Odd Boot Problems

harenzo

harenzo

harenzo

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Installed a new CPU cooler recently, all was working fine for about a day.

Now when I power up the PC it gets stuck on the Asus mobo welcome screen or fails to show anything at all after that. Windows 7 does not load.

The fans are all running. I can access the BIOS when I reinsert the CMOS battery but once I've made any changes and restart it doesn't boot up properly, again freezing after the welcome screen. I've tried setting boot priority to DVD first to attempt a startup repair using my win7 dvd but it doesn't get to that stage.

All settings are at default, no overclock.

I have not changed any other hardware apart from the cooler so I am at a loss what to try.
 
Yep I had to remove the mobo to install the backplate. All screws put back in afterwards.

I can't get to safe mode at all.

My win7 installation DVD gets to "press any key to boot from DVD" then just stops after the white loading bar finishes.

Using 1 RAM stick didn't resolve the issue.

It's really strange as I didn't change any component besides the fan - why does it affect windows? :confused::confused:
 
Reset BIOS to default settings, managed to repair windows 7 install and booted to desktop. However, on the next restart, it gets stuck on the BIOS welcome screen again.

Double checked the connectors all seems ok....
 
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