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My Project arcade wont turn on ... NOOOOO!
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RayB:
Well, what I want to know is if you USED to have sound or not. If you never had it, and this is your last piece of the puzzle, then all you probably need is drivers.

If it used to work and now it stopped, and you get boot up problems, then something probably got corrupted on the hard drive.

I'd start by booting 2 or 3 times to see if the problem "goes away".

If it doesn't, a scan of the HD would be good, or even try a reformat and fresh OS install I guess. All depends on how much stuff you have on your HD that you don't want to lose. If there's nothing you care about, then go for a format.
Pioneer:
I've never had sound so I bet it is driver problems... Thant's easy.
ok

I hope it's not the hard drive
Even though there's nothing on it except XP and MAME
It takes forever to reformat, intall 98, then xp update.  Arrrg.

I've already booted about a dozen times, but I'll try again today

Thanks Bro.

JoyMonkey:
It's probably just a bad sector. I'd try booting from a live cd with ntfs support like one made with Barts PE Builder and run checkdisk.

The same thing keeps happening to my aunts laptop and this is how I fix it each time (she just won't learn how to turn it off safely).

Edit: Actually, since this is a desktop it should be easier, take the hard-drive out and connect it to another PC as a secondary volume, then boot it up and run checkdisk.
Pioneer:
Thanks alot JoyMonkey ;D
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