Hi there.
Moved all my existing hardware (see sig) from my old Chieftec case to a nice shiny Lian Li.
Took all the usual precautions, anti-static wrist strap etc.
Tried to re-assemble machine in the new case, as it was in the old case.
Even to plugging sata HDs into the same sockets and PCI card in same etc. Only thing just "shoved in any which way", were the USB devices (6 in total I think).
On the first cold boot, fans all spin, mobo beeps once, appears to POST ok and the "Windows starting" logo appears. Screen usually goes blank, then the login screen should appear. But screen stays blank. WHOOPS.
Press restart button on PC and it goes through the normal power on cycle as above, but then comes up with the screen warning you that Windows did not shut down correctly. Giving you two options, to do a repair, or start normally.
So I select "repair". It then tells you to stick the Windows dic in and restart the PC. Below this is the following message.
"The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible".
O'dear thinks I.
So I stick my Windows disk in and after it loads it's files. I select the repair option. Almost immediately it tells me the boot file is corrupt and it will repair it. This is all it tries to do... IE. it does not offer anything else.
So I think it's sorted. Until the next day and same cold boot problem. and same message about "the boot selection failed.........."
So I try putting Windows disk in again and try a repair. This time, no warning about the boot file, but it offers me the chance to restore to a previous date/time, I decline this and it runs a load of other checks / tests. Which it appears to pass. Accept for some sort of check sum failure right at the end. IE. It offers no solution!
But if you ignore the cold boot failure and do a hardware restart (press button on top of PC) and tell it to start Windows normally. It loads Windows fine. You can then do whatever you like (games, bench marks etc. etc. etc.) and all appears well. It's just from a cold start it throws a wobbly. You can also do a software restart (IE. START, shut down options / restart) and that's also fine.
All the same hardware had been running fine in the previous case for about 8 months. Not a single problem. Rock solid 100% stable.
I've checked all cabling (several times), reset BIOS to optimal defaults, restricted BOOT order to just the hard drive. All temps appear fine, Intel Burn Test works a treal, Furmark, 3Dmar Vantage, games .... everything.
Just at a loss to know what I could have done moving the components from one case to another.
Suggestions anyone??? Any help would be much appreciated.
Notes
- PSU is only around 2 years old and been fine before this. So doubt it's that!?
- No message in the Event Viewer. Other than the one pointing out "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. ".
- No components were altered, or changed.
Moved all my existing hardware (see sig) from my old Chieftec case to a nice shiny Lian Li.
Took all the usual precautions, anti-static wrist strap etc.
Tried to re-assemble machine in the new case, as it was in the old case.
Even to plugging sata HDs into the same sockets and PCI card in same etc. Only thing just "shoved in any which way", were the USB devices (6 in total I think).
On the first cold boot, fans all spin, mobo beeps once, appears to POST ok and the "Windows starting" logo appears. Screen usually goes blank, then the login screen should appear. But screen stays blank. WHOOPS.
Press restart button on PC and it goes through the normal power on cycle as above, but then comes up with the screen warning you that Windows did not shut down correctly. Giving you two options, to do a repair, or start normally.
So I select "repair". It then tells you to stick the Windows dic in and restart the PC. Below this is the following message.
"The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible".
O'dear thinks I.
So I stick my Windows disk in and after it loads it's files. I select the repair option. Almost immediately it tells me the boot file is corrupt and it will repair it. This is all it tries to do... IE. it does not offer anything else.
So I think it's sorted. Until the next day and same cold boot problem. and same message about "the boot selection failed.........."
So I try putting Windows disk in again and try a repair. This time, no warning about the boot file, but it offers me the chance to restore to a previous date/time, I decline this and it runs a load of other checks / tests. Which it appears to pass. Accept for some sort of check sum failure right at the end. IE. It offers no solution!
But if you ignore the cold boot failure and do a hardware restart (press button on top of PC) and tell it to start Windows normally. It loads Windows fine. You can then do whatever you like (games, bench marks etc. etc. etc.) and all appears well. It's just from a cold start it throws a wobbly. You can also do a software restart (IE. START, shut down options / restart) and that's also fine.
All the same hardware had been running fine in the previous case for about 8 months. Not a single problem. Rock solid 100% stable.
I've checked all cabling (several times), reset BIOS to optimal defaults, restricted BOOT order to just the hard drive. All temps appear fine, Intel Burn Test works a treal, Furmark, 3Dmar Vantage, games .... everything.
Just at a loss to know what I could have done moving the components from one case to another.
Suggestions anyone??? Any help would be much appreciated.
Notes
- PSU is only around 2 years old and been fine before this. So doubt it's that!?
- No message in the Event Viewer. Other than the one pointing out "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. ".
- No components were altered, or changed.
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