Friends PC won't boot

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Hi All

My Friends PC was on when it had a fall from standing position to flat on its side, the computer stayed on and seemed to work fine. We later tried to play a game and he kept disconnecting for some reason so decided to call it a night and turn it off.

The next day when he went to turn it on it wouldn't boot past the windows logo and would end on a black screen which would restart and loop after 5 or so minutes.

I have tried to boot to safe mode but when the drivers are loading it freezes and goes no further.

I have reset the ram, gpu (tried to put some back plates he ordered on them) but to no avail.

I am planning to reset the cmos battery sometime since this solved a issue with the GPU when he first got an upgrade.

Any ideas?

Thanks
 
Beerbaron said:
I would scan the hard disk to make sure he hasn't damaged it when it fell.
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That's pretty much what I think has happened, Is there any utilities you'd recommend that I can use from boot CD/DVD

Or do you mean physically check the HDD?
 
I would personally try a utility like HD sentinel as it will test the drive with smart and will give you a "accurate" health status of the drive aswell as checking for bad areas/damage

However as far as I'm aware this can only been done from within the operating system so you could only do it if another pc was spare.
 
harry5522 said:
I would personally try a utility like HD sentinel as it will test the drive with smart and will give you a "accurate" health status of the drive aswell as checking for bad areas/damage

However as far as I'm aware this can only been done from within the operating system so you could only do it if another pc was spare.
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Thanks for this, I live in the same flat so we could use my PC to test the HDD.
 
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