Formatting question

Zerocool032

Well, Last night after I was playing DAoC, I quit (character screen) the shut off my monitor.  This morning when I woke up I turned on my monitor and its on the boot screen saying CPU fan wont work blah blah blah press f1 to continue. 

Ok so when windows trys to load, it crashes  safe mode , normal, windows always crashes.

Now my memory of formatting isnt what it use to be.  So i poped in the windows xp disk, loaded from CD, went through all that stuff.  When it got me to my partition screen, i hit delete partition. (now knowing it was setup windows on partition)

It took almost no time to delete it, and it said all my disk space was free, so then I hit setup windows on partition, then it said your partition may be full or damaged, please format and what not, so I selected the format with NSC somthing like that.

Ok now, my question is, did i screw anything over by just deleting the partition?  Because it is taking longer than usual to format.

Thanks.

scaramoosh

Hmm i posted sumwhere saying:

NTFS*

Maybe CPU cooked?

 

Or you formatted FULLY with NTFS instead of quick or FAT32

Phoenixs

eh
It said that the cpu fan didn't work, right? What about checking if the Cpu fan is damaged. The cpu may be damaged. The fan is very important. Without cooling a cpu burns up under 10 seconds. But since you managed to format I must be ok.
I would have checked the cpu fan before I format. Since formatting doesn't resolve hardware failure.
But when you have done it now I don't think you damaged anything by deleting the partition, but it would have been easier to just format it. Instead of deleting it and then making it again.

Zerocool032

Nah the cpu fan is working fine.  Ive had that error before on other computers.

But when i deleted the partition it showed my MB's wich was like 114463 and it said <free space 114463> (dont remember if that is the number, 120 gig HD) So then i just hit set up windows XP on partition, then it asked me to format.  There were 2 choices in formatting one was format quick and just normal format.

42% formatted been about 1h 40m

EDIT:  BEFORE i deleted partition it was like this.  C: partition1 [unkown] 114463 <free space 473843>

AFTER i deleted partition it was.. C: partitoin1 [unknown] 114463 <free space 114463>

(HD space is the exact number now)

Elapsed

The CPU fan error is caused by the BIOS, I don't think Windows would have anything to do with it. Are you absolutely sure it isn't the fan? Have you looked inside and made sure? There are other fans in the computer, so don't just go by the sound. If the fan really is working there usually is a setting in the BIOS to disable the CPU fan check, but Windows shutting down in all modes really sounds like the computer is overheating.

Zerocool032

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Originally posted by -Jaguar-

The CPU fan error is caused by the BIOS, I don't think Windows would have anything to do with it. Are you absolutely sure it isn't the fan? Have you looked inside and made sure? There are other fans in the computer, so don't just go by the sound. If the fan really is working there usually is a setting in the BIOS to disable the CPU fan check, but Windows shutting down in all modes really sounds like the computer is overheating.

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Glass case.  My CPU fan is spinning so i would think its working

But i could believe its overheating.  I hardly ever turn my comp off, i restart often i just never leave my comp off.

65% now

scaramoosh

turn it off then

Zerocool032

OK nevermind.  It wouldnt finish formatting cause its damaged or whatever.

When i rebooted it said CPU fan error again.....what do i do now?

EDIT: I got to the format screen again, if i should format, should i do normal or quick?

scaramoosh

Get a new CPU and a new MB