Sup /g/, the other night I was browsing the web, went downstairs and when I came back my PC was off. Checked fuses and tried to start it, but it won't turn on. The light on the mobo is still on so I'm ruling out MOBO and cpu attempts to spin for a second.
Just got a new PSU and plugged everything back in, same problem. Ram is new and I don't think it's HDD failure because I've had harddrives fail before and the PC would still turn on to a black screen.
What else can I try to do?
Wow, I had the same problem, it looks like it's.....
Fuck off.
>>52147886
I already tried google, every answer posted on a tech forum just disproves the last answer, I'm not finding a solid solution.
>>52147842
Take out gpu
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>>52147973
Stupid Questions Thread. Don't create a thread for your tech problem.
>>52148006
I posted in that thread yesterday and nobody responded, I'm sorry.
>>52148042
Senpai do what I said
I'd first try it with just 1 ram just to rule everything out.
Like someone mentioned, I'd take out the GPU and use whatever your mobo is using to see if you get a start up splash screen.
After that, since we already ruled out PSU, I would try either the HDD or mobo next. I've had an issue where it sounds similar to you, but my motherboard ended up getting fried somehow. I swapped out the mobo and it was fine.
>>52148070
I unplugged the gpu it still won't turn on
>>52148155
Just do
>>52148148
>>52148218
Can I just unplug the GPU or do you want me to take the entire thing out?
>>52148263
Unplugging it should be just fine.
I'm
>>52148148
And from my own personal hell, I have a hunch it's the mobo. I remember replacing every single part, including the case only to find out it was the mobo.
>>52148263
Entire thing senpai don't be a dummy
>>52148315
>>52148305
HOLY FUCK IT DIDNT WORK WHEN I UNPLUGGED THE CARD BUT I TOOK IT OUT AND ITS TURNING ON
>>52148373
I said it straight away always do GPU first
Take everything out and run it bare bones, eliminate as many variables as possible.
>>52148398
Thank you familia, just so happens I ordered a new card with the ram and PSU. Am I gonna make it?
>>52148450
I think rest will be fine desu senpai, now let's talk about payment :^)
>>52148483
I'll be your /g/ bumbling sidekick apprentice?
>>52148554
I was thinking nudes but that's better
This is the kind of shit I'm happy to be apart of. Even though g is no one's tech support, sometime it's just nice to help
>>52148676
Nigguh I knew it was gonna be that desu, so it's not like I had to teach OP how to not be a faggot
>>52148588
>>52148676
>>52148714
Update friends, new card is seated, everything plugged in, boot up and I get a black screen saying "A bootable device has not been detected. Please refer to product guide http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop
I'm scared
>>52148789
Hit the boot menu key when booting and select your HDD?
Pay someone else to fix it for you, you clueless fuck
>>52148789
Hard drive is disconnected or not selected as boot device.
>>52148862
I had to move the HDD plugs down two slots on the mobo to be able to fit the larger graphics card, it's failing to go into boot menu though
>>52148840
>>52148862
I had to move the HDD connectors down in my mobo to seat the larger gpu, but I'm failing to access boot menu
>>52148843
Relax buddy, if you don't want to help, you don't have to be in this thread. All were trying to do is contribute something to improve someone else's day, it's called not being selfish for once.
>>52148918
Not all sata ports are equal. Disconnect the hard drives entirely and see if you can now access the boot menu.
Can you post the motherboards make and model number so that we can check the manual.
>>52148951
Can you access the bios?
>>52148951
Just go into bios and edit boot settings. I am going sleep good luck senpai
>>52148954
Spirit of Old /g/ right up in this muthafucker.
Thanks again guys for your patience, I made it to this screen but I'm not sure what to do next
>>52148994
It says boot on the top ribbon pls read :l
>>52147842
I am absolutely unfamiliar with what I'm seeing here, can anyone explain? Did op hot glue his GPU instead of his anime figurines?
>>52149002
What am I changing in that boot menu?
>>52149027
Primary boot device to your HDD you boot from
Found the manual for OP's motherboard https://downloadmirror.intel.com/17250/eng/DG41RQ_ProductGuide01_English.pdf
>>52149038
>implying he will actually read it
>>52149034
Hard drive order is greyed out, I checked plugs to make sure they're in all the way where I newly seated them
>>52147842
Stock Intel Cooler
>>52149093
Maybe check manual now? Or a pic of bios, I need to sleep its fucking 2:34 in the morning
>>52149093
Sounds like its not detecting it then. Try reseating the cables on both the motherboard and back of the hard drive, they can be really flimsy.
Molex (power) connectors in particular are usually crap.
>>52149038
>>52149056
>>52149129
Actually I'm not even sure that is the correct manual, OP has 6 sata ports but that pdf only has 4.
You should probably use one of the black sata (hard drive) ports.
>>52149015
This. Please explain why there is so much glue in there, where you trying to give the card additional mechanical support?
>>52149190
That was 6 years ago I have no idea what I was doing
>>52149135
Been using the black ones, can I try the red ones?
>>52149213
Sure, there nothing to lose. But I would try and put it back in its original position from when it was working.
>>52149213
>>52149190
Kek
>>52149015
saved for cringe threads
>>52149213
Is it back in business yet?
I'm getting further, Windows keeps attempting to launch startup repair now, loads to 100%, then the PC just restarts and tries to repair again.
>>52149339
Did you go from an Nvidia to ATI or vice versa?
It recognizes my new ram upgrade but they're greyed out, possibly have to switch slots?
>>52149400
Yeah I switched from ATI to Nvidia with this fresh card install
>>52149409
Are there any options to adjust memory settings under performance and advanced?
>>52149409
What is the make and model number of the motherboard and new memory modules?
I think this is your board https://downloadmirror.intel.com/18505/eng/DH55TC_ProductGuide01_English.pdf
>>52149409
According to the manual you should install them in DIMM 0.
From page 37.
Two 8gig DDR3 I've tried the two black slots as well as the two blue slots and they are still greyed out in BIOS menu. I'm running Win 7 64 home premium so I know my PC can use the ram they're HyperX
>>52149424
boot into safe mode and remove graphics driver from device manager.
>>52149647
I have them in the Dimm 0 slots
>>52149653
Can you get into safe mode like >>52149656 suggested? hopefully you're using windows 7 so you can keep pressing f8 after POST.
>>52149689
Attempted launching in safe mode it displays all drivers then just reboots.
>>52149339
>>52149424
This is probably the culprit. Windows is trying to load the previous ATI driver which the Nvidia card doesn't like, only option is to remove it first.
Does your motherboard have an integrated display output that you could use temporarily to boot up and remove the old drivers?
>>52149769
when you installed windows was your motherboard set to AHCI mode? Is it still set to AHCI mode? make sure the setting is appropriate to when OS was installed. If unsure try toggling different modes.
>>52149769
What driver does it get stuck on?
>>52147842
You have one of those fancy spinning cpus?
>>52149815
Nigga wat
>>52149808
I don't know, buncha letters and numbers then resets.
>>52149807
I didn't do the Windows installation, a buddy did 6 years ago (RIP)
>>52149785
I wouldn't know how to get to that unfortunately
>>52149854
>>52147842
>cpu attempts to spin for a second
>>52149884
I would check this setting. search for sata/hdd mode or something similar. there should be multiple modes. set it to AHCI if on IDE, or set to IDE if on AHCI. if all modes fail, set it back to the original value before u changed it.
If this setting is incorrect it would definitely boot loop as youre describing.
>>52149884
This is what we are interested in, whatever it says here when it resets is the culprit driver. If its GPU related then it confirms that the old cards drivers that need removing.
Can you use the motherboards built in graphics output just to see if it boots? If you can do that then removing the old drivers will be simple.
>>52149918
Thats a good point actually, if OP has tried clearing the CMOS before making this thread then it could have gone back to some default value.
>>52149946
I'm willing to try this I just don't know how to set it to motherboards output
This is where it dies in safemode
>>52150023
>aswrvrt.sys
That's part of advast antivirus, looks like its fucked up the windows startup repair process.
>>52150055
avast*
>>52150055
>>52150067
Is there any way to remove it so I can boot Windows?
>>52150083
Try safemode with networking this time.
>>52150096
Died again pal
>>52150126
Have you got the windows disc handy?
This looks relevant but it still bizare how a GPU swap triggered it https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=173470.0
>>52150194
I do not, and even if I did my disc drive doesn't work anymore (I know, I'm a piece of shit)
>>52150246
Did you at all reset the BIOS/Clear CMOS during your initial trouble shooting?
>>52150335
I did not
>bios
>advanced
>drive configuration
>configure storage controller as
>try both AHCI and IDE
>>52150350
Ok good that rules that out, doing that could have set lots of previously set options to defaults.
>>52150376
Tried switching, still getting hang ups at Windows loading files and when I safemode it still crashes from that stupid avast file
Do I have any other options at this point besides obtaining another copy of Windows 7 and doing a clean USB install? there has to be another way to remove the culprit.
>>52150475
To be sure it isn't being triggered by the new card can you switch to on-board video for now?
>>52150475
Hirens boot cd has lots of automatic windows repair utilities that might be worth a try, and then if you want to recover files from the hard drive it even has a mini windows xp environment so you can copy files over if you don't have another pc to connect the hard drive to.
>>52150509
Just tried this and now my screen is ominously black, can't even see menus at startup anymore
>>52150583
I think you need to remove the slotted graphics card for it to default to the integrated GPU.
>>52150619
Safemode still crashes on that avast file
>>52150719
Ok so we know its probably not hardware then. Personally I would start looking into using hirens boot cd to repair windows at this point.
You can burn it to a USB key too and youtube is full of tutorials, if you just want your files then boot into the mini windows xp mode and access everything from there.
>>52150774
Is there no possible way to delete that bad file outside of being able to launch Windows? if I can clear that file I'll be able to boot properly
>>52148148
>>52148155
>>52148263
>GPU is a synonim for graphics card hurr
If the whole graphics card is the "GPU", then the whole rest of the PC is the CPU? Think about it for a moment. This is "a USB stick is just a USB hurr"-tier idiocy.
>>52150810
Yes with hirens boot cd, navigate to the offending file with the mini xp mode and delete it. But it will probably just fail on a different file next from the forum threads I've been reading.
>>52148373
Then your graphics card is broken and causes an overload/short/whatever, the PSU detects it and won't turn on for safety reasons. I had an old broken graphics card which, if sitting in the AGP slot, would cause the computer not turn on at all, as per the above.
>>52150842
So lay down the final solutions for me friend, regardless of how brutal they may be.
>>52150894
Get files off of hard drive (if needed), then repair or reinstall windows.
>>52149946
This is a bullshit myth. First, that AGP driver won't ever be loaded if there's no AGP card (they were popular 1998-2006). Second, it used to be the last driver to load, and its name displayed meant it has loaded successfully, the OS was just doing different things after which were not showed any info about onscreen.
>>52147842
Reboot with F8 in Safe Mode
>>52150335
>trouble shooting
You mean literally take a rifle and try to shoot some trouble?
Things spelt apart have a literal meaning. For a metaphorical/figurative meaning, they are spelt together (as in "troubleshooting") or hyphenated. It's a disease of these times for more and more idiots not to have a clue about all this and just spell everything apart (especially the correct use of hyphenation seems to be dying out amongst the idiots).
>>52150810
You are being duped by clueless anons believing in myths. See>>52150954. It clearly says "Loaded". If the file's name is displayed, it means it loaded successfully. If it's the last driver to load, then the OS is doing different things which aren't referred to directly onscreen anymore. Just let it sit for a while and maybe it will load to desktop.
>>52150842
>and delete it
It's not safe to do it this way. Use the latest version of Autoruns and load the problematic Windows installation to edit its startup items. Though, I believe the file doesn't cause problems at all if its name was displayed, OP just didn't let it sit long enough to load to desktop. I may take quite a while (10 minutes or so, depending on how screwed-up the system is).
>>52151047
>>52151071
That's the thing guys, no matter what option I choose in the safe menu, PC immediately reboots. if I launch with Windows repair, it loads that then immediately reboots. This thing can not get windows to start.
>>52151102
Please reiterate what parts are connected to the motherboard now and which of these parts have been swapped out from the original PC.
Also, have you tried to use a different power socket/different power strip? Those might be faulty too, and be a source of problems.
>>52151170
I swapped out 8gb ram for 16gb, an ATI card for Nvidia, and a better PSU. Everything is properly plugged in, it's the
Aswrvrt.syst that I keep getting stuck on when booting safemode.
>>52151217
What happens if you install all of the old hardware?
>>52151527
Can't install the old card it's completely fried
