- May 4, 2013
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Hey guys,
About a week ago I had an issue where my computer suddenly shut off and on start up would no longer POST. I replaced the graphics card, the RAM, and even the motherboard to no avail. Only when I put everything back onto my old motherboard did my computer start working again, so I'm guessing things just needed reseating or something, even though no parts had been added or removed prior to the issue.
Now, even though I can get past POST now, when I try to boot from my hard drive containing Windows 8, it blue screens and tells me "the operating system couldn't be loaded because the kernel is missing or contains errors".
Of course, I automatically assumed that I just needed to run my boot CD and get everything fixed up, but the SAME error comes up when I boot from my recovery disk! It's the ultimate irony when your boot disk tells you that "you'll need to use the recovery tools on your installation media" to fix your installation media.
So what could this possibly be? I'm convinced it's still a hardware problem because recovery CDs don't just tend to crash and the disk itself works in every other computer I've tried.
I even tried switching the PSU, which makes no difference. The only thing I haven't tried switching is the CPU, but I'd rather not if there's a chance it's not the issue, because it's a socket 775 and they're pretty hard to get hold of nowadays.
Is anyone familiar with this issue? I'm still in "troubleshoot for no-POST" mode, even though that isn't the problem anymore, so I may need some outside perspective to help me think outside the box.
Update: Switching CPU did nothing, tried booting from flash drive, still crashes. Tried just using an empty HDD and it told me "PXE-E61: Media test failure".
Any thoughts?
About a week ago I had an issue where my computer suddenly shut off and on start up would no longer POST. I replaced the graphics card, the RAM, and even the motherboard to no avail. Only when I put everything back onto my old motherboard did my computer start working again, so I'm guessing things just needed reseating or something, even though no parts had been added or removed prior to the issue.
Now, even though I can get past POST now, when I try to boot from my hard drive containing Windows 8, it blue screens and tells me "the operating system couldn't be loaded because the kernel is missing or contains errors".
Of course, I automatically assumed that I just needed to run my boot CD and get everything fixed up, but the SAME error comes up when I boot from my recovery disk! It's the ultimate irony when your boot disk tells you that "you'll need to use the recovery tools on your installation media" to fix your installation media.
So what could this possibly be? I'm convinced it's still a hardware problem because recovery CDs don't just tend to crash and the disk itself works in every other computer I've tried.
I even tried switching the PSU, which makes no difference. The only thing I haven't tried switching is the CPU, but I'd rather not if there's a chance it's not the issue, because it's a socket 775 and they're pretty hard to get hold of nowadays.
Is anyone familiar with this issue? I'm still in "troubleshoot for no-POST" mode, even though that isn't the problem anymore, so I may need some outside perspective to help me think outside the box.
Update: Switching CPU did nothing, tried booting from flash drive, still crashes. Tried just using an empty HDD and it told me "PXE-E61: Media test failure".
Any thoughts?
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