booting windows problem

[Jake]

Loads the bios then just freezes with a black screen and a -

Try f8 for recovery however it doesn't work.

Its windows xp prof

[glenn]

its quite hard to write a proper response at work but

put your windows disk in and press f2 on the bios screen and set it to boot from cd

does it boot to the cd?

[Jake]

Don't have a windows disk unfortunately Doesnt F2 go in to the BIOS?

[Milky C]

Depends on the manufacturer, get on another pc and burn a windows iso to disk that will let it boot from disk using one of the f keys, if that doesnt work id be leaning towards a fudged motherboard

[Jake]

Googled the problem, could be a faulty mb, PSU or ram.

Will have a fiddle about tonight and look for any signs

[iconic944ss]

You can also build your own bootable DVD without having an original disc via :

www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

It worked a treat for me, minimal environment though.

Good luck

[glenn]

Oct 18, 2011 10:53:43 GMT Jake said:

Don't have a windows disk unfortunately Doesnt F2 go in to the BIOS?

usually yes but in there you can set it to boot from cd before hard disk. if it doesnt work you are right its one of the 3 things you mentioned, if it does it could be fault hard disk

[Jake]

Oct 18, 2011 12:25:55 GMT glenn said:

Oct 18, 2011 10:53:43 GMT Jake said:

Don't have a windows disk unfortunately Doesnt F2 go in to the BIOS?

usually yes but in there you can set it to boot from cd before hard disk. if it doesnt work you are right its one of the 3 things you mentioned, if it does it could be fault hard disk

if in the bios the hard drive is recognised can you rule out it being a HD issue?

[Milky C]

Oct 18, 2011 12:40:30 GMT Jake said:

Oct 18, 2011 12:25:55 GMT glenn said:

usually yes but in there you can set it to boot from cd before hard disk. if it doesnt work you are right its one of the 3 things you mentioned, if it does it could be fault hard disk

if in the bios the hard drive is recognised can you rule out it being a HD issue?

Nope, it sees it as there doesnt mean its working just that its responding to power, it could still be knackered

[muddybunny]

it is the windows gremlin he was here yesterday ... turn it on and off a billion times hit it a few times swore at it alot and today he seems to of legged it it obviously to your comp

[Wheelnut]

Oct 18, 2011 8:02:05 GMT Jake said:

Loads the bios then just freezes with a black screen and a -

Try f8 for recovery however it doesn't work.

Its windows xp prof

Finger in the air but possibly a graphics card issue

[Jake]

Oct 18, 2011 14:57:15 GMT Wheelnut said:

Oct 18, 2011 8:02:05 GMT Jake said:

Loads the bios then just freezes with a black screen and a -

Try f8 for recovery however it doesn't work.

Its windows xp prof

Finger in the air but possibly a graphics card issue

tried that with using the old one still doesnt work.

here a vid of my problem

[iconic944ss]

If you look closely at your vid Jake, nothing can be seen after "Checking NVRAM" - could be a pointer?

[steve46]

Ignore them all Jake this is all you need to sort it

[Gracemissmetalgear]

I had a problem similar to this when my graphics card was dieing

[Milky C]

The nvram could either point to the ram or once again the motherboard being faulty, reseat the ram and see if the same issue occurs, its not conclusive but if that fixes it obviously it was the problem. If it doesnt it could still be either

[ZX6-Chris]

When you press f8 does anything happen or just stay black?

[Jake]

It just loads to the black screen at the end of the vid. F2 into the bios works and f11

[ZX6-Chris]

Can't view vid on my iPod in Spain ha

how many sticks of memory you got? If more then a single stick try just having one and swapping dimm slots with just one

If you have spare hard drive try plugging that in re installing windows via disc

If the spare hard drive don't work then chances are it is motherboard or CPU and in my opinion you may aswell upgrade Them both anyway instead of replacing the one

[Jake]

update -

removed the old hard drive and tried another which booted fine.

Will be buying a new hd tomorrow ;D lost all my photos etc tho