Annoying reboot loop

[notcpupro]

So, I have a pc that goes through a boot loop at the windows loading screen. I have windows 7 loaded on the drive and it is functional in a different tower. It's an msi 7312 motherboard. I ran the windows memory diagnostic in advanced and the pc reset around 93% (it hadn't shown any errors yet). i am able to run puppy linux from the dvd drive. I can't boot from a usb stick to try to flash the bios (is that what i should even do?) any help at all would be awesome! thanks

 

[crewton]

You can't swap windows 7 around like a linux flash drive. Windows will only boot from the motherboard it was installed with. It works on the other tower because it sees the motherboard, but on the computer with the MSI 7312 it doesn't recognize that board and will keep rebooting until it sees the other motherboard...reinstalling windows on that PC will fix the problem but then it won't work on the other computer.

 

[notcpupro]

awesome, thank you for the answer! i'll install windows 7 on a different hard drive tomorrow on the problem tower to hopefully fix the issue.

 

[PanicMaster85]

1) are your drivers updated?

2) Try updating your bios
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/308518-30-update-bios
3) How old is this build?

4) Could it be over heating?

5) try running a GPU and CPU stress tester(use seperately) and monitor temps with gpu-z(for graphics card temp) and core temp(for cpu)
GPU
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/

CPU
http://www.numberworld.org/y-cruncher/

GPU-Z
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

Coretemp
http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

5) Could your ram be having issues? run memtest
http://www.memtest.org/

6) Check your hard driver/SSD
-Start menu
-Computer
-Right click main disk(for me it is C
-Properties
-Tools
-Error checker

7) Run burnintest
http://www.passmark.com/download/bit_download.htm

8) After it crashes run who crashed
http://www.passmark.com/download/bit_download.htm

hope this helps

 

[notcpupro]

IT WORKED! I strugld seraching for an answer for too long. Thanks crewton. Installed i fresh to th hard drive an i'm glden.

You can't swap windows 7 around like a linux flash drive. Windows will only boot from the motherboard it was installed with. It works on the other tower because it sees the motherboard, but on the computer with the MSI 7312 it doesn't recognize that board and will keep rebooting until it sees the other motherboard...reinstalling windows on that PC will fix the problem but then it won't work on the other computer.