Help, I've broken something!

NotAGolf

NotAGolf

NotAGolf

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I just took my graphics card to give it a quick clean as it was getting a bit hot. Put everything back together and booted back up but just got a blank screen (no error beeps, all the fans spin up like normal). Turned it off, checked all the wires and one of the power cables to one of the hard drives had fallen out. So i pushed it back in, booted back up again but still nothing.

It goes to the BIOS splash screen, then instead of bringing up the dual boot screen to let me choose which OS to load (xp or vista), there's just a little cursor flashing in the top left of the screen and it doesn't go any further.

What have I done?

I've gone into the BIOS and all looks normal, temps are fine, detects both hard-drives and everything. Checked the boot priority, thats ok. I've double checked all the connections and it all looks fine and dandy.

Any ideas? I could really do with some help as I've got an exam in a few days which I need my computer to revise for.

Thanks very much.
 
Bit of an update.

I stuck the XP cd in and ran the repair console and tried chkdsk /r. Completed that and tried to boot up again. This time it booted as normal got into windows, all my data is still there.:D

But then after about 5 minutes it freezes so I have to restart, and guess what....I get the blank screen again:mad:

I'm running chkdsk on it again now.

I'm guessing its one of 2 things:
1. The hard drive is on its last legs, or
2. My overclock is giving it some jip. I have been overclocking over the last few days but the temps are fine and it ran for 8 hours stable under Orthos so I'm not too sure what's going on.

Any ideas what could be the matter?
Thanks.
 
Well I took it back down to 2.8Ghz which it has been stable at for a year and no problems after 45 mins in Orthos.

I guess I just suck at overclocking...:(
 
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