Hey everyone.
I built my brother a computer about a year and a half ago and up until 3 months ago or so, things have been fine.
About 3 months ago, the computer started randomly turning off after random intervals. I gave it a good clean-out with compressed air and set the CPU to run at a max of 3.3 Ghz, and that seems to have cleared out the shutting down problem.
A few weeks later, we noticed that whenever the computer booted, it was insanely slow to boot. I mean like 15 minutes slow, and then once I got in, the computer was unusable and keeps freezing for another 20 minutes. This was pretty abnormal as before this, it booted in a good ~1 minute and was usable immediately after entering the desktop.
I followed this guide: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems and I also did a reformat and installed Windows 8.1. It worked fine for the next ~2 days, and then I got the same slow boot issue I had before.
Now, I get the issue that whenever I try to turn it on, it gets stuck at the Windows loading screen, gets stuck on "Windows is repairing disk issues", or I get 0xC000021a error. I also get an error screen saying there is no booting drive. I can't get it past any of those.
I'm at a complete loss, I'm not sure what other steps I can take. Thanks for the help everyone. Here's the specs:
http://imgur.com/VoIu3mj
I built my brother a computer about a year and a half ago and up until 3 months ago or so, things have been fine.
About 3 months ago, the computer started randomly turning off after random intervals. I gave it a good clean-out with compressed air and set the CPU to run at a max of 3.3 Ghz, and that seems to have cleared out the shutting down problem.
A few weeks later, we noticed that whenever the computer booted, it was insanely slow to boot. I mean like 15 minutes slow, and then once I got in, the computer was unusable and keeps freezing for another 20 minutes. This was pretty abnormal as before this, it booted in a good ~1 minute and was usable immediately after entering the desktop.
I followed this guide: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems and I also did a reformat and installed Windows 8.1. It worked fine for the next ~2 days, and then I got the same slow boot issue I had before.
Now, I get the issue that whenever I try to turn it on, it gets stuck at the Windows loading screen, gets stuck on "Windows is repairing disk issues", or I get 0xC000021a error. I also get an error screen saying there is no booting drive. I can't get it past any of those.
I'm at a complete loss, I'm not sure what other steps I can take. Thanks for the help everyone. Here's the specs:
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