Use this tag for questions where a computer fails to successfully load ("boot up") the operating system.
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PSU and motherboard power up failure [duplicate]
My girlfriend's computer is not booting any more. Here is a list of the hardware and the tests I've made so far:
MB: Asus P5QL-E
PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 600W
First failure: the PC was off, ...
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“Internal hard drive not found” error displayed while trying to boot laptop
Internal hard disk drive not found. To resolve this issue, try to reseat the drive. No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 enter Setup Menu, F5 enter PSA.
How do I fix this problem?
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WinXP Loads to Black Screen with Symbols
One of my computers froze then when I restarted it I got a black screen with the following short line of symbols:
I can get into the BIOS since that part loads fine, but directly after that this ...
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IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD in NDIS.sys, with MemTest passing - what's the cause?
I just got a Blue Screen of Death with IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, in NDIS.sys.
My hardware:
Intel P4 Northwoord 2.4 GHz
Intel D850EMV2 board
4 x 256 MB RDRAM
other stuff
Context:
Computer was ...
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How to test for harddisk damage preventing it from booting?
I've experienced some problems with the booting of my laptop and I'm now unable to boot from the harddisk. In particular when booting I get this error message:
No bootable device -- insert boot disk ...
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Windows 8 0xe000009 - Cannot boot from DVD as well
Yesterday, I connected a phone (Nokia Lumia 800) of a friend to my computer. I then had to restart the computer. But during the restart, it got stuck to the black screen just before the login screen. ...
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ASUS ZENBOOK UX51VZ: BIOS fail after 204 update
I got some days ago a ZENBOOK UX51VZ, I hated Windows 8 therefor I successfully installed Windows 7 with all the drivers, everything was working fine; then I stupidly decided to update the BIOS to the ...
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My Toshiba Satellite will not boot after windows 8 installation (online)
I've tired to install windows 8 onto my Toshiba Satellite L745-S4210. Installing windows 8 was fine no errors (It told me to unstall some Toshiba programs) so after it was all done, I restarted my ...
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Computer does not BOOT, POST, show any image nor react to power button once turned on? [duplicate]
Well I have a Packard Bell Easy.. something, I don't know the model anymore, but it's a 6 years old Desktop and it worked pretty well until last night.
The problem is that when I boot it on the ...
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Computer doesn't boot after new psu installation
I've purchased a new PSU (Chieftec APS-550C) and installed it into my computer. After that my computer refuses to boot up: it spins up all the fans and drives, stays in this state for ~10 seconds ...
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Why does my Samsung Chronos 7 not boot anymore after installing Ubuntu?
I was just installing ubuntu on my new samsung chronos 7 NP700Z3C, the laptop was stucked at booting ubuntu so I pushed shutdown button for 5 seconds and turned it off. Now it does not boot. It just ...
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Windows 7 fails to start after shut down
I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit on a 2-year old Lenovo SL510 laptop.
This is the current issue:
Windows fails to start after the computer shuts down. It gets to the Windows logo load screen and ...
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Brand new Asus U500VZ bricked - can anyone shed light on why? [closed]
EDIT: Replaced question with this one.
I was wrestling with this, got to a certain point, changed one BIOS setting (I turned off CMS support), and the laptop died. Blank screen on power on, keyboard ...
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Computer stuck in a boot loop
I'm not positive what's causing my computer to be stuck in a boot loop where it turns on all the fans for about 2 seconds before restarting, but I do think I screwed up a couple of things and was ...
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Dell Inspiron 1525 - No boot sector on HDD
No boot sector in internal Hard disk.
No bootable devices - strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility
Press F5 to run on board diagnostics.
My Dell Inspiron 1525 doesn't boot at all. ...
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Laptop (hp dv4 media edition) not starting windows
My windows was running smoothly during an update of anti virus. After the download it required a restart and did that automatically. Once it restarted the computer, the machine got stuck at the ...
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NS Series Notebook Sony vaio - windows failed to start
I have Sony Vaio VGN-NS240E.
Windows Boot Manager
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.
To fix the problem:
1. Insert your ...
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Strange boot problems on 6 month old setup
I've already exhausted my knowledge on this one, so forgive me if this post is a bit long.
I built a computer 6 months ago for my wife and it worked fine until last week. Then it randomly shut down ...
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Windows 8 Hyper-V fails to boot Windows XP ISO
So I recently installed Windows 8 Professional on my computer and today I enabled Hyper-V with the intention of creating a Windows XP virtual machine.
I created the virtual machine with standard ...
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WIN7 constant BSOD 0x7B on boot, not producing any dump files where to go from here? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows 7 0x0000007B
So my one win 7 pc has been getting a BSOD on boot (roughly a sec after load screen starts) after a power failure. The complete stop code is
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Possible SSD failure after overclock
I (foolishly) attempted an overclock on my newly-upgraded (new mobo and SSD) rig, and now I cannot boot. The relevant components:
AMD Phenom II X4 965 - 3.4Ghz (overclocked 10%)
Kingston HyperX DDR3 ...
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Computer won't boot after applying thermal paste
I don't know what's wrong. My computer was on a bench and I used thermal paste (probably too much of it at first) and my computer still worked. But after I put everything back in the tower it didn't ...
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System won't boot if I connect SATA hard disk
I had an old PC with an Atom processor, two SATA hard disks with 40 GB and 160 GB each.
Recently I upgraded my PC, got a Gigabyte H61M DS2 Motherboard, 2 GB of RAM and Core I3 processor.
But ...
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Windows 8 boot loop after mounting from linux
I installed the release version of windows 8 professional (which I got through my university). I installed Ubuntu on another drive so I can select which drive to boot in the BIOS. All was well... ...
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Windows Defender Update KB915597 (Definition 1.135.415.0) > BSOD > Computer No Longer Starts [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
A Windows Update Prevented Live Discs From Working?
First off I'll state my system specs.
Acer Aspire M1100
Windows Vista Home Basic 32bit OEM
2 Gigs of DDR2 ram
...
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Fujitsu Siemens Laptop Problems
I've got a Fujitsu Siemens Laptop running XP and have had problems booting.
At first the message was to do with corrupt registry files, System, Security etc. I replaced all of the files with ones ...
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MacBook Pro (OSX Lion) - shutdown automatically before reaching login screen
When I try to lunch my MacBook Pro I can see a progress bar on loading screen. It goes to 1/15 or something like this and then it shut downs - I cannot reach even login screen. It happened to me 2 ...
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Troubleshooting a failure to boot
I have a system that has been working fine for a long time, and has suddenly decided not to boot.
By not booting, I mean nothing at all -- no post screen, no nothing. It powers up, the fans spin, ...
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“DQS training failed on previous boot”
I would like to ask if what are the explanations behind this "DQS training failed on previous boot" error? I was confused about this error. I tried googling it and tried those information; ...
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a pci-e card doesn't work with the other two graphic cards
A PC machine in the company has three 16x pci-e slots, let's call them A B C (A is closest to the CPU, C is furthest). There has been two graphic cards installed in it (gtx680 in A and gtx560 in C, ...
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GRUB: ELF sectors outside core
I just recently installed Xubuntu 12.04. Instantly after installing it I updated all my packages, however one package, grub-pc, failed to install. I'm not sure what caused it to fail, but here is the ...
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Acer Revo R3600 Won't POST
I powered off my Revo this afternoon to change the power strip, plugged in a second USB hard drive and booted it up, only to find the machine won't POST. It's been running happily as an HTPC for at ...
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UNetbootin installation of Ubuntu Server fails and restarts computer
I tried to install Ubuntu Server from a flash drive using UNetbootin, because my optical disc drive is broken. When I created the bootable drive using UNetbootin, there was no problem.
When I tried ...
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Windows 2000 Pro repair, does not fix, cannot clean install
I have a client machine (windows 2000 Pro) that fails to start up. The startup screen appears and the loading bar reaches 100% (full) then the system reboots.
Starting in safe mode does no better.. ...
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HD prevents me from booting Live CD
Short version: BSOD on Windows last night, cannot boot to Win or a live Linux CD, moving HD to another comp won't boot.
Update: Had a little success attaching hd to other comps via USB (or plugging ...
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Windows 7 - Disk Read Error, Boot Disk not mounting
Some background first (a little long):
A while ago, my desktop got stuck at the "logging off" screen (prior to shutdown, the machine was sluggish and I suspected some process making trouble). I ...
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Laptop does not boot?
I'm not very savvy when it comes to laptops. I have two identical laptops, old school Dell Latitude D410's. One works just fine, and the other does not boot at all. I have tried various things ...
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Troubleshooting Computer Failure
I'm usually pretty good at this but I'm a bit confused.
I'm on the internet and my computer turns off randomly. Okay, just turn it back on. Boots into bios just fine. No errors or warning signs. ...
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Server died in power outage - now won't boot
I've recently set up Ubuntu Server on an old machine I had around the house.
It worked really well and I even got it hooked up to a domain I had, but as I was only toying around with the idea of ...
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How do I restore Windows 7 Master Boot Disk Record without CD Drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Restore Win 7 MBR without Recovery/Install Disc
This is how to restore Windows 7 MBR (relies on CD Drive).
But I need to do this with a netbook, how do I restore the MBR ...
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64bit Dell stuck at login/splash screen
System: Dell Inspiron 1110 64bit, Windows 7.
Problem: When booting it'll reach the login/splash screen. Well almost, it shows the blue windows 7 splash screen image, the mouse (with loading symbol ...
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4 memory modules of the same kind not working?
I am trying to install 2 extra pairs of 2GB on my server, the motherboard is a GA-EP41-UD3L which is said to support up to 8GB and has 4 memory slots.
I have 4 memories of 2 GB being all of it:
...
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Laptop would not boot up suddenly w/out first opening dvd-drive? ('Cannot find operataing system' error mssg)
My MS Vista 64 Sony VAIO laptop suddenly gives an error when I try to boot up: Cannot find operating system' or some such wording.
I hear a clicking sound which sounds like it's coming from the dvd ...
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BSOD -> Disk Boot Failure -> Normal Start
Just finished putting together a new PC and am having a very unwelcome issue at startup. While this doesn't happend ever time, it happens most of the time.
Computer is running normally
Reboot ...
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Computer (Usually) Fails to Start, Clock Resets, Then is Great
Perhaps 3 years ago I built a nice gaming rig from new parts. About 2.5 years ago, it started to have trouble booting up and continues to have troubles to this day.
Typically, the first time it is ...
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Windows XP failed to boot in dual boot system
The problem is this: I have a 320gb HDD splitted in 4 partitions. When I first installed Windows XP I formatted the HDD in 3 (Windows system partition, Media partition and another one I left for ...
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Toshiba Equium A110-252 laptop won't boot Windows
I have a Toshiba Equium A110-252 laptop (XP Pro) which stopped booting a couple of weeks ago. The symptoms are that the laptop would display its DOS Toshiba splash screen, then the Windows (XP) boot ...
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My Macbook Pro doesn't boot up
My Macbook Pro suddenly stopped booting up properly. The following images are the images of the boot logs of the normal bootup and my bootup. I kind of know that it's not a hard drive problem because ...
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Windows 7 install corrupt after update
How do I fix a corrupt Windows 7 installation by hooking it up to a brand new Windows 7 install?
Installed some Windows 7 yesterday, mostly just optional fixes and it installed an update to my ...
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Windows 7 boot failure after update
Installed some windows 7 updates today, mostly just optional fixes and it installed an update to my IntelliType or IntelliPoint drivers (Keyboard & Mouse). It asked to reboot, computer gets to ...
