help

adaswani · 2 Jul 2011 at 16:57

Just moved and after transporting my PC(self-built) i plugged it in and it wont turn on, i opened it up and the light on the on bord power button is flashing red every couple of seconds, however when it is working the red light is solid.

Please help as i'm realy worried.

Orcvader · 2 Jul 2011 at 17:02

Full system specs? How did you transport your PC? I would perhaps try take everything apart and rebuild it, and see if that works.

SparkyG · 2 Jul 2011 at 17:15

Gonna need a bit more info please

Jordan97 · 2 Jul 2011 at 17:16

It is possible that something got damaged during the move.

It is hard to tell exactly what is wrong with it because we do not know the make and model of your board. Every motherboard manufacturer has a different set of warning lights and beeps to another. Speaking of beeps, do you get any?

adaswani · 2 Jul 2011 at 19:34

i took it apart and rebuilt and it booted fine however now it says "reboot and select proper Boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key"

adaswani · 2 Jul 2011 at 19:36

Before you ask i have a Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58 mobo and a crucial 64gb c300 ssd into the the SATA 6GBs port on the motherboard

Blue160 · 2 Jul 2011 at 19:52

You've probably connected your drives to different SATA ports than previously. Have a look in the bios and you'll find somewhere to select the boot priority. Set this to your boot drive and all should be fine.

adaswani · 2 Jul 2011 at 19:58

I've selected the ssd as first boot and unpluged the other HDDs

Blue160 · 2 Jul 2011 at 20:06

So Windows recognises the drive but won't boot from it? A fresh install of Windows may help although I don't see how moving the PC would have corrupted it. Have you tried different SATA and power cables, and a different SATA port?

adaswani · 2 Jul 2011 at 20:09

I've tried that, do u think a fresh install of windows would work?

Blue160 · 2 Jul 2011 at 20:13

Can't hurt to try. If it doesn't you must have damaged something in the move.

adaswani · 3 Jul 2011 at 12:51

I have put the windows ssd in a caddy is there anything i can do to the files on it to try and make it work?

Captain Chaos · 3 Jul 2011 at 13:05

have you tried using windows recovery?