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| Thread ID: 120450 | 2011-09-09 08:11:00 | amd am2+ pc died after installing win7 updates, any ideas please? | MrJ (16533) | Press F1 |
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| 1229920 | 2011-09-09 08:11:00 | Hi! I built a PC for a friend and it's been working fine. It has a GA-MA770-S3 rev2, an AMD 7750 BE and was running with a 5450 and 2x 1gb of HyperX 1066 RAM. It was modified (carefully) and had a 9600GT put in, using driver sweeper. At the same time, the RAM was swapped for 4gb of cheapo RAM from an old Phenom prebuilt. It has been working well since but after downloading windows 7 updates and being shut down, it no longer boots or posts. There is a constant beep also. If it helps, the PC was running stock speeds (system is fine for his needs so o/c not necessary) and had been on for a period of a few days before being shut down. The WIN7 install is recent, a new HD with xp immediately upgraded to 7 Home Premium. The poor lad who has it now is distraught, tomorrow is his WoW raid night. Any ideas on what may be the likely cause, and if there's a few primary steps to go over. I'm going there tomorrow so will do the obvious clear cmos and try different memory. Thanks for any help you can give :) |
MrJ (16533) | ||
| 1229921 | 2011-09-09 08:16:00 | Was it a clean install of Win7? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1229922 | 2011-09-09 08:27:00 | Pretty much. It has a new Hard Drive. XP Pro was loaded on and then it was upgraded to Win7 using the family upgrade pack all offline. It was working both with its original hd5450 and 2gb of RAM and was fine with its change of ram and card, both the original build and the changes operated online and updated Win7. However, the bulk of the windows 7 updates including possibly sp1 would have happened since the changeover. | MrJ (16533) | ||
| 1229923 | 2011-09-09 08:33:00 | Sounds like one of the updates killed it then. Don't suppose you made an image of the hard drive when you upgraded it? If you have reload the image and see if it boots if it does then do the updates manually one at a time making a new image each time until it dies again | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1229924 | 2011-09-09 08:33:00 | The XP was an old service pack 1a that I found at work. I 'borrowed' an xp key from one of the offline pc's and used that. It didn't need to go online to upgrade, other than that the disk was as new. MB, CPU are both a bit older being am2+ / ddr2 but I've had them a while and they seemed to be fine. | MrJ (16533) | ||
| 1229925 | 2011-09-09 08:36:00 | Righto, I was guessing it was an update but didn't know if that actually ever caused such a sudden death. There was no image so I guess after resetting and swapping memory I'll try to do a new install and update manually. ty for your help. Just hope I don't have any hassle with the 3 user limit on the os :) | MrJ (16533) | ||
| 1229926 | 2011-09-09 08:52:00 | It has been working well since but after downloading windows 7 updates and being shut down, it no longer boots or posts. There is a constant beep also. That constant beep will tell you what is wrong. Find out what Bios it has then find out what the beep codes are for it. |
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| 1229927 | 2011-09-09 10:12:00 | www.5starsupport.com www.computerhope.com These may help. I would try memory first. Don't think you'll have trouble with OS licenses, if you're putting it back on the same machine (authorising sends your machine hardware/software IDs to Microsoft). It has been said that the best way to install W7 is a clean install. |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1229928 | 2011-09-09 20:33:00 | Have you tried booting from a live boot CD such as Puppy Linux? that will tell whether it's hardware or software | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1229929 | 2011-09-09 21:53:00 | Have you tried booting from a live boot CD such as Puppy Linux? that will tell whether it's hardware or software and how is he to boot from a live CD when he can't get past the bios post. |
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