fail to boot

Forum discussion tagged with fail to boot.
  1. SaloFulleda

    Question My pc will not boot when SATA is in use

    Hello! My computer crashed earlier today, it froze and shut itself off, after which it immediately started a loop of rebooting with no end. My first thought was to disconnect everything, including my two SATA HDD's, and leaving only my gpu, ram, m.2 ssd and cpu. The pc booted fine, but as soon...
  2. M

    [SOLVED] How do I fix Stopcode: "Machine Check Exception" ?

    Hi, Recently I built my first pc, I installed the windows 10 OS via USB, set up goes smoothly. I install a driver for my WiFi card via a different USB stick to get it to work, and once I have a Internet connection asus Q-Installer says it will automatically find and install new drivers for all...
  3. Al1978

    [SOLVED] Windows home menu and searchbar not working. Bluescreen after restart.

    Background: Windows 10 up to date. OS was not upgraded from older Windows, but installed directly on clean HDD. PC is about 4 years old (built from parts, not bought as a whole) and had no major problem prior to this one. 2 day ago I boot up my PC and i notice that my Windows home menu is not...
  4. hugoh

    Question Computer fails to boot + VGA red light

    Hey so recently, being dumb, I was messing around with some settings in the bios to attempt to overclock. I don’t remember exactly what I did but when I selected to continue to desktop it just crashed. My computer now fails to boot but turns on. I have tried resetting the CMOS, taking out the...
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    [SOLVED] Black Screening Under Load, Multiple Restarts Needed to Boot

    Hello, Over the last month I have begun to experience increasingly worse problems on my PC. I have tried to figure out how to fix this but to no avail. Hopefully somebody on here who knows more than I do will be able to help. The problem being faced is that the computer will often times restart...
  6. S

    [SOLVED] Mothers PC occasionally fails to find HDD to boot, Unplugging and re-plugging drive fixes.

    Hey Everyone not sure if this is the correct part of the forum to post. I'll give some background info the problem is as stated in the title. Years ago I built a my first PC in a refurbished HP case and upgraded my moms computer using my old parts, its a bit of a hodge podge job but it works...
  7. B

    Question PC Won't boot from time to time, unsure if RAM problems, and whether or not i can keep my current PSU for a new build

    Hello, so i've been having problems with my current PC for the good part of 2 years now (surprised it's still kinda working) What happens is it fails to boot, from time to time (nowadays daily, sometimes several times a day after freezes), the PC powers on without any issues, but i get no video...
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    MoBo for e5640?

    I just bought a cheap Xeon e5640, but i don't have a board for it. I have some DDR3 Kingston HyperX (2x4 GB 1600MHz) to reuse with it, and i don't know which board to buy. Any recommendations? I wanted to buy a Gigabyte X58 UD3R but giving 150$ for a mobo is just not worth for me, so a cheaper...
  9. O

    G3258 using way too much power, cant get past 4.4ghz

    Hello all, I have a G3258 (like a lot of people sorry if your getting sick of these questions) I cant seem to get past 4.4ghz even at 1.4v . Im using the MSI Z97 PC mate and ive seen people hit stuff like 4.7 at 1.4v. I got to the windows loading screen on 4.5 but then it froze and I reset my PC...