Best start to a thread ever.
More seriously, have you made sure nothing is creating a short in the system?
Need urgent fix, red cpu_light lit up.
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Best start to a thread ever.
More seriously, have you made sure nothing is creating a short in the system?
I tested it with my old PSU and doesn't work, I'll try graphics card when I bet home although the motherboard ha lights indicating the issue and it the cpu light that is lit up red
I can't see the bios being an issue I'm guessing faulty cpu, I bought a new one amd piledriver fx 8350 so the one up from what I had and I'll see if it works tomorrow when it gets here
So my processor is here it works fine it now turns on but now I have this error, windows error recovery keeps coming up and asks me to do startup repair, yet when I do that it says it can't fix it then just turns of. An help? Alli dod was change processor and motherboard
uhh how would I. Do a fresh install, is that meaning lose everything on my hard drive?
Unfortunately yes you'd lose your data. I don't suppose you have a spare hard-drive? You could install onto one and keep the one with all the data as a secondary drive.
Do you have a physical copy of windows on a disk or usb drive? You could attempt a repair from disk if you have it. Just change your boot options in bios and boot from the disk, it'll load windows and then give an option about repairing. It may give you enough to get in and save files etc, but I would still reccommend a fresh install afterwards.
Well, you would if you formatted it. But then, that's what backups are for. Which you doubtless have, for important files.
If you don't have backups, then try booting up Windows in safe mode and see if it runs up then. If not, then do a reinstall but don't format the hard drive - it should just replace Windows and your old programs then but leave all files/documents/etc on the hard drive intact. Then you can back up your files, do a proper format and reinstall, and re-think your disaster recovery plans!
As advised earlier, if you've changed mother board you will need to a clean install.
If you have your data and OS image on the same drive/partition then yes you will loose your data.
In future either have two HDD's - One for OS, one for Data or at least separate data/OS partitions.
This allows you to reinstall your OS without loosing data.
If you have your data and OS image on the same drive/partition then yes you will loose your data.
In future either have two HDD's - One for OS, one for Data or at least separate data/OS partitions.
This allows you to reinstall your OS without loosing data.
Well, you would if you formatted it. But then, that's what backups are for. Which you doubtless have, for important files.
If you don't have backups, then try booting up Windows in safe mode and see if it runs up then. If not, then do a reinstall but don't format the hard drive - it should just replace Windows and your old programs then but leave all files/documents/etc on the hard drive intact. Then you can back up your files, do a proper format and reinstall, and re-think your disaster recovery plans!
It's nt been my day haha and okay how do I boot in safe mode? Then I'll try giving this a go, I'm going to need to try and find my windows disk, not sure where it is, if I can't find it what's the options then xD
Just on the off chance you've got the same issue as me. PC did a couple of windows updates 3 days ago. Went to use it last night and kept restarting /blue screening when windows logo flashes. I then did a system restore to before the latest updates and worked fine. Last night it did the updates again and stopped working again. So going to work out what update it is and see if there is a fix.
Hope that might help.
Hope that might help.