Stuck in BIOS(?) Loop restarting without ever booting

tufaraway

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Feb 3, 2016
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Stuck in BIOS(?) loop at start up. Get a PCI Devices Listing and then verifying DMI Pool Data, then restarts all over. Pulled hard drive and tried to boot from a Windows 7 CD when it requesting system disc, but no luck. Won't accept disc I have and don't know where to start on this. I would appreciate any starting steps that would get me through the loop.

UPDATE: NZXT Alienware case with Gigabyte ATX motherboard GA-G31M-Es2L, 4Gb of DDR2 RAM(has 2 Corsair XMS2), NVIDIA P1310 graphics card, Seagate Barricuda 500Gb hard drive model 7200.12(SATA connections), DVD drive has adapter on back to receive SATA cables.
 

tufaraway

Reputable
Feb 3, 2016
2
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4,510
System was given to me with no history. System won't fully boot, so I'll be trying to get information off the hardware by eye. I'll go work on that and repost. thank you.

UPDATE: NZXT Alienware case with Gigabyte ATX motherboard GA-G31M-Es2L, 4Gb of DDR2 RAM(has 2 Corsair XMS2), NVIDIA P1310 graphics card, Seagate Barricuda 500Gb hard drive model 7200.12(SATA connections), DVD drive has adapter on back to receive SATA cables.