Computer won't boot into windows

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A friend has a problem with his computer. I've had a look at it and this is the situation:

Some cable tied wires had come loose and were resting against the CPU fan, slowing it down. He didin't know this, but heard the sound of what sounded like a fan dying, and windows kept crashing and then stopped loading altogether.

Now, with that blockage removed, the fan seems to be operating okay, but the computer won't boot up.

It starts up, on screen appears the windows logo and the flashing line showing its loading - and then it stays there, never getting any further.

I tried loading into a safe mode, and the text appeared on the screen showing all the drivers being loaded, and then it just stopped and got no further.

Is his CPU roasted? Is it fixable or will he have to replace the CPU? Could there be another cause?
 
Take out and USB drives or CD's/DVD's, Also take out your mouse, keyboard, Headphones and other accessories of the sort.

My laptop has the same problem sometimes, It will try and boot from a USB drive or CD drive, It can be fixed from the BIOS though.

If this doesn't work, then I don't know what to tell you, I doubt it will be a CPU problem though, Is your operating system stored on your primary Hard Drive? Could be a HDD problem.
 
What is the spec of your friends pc, I would be surprised the cpu is faulty as if it's a new modern day chip then they have thermal protection which throttles the cpu in the event of high temps.

Only thing I am wondering is the windows install has become corrupt, try loading the windows disc and doing a repair install, also run mem test to check the memory for any errors.
 
I did consider windows corruption, but he had lost his windows disk, so I couldn't test it then.

It's a core 2 CPU - I thought it throttled down to protect itself, it's good to hear that's probably the case.
 
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