PC Blue Screen on Startup

MacD_0

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I recently transported my PC from my house to someone else's and it was working fine until I got back home. When I plugged it back in and tried to turn it on it would power up and the fans would start running but there would be no beeps, no picture on the monitor and no power to any external devices. After a few unsuccessful attempts I opened it up and started tinkering around a bit, just when it seemed like I wasn't going to get it working I removed the wireless internet card and for some strange reason it now turns on! But the problem is just when it gets to the Windows logo it gets a blue screen error and restarts. I've pretty much narrowed it down to the CPU or motherboard (possibly RAM?), I changed the power supply, removed the graphics card, changed hard drives, moved it to a different power source and removed all non-essential cables, but none of these seemed to work.

I'm going to take it to a computer repair store in the next few days and I'm worried they're just going to tell me to replace something, which I'd like to avoid. So if anybody has any ideas on what i could do to fix this problem it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
 

yzchamp

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What's the blue screen error? Try resetting bios to defaults.
If you take the ram out does it throw a beep code? Try each stick, one by one, if it posts your ram is probably good.
You changed the hdds, before the blue screen? To get it to post? Are you sure the windows on the new hdd is not corrupt
 

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The blue screen flashes really quickly, I'll get back to you on that.
Yes I reset bios to defaults.
It beeps when I take out the ram, so I guess that's not it.
The HDD I swapped in was from another computer, the exact same thing happened except the Windows logo loaded slightly further. I have a feeling the Windows on it might be corrupt but it boots fine on my other computer. I'm to do a fresh install of Windows on it soon anyway.
 

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This is the exact message on the blue screen: (I think :??:)

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check for viruses on you computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption and then restart your computer.

Technical information:

*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFF880009A97E8, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)
 

yzchamp

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Looks like this error is hard drive related says Google. Can't boot up properly, which is kinda what I thought. Hmm does the hdd show up in bios? Is it set to be the top in boot priority? I'd try a windows repair if you have the disc.

I think the codes in parenthasis ( I'll Google them when Im done trying to fix mine ). Mean your hdd drivers aren't correct, which would happen if you brought it from another computer - it has that computers drivers. I think were narrowing it down to a windows issue. Well, a hard drive issue causing windows not to boot. I'd put the windows disc in and try to boot from that
 

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