- Aug 6, 2014
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Alright people. I've been working on this problem all day and I'm completely at my wit's end.
About a month ago, my power supply died. It was a Corsair TX650. Today, I bought a Corsair CX750M. After hooking everything up and making sure everything was in place, I turned on my PC and hear a loud pop, but the PC continues to start. Once the "Starting Windows" screen comes up, the PC shuts itself off after the logo comes together. After restarting the PC a few more times, it either turns itself off after the Windows logo comes together, or freezes. After about 4 other tries to normally boot it and performing a memory test to make sure RAM wasn't the problem, I tried booting into safe mode and it was able to reach the desktop. After explaining the problem to some friends, they said that it was possible that my copy of Windows was corrupted when the PC was randomly shut off when my power supply died. So I reformatted the drive, and attempted to reinstall Windows. When booting from the disk, it would still freeze at the "Starting Windows" screen, but I could get past it by booting the disk itself in safe mode. I formatted the drive, and installation ran smoothly until the PC had to restart. When it got to "Setup is Updating Registry Settings", it would freeze just like it would when the "Starting Windows" screen came up, so I couldn't complete setup.
So after seeing that I couldn't reinstall Windows on my PC, I took my SSD and moved it to another PC to see if the hard drive was the problem. After hooking it up, I tried reinstalling Windows and it completed without a problem, so I know it wasn't the SSD that was damaged from whatever popped. After that, I re-inserted the drive back into the problem PC, hoping that I could at least boot into Safe Mode to see if it was perhaps a driver problem, but now I get a message that says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device" when I power on my machine. I tried removing all other hard drives connecting it to the PC and made sure it was plugged into SATA port 0, and it still gives me the message, even though my BIOS recognizes the drive.
Today has been nothing short of absolutely irritating, so ANY help AT ALL would be highly appreciated.
SPECS:
MSI Military Class II P67A-C45 Mainboard
Nvidia GeForce GTX 560
Intel Core I5 Processor (sorry, not sure exactly sure which model)
Patriot 8GB RAM (sorry, not sure exactly sure which model)
Corsair CX750M PSU
Samsung 840 250 GB SSD
About a month ago, my power supply died. It was a Corsair TX650. Today, I bought a Corsair CX750M. After hooking everything up and making sure everything was in place, I turned on my PC and hear a loud pop, but the PC continues to start. Once the "Starting Windows" screen comes up, the PC shuts itself off after the logo comes together. After restarting the PC a few more times, it either turns itself off after the Windows logo comes together, or freezes. After about 4 other tries to normally boot it and performing a memory test to make sure RAM wasn't the problem, I tried booting into safe mode and it was able to reach the desktop. After explaining the problem to some friends, they said that it was possible that my copy of Windows was corrupted when the PC was randomly shut off when my power supply died. So I reformatted the drive, and attempted to reinstall Windows. When booting from the disk, it would still freeze at the "Starting Windows" screen, but I could get past it by booting the disk itself in safe mode. I formatted the drive, and installation ran smoothly until the PC had to restart. When it got to "Setup is Updating Registry Settings", it would freeze just like it would when the "Starting Windows" screen came up, so I couldn't complete setup.
So after seeing that I couldn't reinstall Windows on my PC, I took my SSD and moved it to another PC to see if the hard drive was the problem. After hooking it up, I tried reinstalling Windows and it completed without a problem, so I know it wasn't the SSD that was damaged from whatever popped. After that, I re-inserted the drive back into the problem PC, hoping that I could at least boot into Safe Mode to see if it was perhaps a driver problem, but now I get a message that says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device" when I power on my machine. I tried removing all other hard drives connecting it to the PC and made sure it was plugged into SATA port 0, and it still gives me the message, even though my BIOS recognizes the drive.
Today has been nothing short of absolutely irritating, so ANY help AT ALL would be highly appreciated.
SPECS:
MSI Military Class II P67A-C45 Mainboard
Nvidia GeForce GTX 560
Intel Core I5 Processor (sorry, not sure exactly sure which model)
Patriot 8GB RAM (sorry, not sure exactly sure which model)
Corsair CX750M PSU
Samsung 840 250 GB SSD
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