system because they couldn't get the computer to work. So now that we have the house I decided to take a look at whats wrong. But with the minimum knowledge of fixing computers (really isn't alot) I tried my best but failed. So that's the backstory lets to get to problem.
Firstly, its quite an old pc. It has a msi n1996 motherboard, pentium processor. DDR2 ram (not sure how much but if I remember what I saw in the BIOS correctly it's probably 2Gb). The system has a DVR card in with 2 extension cards as well (for more ports on the DVR card, they connect to the DVR card not to the motherboard). Now the problem is, the pc won't boot, when I start it up, it beeps once (according to INTEL it only means that the pc can now receive input) then it goes into the motherboard logo and then the BIOS test (think that's what it's called) runs and it skips straight to the screen that says the windows failed to load, a hardware change could have caused it. I pressed the repair, but that only loaded the files then black screen. After that I restarted it to try the start normally, it then booted till the Starting Windows logo came on with that bar at the bottom that has to load, but that bar never loads :/. Then I decided to try run it in safe mode and it started to run different lines of code but stopped at the system32\Drivers\Mup.sys , so I tried a few solutions I could fine online, but many of them recommended I use the installation cd......... I don't have the installation CD, I completely forgot to mention, this all happened on the HDD that has windows xp on it. Then I replaced the HDD with another HDD I had laying around, but this time it had windows 7 on it. So I started with a normal boot, it booted the same untill the point it asked me to start normally or start repair. I started normal, windows booted until it started to say Starting Windows, with the windows logo about to load, but freezes as soon as the first colour starts to form. I then tried to run the repair but it also got stuck, but at the classpnp.sys. So at that point I no longer knew what to do and started searching around for different possibliltys. I found something somewhere suggesting that it could be the floppy disk that was installed, so I removed that and it still didn't boot. So I triedd installing a fresh copy of windows 7 on the HDD but the installation doesn't want to BOOT either, windows 10 also doesn't want to boot the installer.
So I have no idea what to try next, I need to get on the windows xp on the first HDD btw. I mainly need to find out what software they are using for the security system and if I can install it on a later version of windows. If anyone has an idea I'm willing to try. Let me know if you need any more information that I didn't give.
Thank you very much for reading everything
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