Firstly, Thank you for taking time to read this thread. I'm in difficulty and have no idea what to do next. Any help would be appreciated.
Firstly, My system specs:
CPU: AMD phenom ii x4 965 3.40 GHz
RAM: 2x 4 GB DDR3
SSD: OCZ-VERTEX4 ATA Device (120GB)
HDD: ST3000DM001 (2 TB) (Seagate)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX (At the moment, see below)
MoBo: GA-790XTA-UD4
PSU: 750W (Respectable make, but forget which brand)
OS: Win 7 Home Premium x64
So, I've checked a lot of forums and troubleshooters and can't seem to find any help. I haven't been able to find any specific solutions to to this problem, but still, apologies if this is covered elsewhere.
The story so far: A few weeks ago, my AMD Sapphire TOXIC HD 5850 1GB GDDR5 Graphics card stopped working. It would crash on loading websites and wouldn't even play games. I had downloaded some software before this, but unfortunately didn't have a restore point. Some forums suggested that the drivers may have corrupted, so I re-downloaded the drivers. However, it eventually got to the point where the computer would reset immediately after the windows flag appeared.
Not being able to fix this, I swapped it with the (spare) graphics card above. This allowed me to use the computer as normal, but I wanted to fix the problem with the original GC, so I rebooted windows from my installation disc. All worked well until a reset was required by a fresh download of AVG.
From then on, the computer won't boot to windows. I tried to repair windows with the disc, no good. I've tried a fresh install of windows, all goes well until the "expanding files/installing features" stage, where the computer resets and then hangs.
Tried a second fresh install, same thing. Now, I'm running through an old recovered version accessed through F12. But worryingly, there are now 4 installs of Win 7 to chose from (none of boot) as well as the recovered version.
All this makes me think it is some kind of boot problem, (only hangs on startup) but I now don't know where to turn.
For Info, the Error message I receive is:
Windows failed to start.... (please ask if full transcription is necessary)
File: \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc000014c
Info: An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data.
Other things I've tried:
Formating the SSD with device manager before reinstalling windows. (Same problem)
Checking the SSD with scan disc, no errors reported.
Swapping RAM sticks around and also using each one separately.
Windows Memory diagnostic tool
Haven't tried:
Installing on the 2TB HDD because all my stuff is backed up to there.
So, If anyone can suggest anything else to resolve this, I'd be very grateful. Many thanks in advance,
Andy
Edit: For error code and "what I've tried"
Firstly, My system specs:
CPU: AMD phenom ii x4 965 3.40 GHz
RAM: 2x 4 GB DDR3
SSD: OCZ-VERTEX4 ATA Device (120GB)
HDD: ST3000DM001 (2 TB) (Seagate)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX (At the moment, see below)
MoBo: GA-790XTA-UD4
PSU: 750W (Respectable make, but forget which brand)
OS: Win 7 Home Premium x64
So, I've checked a lot of forums and troubleshooters and can't seem to find any help. I haven't been able to find any specific solutions to to this problem, but still, apologies if this is covered elsewhere.
The story so far: A few weeks ago, my AMD Sapphire TOXIC HD 5850 1GB GDDR5 Graphics card stopped working. It would crash on loading websites and wouldn't even play games. I had downloaded some software before this, but unfortunately didn't have a restore point. Some forums suggested that the drivers may have corrupted, so I re-downloaded the drivers. However, it eventually got to the point where the computer would reset immediately after the windows flag appeared.
Not being able to fix this, I swapped it with the (spare) graphics card above. This allowed me to use the computer as normal, but I wanted to fix the problem with the original GC, so I rebooted windows from my installation disc. All worked well until a reset was required by a fresh download of AVG.
From then on, the computer won't boot to windows. I tried to repair windows with the disc, no good. I've tried a fresh install of windows, all goes well until the "expanding files/installing features" stage, where the computer resets and then hangs.
Tried a second fresh install, same thing. Now, I'm running through an old recovered version accessed through F12. But worryingly, there are now 4 installs of Win 7 to chose from (none of boot) as well as the recovered version.
All this makes me think it is some kind of boot problem, (only hangs on startup) but I now don't know where to turn.
For Info, the Error message I receive is:
Windows failed to start.... (please ask if full transcription is necessary)
File: \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc000014c
Info: An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data.
Other things I've tried:
Formating the SSD with device manager before reinstalling windows. (Same problem)
Checking the SSD with scan disc, no errors reported.
Swapping RAM sticks around and also using each one separately.
Windows Memory diagnostic tool
Haven't tried:
Installing on the 2TB HDD because all my stuff is backed up to there.
So, If anyone can suggest anything else to resolve this, I'd be very grateful. Many thanks in advance,
Andy
Edit: For error code and "what I've tried"
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