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Thread ID: 135862	2013-12-19 22:31:00	Window7 can boot in Safe Mode but not full	EFFIGY (12530)	Press F1

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1363099	2013-12-21 23:43:00	Could this be a dead Hard Drive? Sounds like you have done everything correctly. How old is the Computer, maybe a bit of backgrond history as well if able. From what you descibed, it sounds like the Partition software displayed & worked OK, and its now that its trying to load in drivers, this is when it gets to the point "system needs to restart", at this stage theres a lot of activity happening in the background, Windows installs Drivers related to some internal components and other various software. It may be a hard Drive, but as an educated guess, and seen this before many times, it can also be other hardware failing. Does this have a seperate Graphic card, or are you using inbuilt Graphics. ?	wainuitech (129)
1363100	2013-12-22 00:44:00	The computer was built in October 2009. Gigabyte GA-M720-US3 ATX AM2 AMD Athlon II Dual Core 250 CPU, 32.0 GHz (65W), 2MB Cache, Sockets AM3 / AM2+ / AM2 Corsair 550W VX-550 ATX Power Supply, 120mm fan, PCI-E Graphic Adata Gaming Edition 4GB (2GB x 2 Dualpack) DDR2 - 1066G DIMM Galaxy GF 9800GT PCI-E 2.0 1Gb DDR3 256-bit, 625/1800MHz, 1x DVI, ix HDMI, HDTV, HDCP,, SLI Read Samsung 500GB Eco Green F2 HD502HI HDD - 16MB Cache, SATA II 3.0Gbps, 8.9ms average seek time 3yr Helpful? We gutted an old case and put all that into the old case but kept the floppy, CD and DVD	EFFIGY (12530)
1363101	2013-12-22 01:06:00	What I would do if I had it in the workshop is first remove the two Memory sticks, blow out any dust ets then put back one of the sticks, see if it carries on, if not turn off and try the other. Failing that you can also run memtest, one place you can down load is from www.memtest86.com Select Image for creating bootable CD. Burn the Image to a new CD, boot and run from that, it may take a while, but if anything shows in RED then the memory has a fault. Remove the graphic card, clean it out, see what happens. In the work shop I would then start changing out parts, HDD, Graphic Card, Power Supply testing each time something is changed. "IF" its still playing up, that leaves the mother board or CPU. More of a chance its a Motherboard fault than a CPU though. Most of the time I've seen problems like this its either the Graphic Card, Motherboard, HDD or PSU in that order. 4 years old is not an uncommon time to expect motherboards to fail, some do it sooner. Its really a process of elimination to find the faulty part.	wainuitech (129)
1363102	2013-12-22 03:09:00	Great, I'll try all that, hopefully its not a too expensive part. This machine has been owned by a teen boy and has seen some hard core gaming, so I guess its reasonable that something has burned out. Ill keep you posted; Enjoy that brew! On my own machine I once thought something serious had died - it turned out to be a $6 battery lol.	EFFIGY (12530)
1363103	2013-12-22 03:28:00	In the previous posts, where you mentioned : It comes up with 'Starting Windows' and then there is a white horozontal flash across the screen followed by blackness. This usually means drivers are starting to load and something is causing a major crash, its finding whats causing it. Once its found then the cure/fix can be figured out. This is where its handy to have some olddspare testing parts before spending $$$ on new parts Just some advise, try one thing at a time, other wise changing any more and it suddenly works will still be -- OK whats faulty ??? Just a thought -- Make sure its not overclocked ( reset the BIOS settings back to default) -- Being a gaming machine - that can cause all sorts of problems.	wainuitech (129)
1363104	2014-01-03 05:48:00	As a post script to this, it turned out to be the old Radeon 5770 Graphics card, it looked like a large, slightly toasted dust bunny. After costing out parts and weighing options, we went shopping. We bought an HP ENVY dv4-5318TX for $850 (ex demo), it has the grunt to run all the peripherals a 17yr old could want. A surprising find was the inclusion of a PCI port, which my googleing had lead me to believe was non existent in 14" Envy's. Summary of ports, 3x USB, PCI, HDMI. Ethernet, sound in [single green pin] and sound out [the one with the microphone icon] I don't know the geek terms for those two sorry. So now he has his 23" monitor attached, his wireless headset, speakers, mouse and keyboard, 32" TV via HDMI and wirelessly prints to the family HP Printer. Pull a few plugs and he is mobile. Best of all, it is so small it hides in the old computer desk. We left the hulk of the old case in place so his Luddite/Scrooge Dad thinks we got the old PC working!	EFFIGY (12530)
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