A couple weeks ago, my sister tried to turn on her computer and was greeted with a message saying "Reboot and select proper boot device." Going into the BIOS shows that her hard drive is still recognized and is the primary boot device; there was no other boot device plugged in.
I plugged in my DVD drive and tried to boot off a Windows 7 boot disk. It gets through loading files and to the Windows loading animation, then freezes there indefinitely, which means I cannot format the drive or otherwise interact with it.
The motherboard is an ASRock Z75 Pro3 (I am suspecting at this point that this part is faulty in some way). The hard drive is a Corsair Neutron XT 480GB CSSD.
I have tried:
0. Removing and replacing CMOS
1. Removing all unnecessary peripherals (no video or beeps with no RAM in the computer, oddly, so nothing but hard drive, CPU, and a stick of RAM)
2. Playing with boot order, no difference whether DVD drive or HDD is primary boot
3. Scrolling through BIOS aimlessly looking for a setting that might help
4. Tearing out my hair
I have not yet tried:
5. Throwing it out a window
If you guys have anything to add between step 4 and step 5, I'd be delighted to hear it. Let me know if there is any more info I can provide. Thank you for your help!
I plugged in my DVD drive and tried to boot off a Windows 7 boot disk. It gets through loading files and to the Windows loading animation, then freezes there indefinitely, which means I cannot format the drive or otherwise interact with it.
The motherboard is an ASRock Z75 Pro3 (I am suspecting at this point that this part is faulty in some way). The hard drive is a Corsair Neutron XT 480GB CSSD.
I have tried:
0. Removing and replacing CMOS
1. Removing all unnecessary peripherals (no video or beeps with no RAM in the computer, oddly, so nothing but hard drive, CPU, and a stick of RAM)
2. Playing with boot order, no difference whether DVD drive or HDD is primary boot
3. Scrolling through BIOS aimlessly looking for a setting that might help
4. Tearing out my hair
I have not yet tried:
5. Throwing it out a window
If you guys have anything to add between step 4 and step 5, I'd be delighted to hear it. Let me know if there is any more info I can provide. Thank you for your help!
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