Daston Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Good an odd PC prob guys My girl friends PC crashed and now it hangs on boot up. It sometimes gets to the window loading screen, other times it gets stuck on the motherboard splash screen and sometimes freezes on the Video card detection screen. Any ideas? Dead motherboard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Sounds like a dead motherboard or corrupted bios. Try to get a bios update for the motherboard and have a go at flashing that on. Think you will need a floppy disk to do it though. Try unplugging the HDD's as sometimes a loose SATA cable can cause problems like that. If you unplug the HDD's and CD-Roms etc and it still hangs on the bios then go with my first suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osso Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Doubt it its the mobo... If it actually gets to the windows loading screen, more than likely to be the HDD... mobo's rarely blow unless you've been messing around with it. get yourself a bootable linux iso and slap it onto a usb pen or cd.... if that boots up then you can be pretty sure your motherboard is ok, you could even use the windows install cd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireRZ-S Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Ha it depends on the computer to be honest!! if the motherboard was gone the computer wouldnt start up simple as.. can i ask what comp is it... first thing id try is a recovery and youll know soon enough if its hardware or softwarre... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Doubt it its the mobo... If it actually gets to the windows loading screen, more than likely to be the HDD... mobo's rarely blow unless you've been messing around with it. get yourself a bootable linux iso and slap it onto a usb pen or cd.... if that boots up then you can be pretty sure your motherboard is ok, you could even use the windows install cd. Ha it depends on the computer to be honest!! if the motherboard was gone the computer wouldnt start up simple as.. can i ask what comp is it... first thing id try is a recovery and youll know soon enough if its hardware or softwarre... Hanging on the post says its either a hardware issue or a bios issue. Wouldn't matter if you use a bootable disc or a recovery disc if its still hanging on the post. It is possible that its the HDD, i've had motherboard issues with the Sata ports and the AGP/PCI-E slots. Dead motherboards don't turn on, but they don't have to be dead to malfunction. I've had motherboards where if i plugged in a network cable it would hang the whole system. Its usually never as cut and dry as you think with these bleedin machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osso Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 my money is still on the hdd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osso Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Daston, open up the case, and disconnect the power going to the HDD, if it consistantly reports "Operating system not detected" you can be sure whether its the hdd or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 It'll not be the HDD. Could possibly be graphics card as you've said it seems to hang on that. Do you have another you could try? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daston Posted November 1, 2008 Author Share Posted November 1, 2008 OK heres what I have done Both HDD's unplugged it hangs on the VGA loading screen. Going to try my VGA card to see if that solves it however he gfx card is brand new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daston Posted November 1, 2008 Author Share Posted November 1, 2008 Ok PC running with just Keyboard and Windows HDD seems to get into windows, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Ok PC running with just Keyboard and Windows HDD seems to get into windows, Try it a few times. If it works ok just start plugging in stuff one by one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daston Posted November 1, 2008 Author Share Posted November 1, 2008 Ok it will get into windows and with in 3 seconds lock up. Hit reset fails to post. Turn off turn on Fails to post. Turn off at PSU then turn boot up = post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daston Posted November 1, 2008 Author Share Posted November 1, 2008 Hmm taken a look at the Motherboard it seems the Northbridge chip fan is dead and the chip looks a little worse for ware. New Mobo it looks like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Sounds like a possibility then. Probably cooked the chip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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