A problem one morn..

[Foehammer2003]

...where by my PC wont boot up.

POSTs with no problems, where the harddrive would usually kick in it doesn't, although to touch, you can feel that its on. I have tried a brand new SATA cable. reseated the power and data cables, removed my fairly modest overclock, reset CMOS, swapped RAM and given it a little kick.

Any ideas what it might be? I dont have any spare hardware to test individual components, but last night i was on the interwebz and a bit of FPS gaming no problems, shut down as normal and mains switched off overnight.

Spec:

QX6700 @ 3.1Ghz
Gigabyte P35-DS4
2x2Gb OCZ Gold DDR2
Gigabyte GTX 560ti OC
250gb Hitachi Deskstar 7200
750w PSU
Win 7 Home P

Please any ideas?

 

[Foehammer2003]

Thanks guys, i will try repair when i get back from town. The thing is the screen just stays black after the BIO~S splash and after it goes past verifying the DMI data pool/PCI checks or whatever and at the point right after that where Windows would usually kick in its animation.

I didn't think it would be likely that it would be the OS as it shut down no probs and has been like a rock, only a fresh install about two weeks ago too, with little installed.

Do you think Ultimate Boot disk will help? I ask as i have it.

Thanks again

 

[Foehammer2003]

Well its working now, did a repair on it. Strange this though it appeared in BIOS but running diags from ultimate boot it could not be found at all. All it saw was my DVD drive

When i use speedfan to check drive it gives me 98/98 which says is fine.

I think it may be on its way out. Oh well its a good excuse to get a SSD next week, if not sooner.

the HDD is quite noisy, i'm wondering whether its seen better days