Hello ,
A friend dropped his POS off today.....
It will not boot into windows. he says it wouldn't do anything and he thought it was the on board video which is possible because it wouldn't come up on the screen at all. he installed a video card and now it comes up but it stops the boot and gives the.....
The last boot to windows did not complete would you like to boot into safe mode, normally...etc...
No matter what choice you make it just sits there! Even the count down if you dont make any choice stops at 24 secs and hangs.
I did notice that when it starts up it gives the standard single beep but, then a few secs later it gives another single beep!?!
Mobo - SOYO SY-K7VME
Any Ideas what the problem might be?
Loads, don't have enough info yet. Could be a hard drive failure, insufficient power or bad power supply, cpu is clocked to high or faulty (unlikely, but you haven't said if it was overclocked or not), bad memory, hell it could even be insufficient cooling. On the plus side the motherboard is clearly ok, that's basically all you can cross off the list. I reccomend you go through the list of possibilites and cross them off one by one until you find the culprit, does it have a hard drive indicator light? If so does it light up when it "hangs"?
Do the following to start:
-Run memtest If memtest is successful then the memory is fine, if you have never used memtest before just look it up on google
-Check the temperature in the CMOS/BIOS Extremely unlikely but you never know, if the idle is above 60 celcius you definitely want to deal with that
-Test the power supply If you don't know how just say so and I'll give you some instructions.
-Try reformatting Not sure if the person who gave it to you will let you but if he does then try reformatting in case it was a hard drive crash.
-See if it can boot linux from external media like a cd This will tell us if the CPU is unstable or if the hard drive crashed. Plus if you can get into linux you can diagnose the problem a lot more easily from in their than from just using the CMOS/BIOS.
The 4 likely culprits are power supply, HDD, CPU, and memory. I'm going to wait until you respond so I can cross a few off the list so to speak, then I'll tell you how to test the rest.
the beeps could be normal, depends on hardware
also, i'd say windows is pooped.
99% the beeps are either normal or diagnostic beeps. To bad he probable doesn't have the mobo manual. I personally think it's most likely a hard drive crash, but with so little info to go on their are many possible causes.
(11-03-2009, 03:13 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]99% the beeps are either normal or diagnostic beeps.
dur, why else would the pc beep
for diagnostic or normal XD
...now that I think about it....I have no idea, stupid comment on my part. Btw daco your sig is AWESOME, but very distracting when I'm trying to read, can't stop staring at it for some reason. In case that came out wrong I'm not complaining.
Probably the hard drive, try downloading a LiveCD of ubuntu or another linux distro and see if the computer boots into it, if it does then the harddrive is probably damaged
(11-06-2009, 09:55 AM)Bacon Wrote: [ -> ]Probably the hard drive, try downloading a LiveCD of ubuntu or another linux distro and see if the computer boots into it, if it does then the harddrive is probably damaged
Quote:-See if it can boot linux from external media like a cd This will tell us if the CPU is unstable or if the hard drive crashed. Plus if you can get into linux you can diagnose the problem a lot more easily from in their than from just using the CMOS/BIOS.
Yeah, good job editing it in afterwards
Lol, was wondering if you would notice
. Yeah I was tired and screwed up on what that would prove, but I still suggested to try booting linux off a live cd first, just didn't say that would help check for a HDD issue. I don't think this person is coming back to read our responses.