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Earlier today my friend wanted me to upgrade his pc with my old pc parts. My old parts were all in working condition. We switched MOBOs, including processor and RAM. We also switched to the GTX 650Ti which he had laying around. We finally completed the switch, booted up, and bam. Blue screen. I couldn't even get into safe mode. It will get to the initial loading screen with the bar along the bottom, wait about 5 seconds, then crash. The error says something about viruses - checking and cleaning the disc, etc. We tried booting from my old HDD with windows 7, which worked perfectly fine.
Things to note:
-The hard drive with vista is a SATA 1.0/IDE drive. WD2500 250GB.
-The MOBO is a Black series A780GM-A (I think) with SATA 2.0 and PCI E 2.0 (Remember the GTX 650Ti is PCIe 3.0, could this be a problem?)
-The front panel cables were a little crazy to install, as it was an older case. Could this be a cause?
-He mentioned something about "AVG TuneUp" which may be the cause? Virus/malware?
Overall I think some virus corrupted the drive. I told him he should get a brand new drive with a fresh install of Windows 7/8 and we could transfer data from his old drive.
I don't exactly want to force him into buying $150 of stuff when he doesn't have to. So is there any fix for this? Thanks a lot in advance!
Earlier today my friend wanted me to upgrade his pc with my old pc parts. My old parts were all in working condition. We switched MOBOs, including processor and RAM. We also switched to the GTX 650Ti which he had laying around. We finally completed the switch, booted up, and bam. Blue screen. I couldn't even get into safe mode. It will get to the initial loading screen with the bar along the bottom, wait about 5 seconds, then crash. The error says something about viruses - checking and cleaning the disc, etc. We tried booting from my old HDD with windows 7, which worked perfectly fine.
Things to note:
-The hard drive with vista is a SATA 1.0/IDE drive. WD2500 250GB.
-The MOBO is a Black series A780GM-A (I think) with SATA 2.0 and PCI E 2.0 (Remember the GTX 650Ti is PCIe 3.0, could this be a problem?)
-The front panel cables were a little crazy to install, as it was an older case. Could this be a cause?
-He mentioned something about "AVG TuneUp" which may be the cause? Virus/malware?
Overall I think some virus corrupted the drive. I told him he should get a brand new drive with a fresh install of Windows 7/8 and we could transfer data from his old drive.
I don't exactly want to force him into buying $150 of stuff when he doesn't have to. So is there any fix for this? Thanks a lot in advance!
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