Recent content by Mark Berden

Motherboard failure, somewhere around the memory.

Ram seems ok. Tried different slots, and one by one and same problem apears. I suspect its the PSU causing the freeze on startup and windows install, but when it doesnt freeze it goes directly to my next problem and thats the beloved black screen. Cannot fix black screen again coz of my first...

I will try to take everything apart and put it back together in a different case, maybe it does some magic. If everything else fails it must be the motherboard because I have tested it with a spare psu, same freeze/black screen.

Is there any way I can get there without booting win? Or is there any way to boot safe mode without that troubleshoot menu? That also crashes

So i have no idea what to do next. Computer freezes no mather what I try. Usualy its hard freeze after windows boot, repair also freezes, even windows install from usb. Rarely it gets though the boot and then it has blackscreen of death. I cannot restore, cannot repair, cannot reinstall windows...

Thank you for that :) had the exact same problem. Now install works like a charm

Ok, the install didnt work coz i had ide drive set in bios. Login freeze i didint resolve, il just install it fresh

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2157777/hard-freeze-windows-bsod.html Found a post with the exact same problem, going to try it when i get home

Oh I forgot, tested the hard drive. Found no errors. Psu is xfx 650w. The whole system is at max 10 months old, the psu is around 5-6

Hello Here is my problem and I am no computer newbie, cant resolve this one tho. After bootup Windows works for about 5 seconds and freezes. Safe mode works perfectly. Now here is the tricky part, i tried to reinstall windows and it crashes also, usually at the start of the install. Tried...