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| Thread ID: 116818 | 2011-03-21 21:52:00 | Computer no longer booting up / OS failure? | smudge (13752) | Press F1 |
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| 1188167 | 2011-03-21 21:52:00 | My partner bought a computer around August/September last year, it had been going great, he turned it off 2 nights ago and when he went to start it up last night, it starts off with the Asus logo, but once it gets past that it's a blank screen. He can use the express gateway to access the internet which bypasses the operating system, but that's as far as he can go. He's running Windows XP pro, I thought i would try a repair install to see if that would be any help, but the XP disk won't boot up. I restarted the computer and chose cd/dvd room, the cursor blinks on the screen for around a minute then it goes blank again. The specs of the machine: (Copying out of the booklet) CPU: AMD socket AM3 for AMD Phenom II / Athlon II / Sempron 100 Series processors Motherboard; Asus M4A87TD/USB3 Chipset: AMD 870 / SB850 Not sure if I need to state anything else? |
smudge (13752) | ||
| 1188168 | 2011-03-21 21:55:00 | Check in the BIOS and make sure it can still see both the HDD and the CD Drive? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1188169 | 2011-03-21 22:00:00 | Disable the ASUS logo in the BIOS. See whats its saying. Or press tab / esc I think it is, it may go to the back screen | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1188170 | 2011-03-21 22:04:00 | I'm lost already lol. Ok I'm in BIOS setup. It says Sata 1, 2, 3 & 6 not detected, Sata 4 Samsung HD103SJ Sata 5: HL-DT-ST dvdram GH |
smudge (13752) | ||
| 1188171 | 2011-03-21 22:14:00 | OK cool so it finds the HDD, it's just that something is corrupt / missing. Try a windows repair is probably the best place to start :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1188172 | 2011-03-21 22:19:00 | Smudge did the cd wouldn't boot | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1188173 | 2011-03-21 22:20:00 | Yeah, was just about to say that. The screen just goes black, even after trying to boot from cd. How do I disable the Asus Logo? It's like a greenish screen and it says something like Press Del to access bios.. and some other menu things, it only stays up for a couple of seconds. |
smudge (13752) | ||
| 1188174 | 2011-03-21 22:23:00 | Got a linux live boot cd?? If you have see if that works | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1188175 | 2011-03-21 22:27:00 | Nope. | smudge (13752) | ||
| 1188176 | 2011-03-21 23:03:00 | Greenish colour = distorted corrupted colours? | Cato (6936) | ||
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