I have a good spec PC about 2 years old, zoostorm, i5, 8gig RAM , 1 TB HDD , geforce graphics card....

 

yesterday it wouldn't boot up. just stopped on the motherboard graphic.

 

windows 7 ect is all on the hard drive, no discs....

 

got a new hdd and copy of windows 7, fitted the hdd , put disc in, still cant boot it up...

 

i CAN get into the BIOS... could change boot up orders, fan speeds blar blar....

 

just cannot get any further :(

 

any ideas?

 

Ta.

I have a good spec PC about 2 years old, zoostorm, i5, 8gig RAM , 1 TB HDD , geforce graphics card....

yesterday it wouldn't boot up. just stopped on the motherboard graphic.

windows 7 ect is all on the hard drive, no discs....

got a new hdd and copy of windows 7, fitted the hdd , put disc in, still cant boot it up...

i CAN get into the BIOS... could change boot up orders, fan speeds blar blar....

just cannot get any further :(

any ideas?

Ta.

Is your RAM more than 1 stick? (2x4gb etc) if so take one out and try, then try the other on its own.

Also, try stripping it to its minimum, 1 RAM stick, if it has onboard graphics try that over the inbuilt card. Check all cables are in/secure etc. Give it a good blast with compressed air and clean the dust out.

Where abouts are you? Might be someone local can help.

Is your RAM more than 1 stick? (2x4gb etc) if so take one out and try, then try the other on its own.

 

 

Also, try stripping it to its minimum, 1 RAM stick, if it has onboard graphics try that over the inbuilt card. Check all cables are in/secure etc. Give it a good blast with compressed air and clean the dust out.

Where abouts are you? Might be someone local can help.

Thanks guys, first thing I did was check all the connections, in BIOS there is a function to check PC health, and both RAM boards are working correctly...

 

I will however try I know with computers things may not work even if it says they do!

Is your disk boot priority in your BIOS set to the new hard drive?

Is your disk boot priority in your BIOS set to the new hard drive?

no. (it was) there is nothing on it, its a new hard drive, I set the boot priority to the DVD drive where the disc with windows 7 is.....

 

I have given up, I have ordered  new computer (cheapish at £200) with an AMD A10 processor, and I will cannibalise my current one to make a decent PC...

 

I'm typing this on a 6 y/o laptop, that is SO slow, its like dial up.... diagnostics say the available RAM is too small to run the browser! oh dear..... too old...

 

still here we are!

I had a bricked laptop with similar symptoms.  Burned the Windows ISO to DVD and reinstalled using the optical drive instead of HDD. Took several attempts but 18 hours later had a working laptop - (to replace the much newer one my Daughter had spilt a pint of juice on!!)

It sounds stupid, but is the cpu fan working??

A cpu will just about function under the tiny load the BIOS requires, but fry under the stress of trying to load windoze.

Also, not sure if this is true of modern boards, but I have had experiences where I could get into the BIOS screens even when the cpu was dead. We are talking OLD here though, P333 and P400 running Win98/98se. (A bad psu kept killing the cpu).

yeah the fan is working.... but interesting point about the bios.... it was super slow.... so cpu could be dead.....

 

ordered a new one, with an AMD A10 processor and big graphics, gonna change over my big memory and HDD, to make a decent pc.

 

given up trying to make the old one work! lol...

 

I have however spent some time on this 100y/o laptop, and speeded it up a bit lol..

I may have a brand new toshiba 2 TB HDD for sale if anyone is interested?! lol...

 

I have however spent some time on this 100y/o laptop, and speeded it up a bit lol..

 

I bet it is faster than my current situation; I am using an old EeePC901 which feels positively speedy compared to the wet string being used for the internet here in CHINA.

"Local" websites and some foreign websites are fine, but anything using google api's is either blocked or heavily restricted. Briskoda uses a lot of google api's, so it takes ON AVERAGE 10 minutes for every single page change or refresh.

I have just about got the old laptop to run a browser effectively, but it struggles with facebook due to the memory needed to load the page, it has such poor available memory, a facebook page is a big challenge!   

I have just about got the old laptop to run a browser effectively, but it struggles with facebook due to the memory needed to load the page, it has such poor available memory, a facebook page is a big challenge!

I have a all in one pc if your interest :p decent spec aswell. Just pop down to the for sale thread