Stress borked pc

simbady · 2 Feb 2009 at 20:34

Hi my friend just run a stress testing stressing CPU and MEM it crashed and wont boot to windows? Whats do you think has broken? It just restarts at bios.

ChrisLX200 · 2 Feb 2009 at 20:46

Will it go into safe mode?
Any error beeps on POST?

TheRedZealot · 2 Feb 2009 at 20:47

Tried a Cmos reset?

simbady · 2 Feb 2009 at 20:54

Ah he has fixed it sort of he reset CMOS so he can boot but he destored his O/S. thanks for quick replies
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ChrisLX200 · 2 Feb 2009 at 20:57

simbady said:
Ah he has fixed it sort of he reset CMOS so he can boot but he destored his O/S. thanks for quick replies
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'Destroyed'? Anyway, unlikely a CMOS reset would do that. Needs to take his time and go through it logically.

simbady · 2 Feb 2009 at 20:59

i dont think the CMOS reset broke it he think the stress did

simbady · 2 Feb 2009 at 21:00

he is now telling me he might of stressed hard drive (which s next to dieing anyway) so my guess is that that broke. ... i'm really not sure what he did thb lol

ChrisLX200 · 2 Feb 2009 at 21:25

Moral - don't stress-test old stuff lol

simbady · 3 Feb 2009 at 01:17

Yeah lol he managed to back up some data but thanks for the help.

EsaT · 3 Feb 2009 at 11:00

simbady said:
he is now telling me he might of stressed hard drive (which s next to dieing anyway) so my guess is that that broke.

Corrupted OS causes easily reboot at point where loading of it should start.