I have a ASUS M5A78L-M-LX mother board. When I install the FirePro neither monitor will respond.Inserted correctly.Also when inserted, the VGA on the mother board will not work. Once removed the VGA works?
View 2 RepliesWhen I lost my internet connection I tried to uninstall my wireless program to re-install it. The windows installer wouldn't uninstall so I loaded files from the computers internal restoration disk to repair some old files. Now my computers not working at all. It won't boot up to install the restoration files. It might tell pop in a restoration disk and then say it can't boot up from a dvd drive. How do I boot up my computer and install the new system?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI when I went over to my desktop after getting up this morning I found that it didn't react to me moving the mouse, and the screen stayed black even when I turned it on. I turned it off, then back on. It froze during the windows boot screen (black screen + logo ) It kept doing that. Tried System Restore, it froze during that too.On Windows 7 install it freezes during the Expanding phase at random points.What I've tried:Installing on another harddrive. (same result)Windows Restore Memory Diagnostic (no Errors)Chkdsk (not /r the short version, will have to make a boot cd to do that)
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy mom's computer started having issues booting a day ago, it seemed like something was draining all of her cpu's power. I verified that was not the case, and ran the computer in safe-mode. I downloaded Ccleaner and cleaned her registry with it (Yes, I verified that the registry values it removed/modified were safe, most of the having to do with programs I know were removed from the computer.) After a re-booting it appears the BCD has gone corruptit would be an easy fix, but her computer, (Bought at the store in a IVY Tech college.) did not come with a windows install disk, so repairing the BCD has proven difficult. Is there any other way I can do it? (I did ensure she made some recovery disk's when she bought it, but as far as I call tell, all they can do is fully restore windows.)
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently purchased a new PC and it was working very well the first few days. I eventually installed a power source and video card from my previous computer into my new computer, and I began to have issues. When I boot up computer, I will see a solid underscore for about at least a minute before it finally boots up. Previous to this, it would boot up in under 10 seconds. I installed an Antec earth watts 500 and a nvidia gts 450. I updated the drivers. Other factors: Installed avg free, malwarebytes free, installed a couple of games and some programs like MSI Afterburner. I scanned my entire system with both of the security programs listed earlier. I checked my connections inside the computer and everything is snug and secure. I couldn't see any issues.
View 2 Replies View RelatedOk so after years of running XP, I finally got an external HDD to back all my crap on and Windows 7 Ultimate. I backed up all my stuff, ran the win7 DVD through start up, reformated my hard drive, installed windows 7.
It installed fine, rebooted a couple of times through the install, finishes, and logs me to the desktop. Its all working fine, I can use the net etc. I shut it down to restart it, and it doesn't start back up. It gets to the bios window where it decides to start off the dvd or hdd, just prior to where it should normally change to the 'windows is loading' screen, and just sits there, blinking and doing nothing.
I've done three installs, I took out the hard drive, reformated it with another computer, made sure it had a ntfs file system, everything, it's working fine. But every single time I install windows 7, It logs me into the desktop for the first time, I can do everything fine, but then if I Shutdown or restart, it hangs on the screen prior to windows loading. I can't even choose a boot option.
I've seen some ideas on other forums, pulling the power out, resetting the bios/cmos, changing boot sequence, unplugging all non-essential hardware.. nothing. It's like as soon as I install windows 7 my hard drive isn't there anymore.
Specs:
Abit AX78 - Latest BIOS version
AMD 9950 quad core 2.6
4GB DDR2-800
ATi HD 5870
Western Digital 500GB
What can I do to make my graphics card work perfect but not messing up the pc I have tried downloading the drivers got hold of various versions tried them but they kept on giving me the problem, with a black screen after window logo loading.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am running an Advent desktop PC and its stats are as follows; Intel Core i5-2310 CPU @ 2.90GHz 8GB RAM Win 7 64 bit.The problem I am having is when ever i boot up the computer it shows the Advent logo-screen where I can access the boot menu etc but then it goes to a black screen with a cursor/underscore flashing in the top left... This screen stays for quite a while and I am not sure if it stops because of a key I have pressed or just because it has run its course but after it disappears the computer goes back to the logo-screen for a moment and proceeds to boot up as normal except slightly slower than usual.It is a relatively new computer and it has no problems running at all once the boot up is complete it is fast and as friendly as ever.
View 4 Replies View Relatedihave windows 8 my lpatop is acer aspire E1-531, I am trying to install windows 7 but boot manager wont show me dvd boot !! it show me only network boot what can i do to be able to boot from dvd
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a two year old Dell PC with Windows 7. I got a virus in my computer that by phone and computer takeover Norton located in my MBR. When they cleaned it my computer will no longer boot up. Norton worked with me for three days on the problem but we were unable to fix the computer. I followed other web sites and repaired my MBR but it still will not boot up. I tried System Repair, Check point, Image, and Dell system restore and all failed. I have tried to use the Windows install CD and all I get is a black screen with a flashing cursor and then after 3 minutes the compute attempts to boot again and fails. I tried everything to try and wipe the drive from C prompt and it will not let me. I have very weak computer skills but I can follow directions and I have wiped a previous computer I owned. (I confirmed that my CD drive is working) I also should mention I have a second hard drive on my computer that I backed everything up to.
View 1 Replies View Relatedhow would i be able to install drivers for another PC to boot from the install that was made on another PC
View 1 Replies View RelatedI purchased an HP latop right when Windows 7 was coming out and the HP laptop had Windows Vista when I bought it but I was sent a free upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate by HP during the time when they were selling laptops with Vista and sending free upgrades.So what I want to know since the fan stopped working some time ago, (cooling it with a small fan from Walmart sending air around and inside it somewhat) on the HP laptop I purchased and recieved the free upgrade. If I return the HP laptop to factory settings (did a complete backup when purchased) and put Vista back on it, can I use my Windows 7 Ultimate disk in a newly purchased laptop since it will still only be on one laptop since I am returning the old one to Vista?And do I have to uninstall Windows 7 Ultimate with the Upgrade disk so it knows it's no longer on that computer. In other words are they linked by some type of serial number on my HP laptop that only allows me to install the Windows Upgrade disk on that specific machine?
View 1 Replies View Relatedi cannot do anything with my laptop it restarted unexpectedly during install and i tried a windows 8 install but no hdd found what can i do?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have XP SP2 installed. I used EASEUS Partition Master to split my drive in half, one half being XP, the other half being a future install of Windows 7.
Put DVD in, selected the blank partition, began the install. Once it gets to the first reboot, it will reboot and go straight into XP. There is no option to choose Windows 7. The XP boot.ini has only one entry for XP.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm thinking I need to add an entry for Windows 7, but have no clue what to put and I'm also guessing I'd have to add a few special tags because it's booting into the setup process of Win 7.
OS - Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
Okay, the past few days my computer wasn't all ways booting the OS up straight away, it would freeze at the windows 7 logo screen. However, after a few times of restarting my computer, it would load up my OS fine.
This morning when I turned my computer on, it froze on the windows logo screen. I've chose both the "Launch Startup Repair (recommended)" and "Start Windows Normally", neither work. They both freeze upon trying to load.
Trying to launch startup repair, takes me to the screen where there is a gold bar scrolling across, loading, with Microsoft corporation underneath. That loads fine, however, after that, the screen goes completely black.
Trying to launch windows normally brings me to the windows 7 logo screen with the coloured flag and freezes there.
After that, I put my windows 7 installation CD in and tried repairing the OS from there. This didn't work either as i put it in, chose boot from cd, and it would load the files, then when it got to the logo screen, it would do the same thing and freeze there.
So I tried booting in safe mode... So I booted my computer up, pressing F8, I got to the advanced Boot menu, I chose safe mode, that listed all the files it was loading, then when it got to disk.sys, it would freeze. I'm not 100% sure if it froze because I only waited for about half an hour, hoping it would load.
I've tried booting with all the other options under this menu and it still freezes At one point when i was booting up my computer, it showed a BSOD that was to do with memory management, not sure, i didn't write the error message down
This computer is an ACER running Windows 7 with an AMD Athlon II CPU.Suddenly it would not boot.It starts up, I hear one beep, the CPU fan runs but it goes no further. I was looking in the BIOS and in Advanced BIOS Features is saw an entry "Reset Configuration Data". It was [Disabled] so in changed it to [Enabled], then rebooted and this is what I saw: After the first two lines about the BIOS version and copyright info it sat for some time then I saw this:I don't have a system disk for this computer.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI started to install windows 7 on my computer got half way through when my boy pushed rest. After starting up it looked like it was starting windows when I got that windows encountered an unexpected rest error. Windows installation cannot proceed. It's telling me to restart computer and then restart installation. When I restart the installation it gets to the same point and does the same thing so I got a repair disc, set my computer to boot from DVD drive and got to bit where it says push any key to start boot from disc. But it does have not let me push any key and tries to start windows and get the same message. GRRR Ok so I try to reinstall vista but It still wont let me push any key to boot from disc.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI don't know if this is a common issue for older hardware, but to me it just seems weird. I have an old ex-work machine by NEC which can and currently does run Windows XP (any 32bit) as well as is capable of Ubuntu. However if I attempt to boot from a Windows 7 / Vista / EmbeddedStandard7 disc, the computer just reboots itself. Before I attempted to boot W7/etc I ran DBAN to remove the sensitive data. No matter what I try, [Windows] Vista or later it doesn't seem to boot, or even get past the 'Press any key to boot from disc . . .' as when I do it reboots. I tried side loading Win7 by hooking the HDD up to my HTPC and installing 7, which all worked perfectly.... until I tried to boot the HDD with the problem computer, when it just reboots every time I ask it to boot from disc. I then tried installing 7 / Vista on top of an XP MCE install; but it still has the same problem - it cannot even finish the install as it reboots and then wont allow itself to boot to continue the install.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am running Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit and the other day while I was listening to iTunes, I heard a horrible, robotic noise coming from my computer. I noticed that it had locked up and iTunes was no longer playing so I tried a reboot. It took me four times of turning on and of the power to get the computer to boot and once it did, everything seemed fine. Now, when I turn on power, the fans come on for a few seconds then go off and after a few more seconds come back on but the computer will not even boot up. I don't even think it goes thru the POST because the LEDs on the keyboard never flash.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI recently got rid of windows 8 from a partition, but it still gives me the option to boot into windows 8 upon bootup. I pressed enter on win8, and it says it needs to be fixed, but the partition i removed it on, no longer exists. How can I get my computer to boot up like it did before?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI accidentally knocked my computer on its side and at first it would work for about an hour or so. Then it would suddenly freeze and blue and yellow lines would appear on the screen. If I did a force shutdown, it would work for a couple of hours, then freeze again. Now, it has blue lines on the screen as soon as I turn it on. It always freezes right after the Windows 7 logo comes on and it says "Starting Windows".
I have a lot of important information on my hard drive, so I don't want to try to restore it if I can, and I think it might be a hardware issue anyway. I'm short on money as well, so I'd rather not buy a new computer or have to hire a technician.
I have an HP Pavilion PC and yesterday got an Windows Restore Virus. I followed the insturctions and thought I got it off with the malwarebytes untill this afternoon it appeared again. The computer populated with the same problems as before. I restarted the computer in an attempt to get into safe mode with networking, but after the HP symbol shows I get a black screen with a blinking underscore line at the top. When I attempt to get to system restore the computer again goes black. At the moment I can not find my restore disk and I need to know if I have any options. Everything on my computer is backed up on a hard drive in the event that I have to start over.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to do a repair installation but my computer refuses to boot from the dvd and immediately boot the hard drive.
I tried going to bio then advance boot options and changing first priority to cd and second priority to harddisk.
also, tryed pressing F12 which leads me to the boot menu and I chose cdrom but sill refuses to boot. Is it because I'm using a dvd-r disk instead of a cd?
EDIT: Never mind, fixed it. apparently my dvd drive was labeled different
[code] I've been gaming perfectly fine for about 3 weeks. I was playing today and all of a sudden I got the BSOD. I tried to reboot and windows got stuck at "Starting Windows" then it reboots and gives me a "Windows failed to start" screen and gives me the option to repair or start windows normally.I've tried:
1. Starting Windows Normally. The process above repeats itself
2. Attempting to use windows repair takes me to a black screen and nothing loads.
3. I've tried changing BIOS sata from ACHI to IDE, or Native IDE. Neither makes a difference.
4. I tried booting into "Safe Mode". This only gives me a BSOD.
Got a blue screen yesterday and then the computer would not boot up. On pressing the start button, the power on light comes on and stays on. Can hear a buzz for a second and then nothing - black screen, no light on for hard drive. Cannot do anything.Funny thing is that after this happened yesterday, I found out that if I pressed the on button and the dvd eject button simultaneously, the computer booted up. I was able to back up all my files. I then went to the c drive properties to initiate check disk. It told me that it could only be done at next start up. So, I restarted the computer with the above trick and let it check the disk. No problems found. I then rebooted with the same trick and got into bios - reset it to default values. Did not fix the problem. Restarted with the same trick and got into "repair my computer" after pressing F8 repeatedly. Restored the system to previous good boot, etc.
Checked internet for help and noted at one place that the registry might be too long and have many bad entries. Dowloaded a regisry repair probram and cleaned the registry out. After that - no can do nothing!!! On pressing start button, the power light comes on, the dvd drive works, but nothing else happens. So, cannot get into troubleshooting or safe mode by pressing F8 as the computer has a black screen from the very beginning.
Right, when I start my computer it boots into 7, makes it all the way to where the login screen would appear and just comes up as a black screen with a movable cursor, no sounds, no interaction, nothing.
This isn't the first time this has happened, usually when this happens I'm able to boot into safe mode and restore the computer (the restore point is always the same, critical update installed the last time I used the computer) this time it didn't work and now I can't even get into safe mode.
Specs that I know of
Intel Pentium 2.93GHz
2GB DDR3 RAM
1GB Video RAM
Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit
About 2-3 weeks ago, my computer wouldn't boot. I tried everything and found that the hard drive was too far gone to save any info/reboot it. So in the mean time, while looking for and ordering a new hard drive, i was using unbuntu to make the computer usable (as in go on the internet, type stuff up, watch videos) and all of a sudden my computer won't even boot up from CD'S anymore. My hard drive is set to come soon but for the mean time i need ubuntu to run, any one know how i can get the cd to boot . My screen stays stuck at the HP sign with the F10, ESC = BOOT MENU, F12 = BOOT FROM LAN, F11 = SYSTEM RECOVERY, F9 = DIAGNOSTICS Screen. The CD won't boot and even if i try to click f10, f12, it doesnt do anything.
P.S - No CD will load, not just the Ubuntu one, my Parmagicfix thing won't either.
My computer right now will not boot up. Specifically, it will reach the part where the flag begins to form on the loading screen and just as the red and green dots touch, the computer will restart and begin the process again. I cannot boot in any safe mode.
I have the option to access the recovery console which I did. In I have tried startup repair and it told me it was unable to automatically fix my problem. It specified error 0x3712 and indicated that a driver or hardware change could cause this problem. The error is startup repair is offline. Next, I ran chkdsk /r on that partition and it reported no errors. Then, I tried to run sfc /scannow /offbootdir=C: /offwindir=C:windows but it returns "Windows Resource protection could not perform the requested operation."..
I recently assembled a new computer, connected everything started it up - got no output even though I could hear drives spinning and everything "appeared" to work, so I stripped it right back to just the motherboard, CPU (heatsink) and PSU - I do realise that it won't POST without RAM but the motherboard should at least beep to say that there is no RAM but again, nothing.
View 9 Replies View RelatedBuilt my first computer this summer. It was working good. Then problems started happening.First: The computer would freeze every time I would play any games or videos off the internet.Second: Now, I can't even get the thing to boot up. I press the power button. The fans and lights turn on in the case but with in a few seconds it restarts its self. It will continue this cycle until I hit the switch on the power supply. Thats the only way to make it stop.
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I installed Win 7 Pro as a second OS (I also have Win XP Pro). The two are on two separate hard drives. However, my computer does not boot up sometimes. When I press restart, a lot of the times it wont go past the first screen that has a picture of my motherboard and shows BIOS options. Then if I force it to shut down (by holding on/off button), give it about 5 secs to rest and turn it on, then it will start. This problem started after I installed Win 7.
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