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MrPetaah

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Hi everyone!

I have a hardware dysfunction with a pc, and I am that much of a noob to not be able to recognize which faulty component I need to replace (if I knew which, I would have placed the thread in the corresponding subforum). This is why I would kindly ask for the help of you guys to identify my specific problem :)

Here are the screens my computer gave me, taken with an external camera, in chronological order:

After being given the usual prompt to "Start Windows normally" (without the faulty white lines as shown in picture 2), the first bootup yielded this weird take on a Blue Screen of Death.
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After another reboot the white lines came along a step earlier. Picking "Repair during startup" doesn't yield any results, of course (it's in Danish btw).
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And here's finally Windows' last futile attempts to figure out what the heck is wrong.
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...and to conclude, I think I have rebooted my pc too many times by now, and perhaps totally fried my CPU or GPU (or whatever it may be), as the previous screens does not show up at all anymore (except for the basic "Start Windows normally"/"Repair Windows" menu) - all I get now in the end is a complete black screen with only a white mouse cursor to keep it company.

Thanks in advance! :D

Specs:
OS: Windows Home Premium 7 64bit
CPU: Intel Core i7 870 2,93 GHz
RAM: 8GB Kingston ValueRAM DDR3 1333 MHz
Motherboard: MSI P55-CD53
GPU: Gainward GeForce GTX 460 1GB
 
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so the bios screen looks normal its when window takes over? when you use the windows disk for the repair set bios to boot from optical drive insert windows disk reboot and follow prompts for repair
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I had a guy come in with this and ended up being he removed a part of the default windows driver and rebooted to this issue as like what was shown I got just enough display to get to backup and restore and it repaired what was removed and was able to get it back to normal --
 
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Do you have backups of your files? If not, create a Linux Live boot disk, copy your files out to an external drive. Then using a Windows disk, run a Repair setup of Windows. If you are not dealing with a hardware issued like a bad hard drive, RAM, video card, etc..., that should get your system back to uable. If the Repair setup fails, you can do a full setup of Windows but that will wipe your data and programs so you will need to re-install anything you had on there.
 
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Backup of files will not be necessary - there luckily isn't anything on the computer of any particular value.

I assume you mean the Windows Repair Disc that one needs to burn to an external optical disc from Windows itself to be able to use? Yeah, I sadly do not have one - and I cannot access the operating system at all :(
I tried inserting a Windows install DVD into the optical drive though, but the usual "Press any key to boot from DVD" didn't show.

This is all the system repair I know of in Windows. I am generally more of a Mac guy (and am in some aspects of Windows quite noobish - particularly when it comes to hardware components). This PC is my brother's which I promised I would take a look at.

...I myself was so sure it would be a hardware defect - I didn't expect you guys to think it could be a problem solvable through a system repair (which apparently is harder to accomplish than it sounds).
A missing driver, Junkeymonkey? How did you restore it/repair the computer?

And thanks for your replies, guys - you're the best!
 
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MrPetaah

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New turn of events:
In fact, after having written the original post, I cannot seem to replicate the "noise" on the screen anymore. It just won't appear again.
The farthest I can get is the Startup Repair (as shown in the third picture, but without the noise), which Windows recommends sometimes - it always fails after 15-30 minutes of 'reparation' and prompts me to restart.
The other times I restart I always end up with the complete black screen and the standard mouse cursor, as previously mentioned.

I CAN enter the BIOS and to my inexperienced eyes it looks unaffected.
Again, after all my multiple restarts, the noise on the screen seems to have disappeared (at least for the moment)
 
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MrPetaah

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Changing the boot settings to the optical drive in the BIOS setup worked! It finally let me "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD"! So now I see that the Windows install disc and the repair disc is one and the same (it confused me earlier). Repairing from it didn't yield any results, so now I am trying a clean Windows install. Wish me luck :)
The noise onscreen has yet to show itself.
 
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MrPetaah

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Wauw. It seems that a complete system reinstall was all it took after all. And I who was so sure that it was a faulty video card.

Hang-the-9 and Junkeymonkey, you were both right in the end. Thank you for your help.
I have tried gaming on the system now and it works flawlessly. Awesome!

Again, thanks everyone! :D
 
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some give advice on removing drivers that to me go way beyond what it should take and can remove the built in windows base driver and when they reboot its like you said above cause theres nothing for the card to run on

glad you got it going and hope it stays that way for you
 
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