All,
Has this ever happened to you, and if so how was it resolved?
The other day my desktop computer, home built, emitted a sound that could best be described as a gunshot; sharp and loud enough to startle me. The computer immediately died.
The motherboard is the ASUS P9X79 Deluxe with a 2011 socket, the CPU is an Intel I7-3820 quad core socket LGA2011 running at 3.6 GHz, the memory is 32 GB made up of 8 Kingston HyperX DDR3 chips.
The computer was running under Windows 7 and the ‘C’ drive was a 500 GB SSD. In addition there are four other normal hard drives connected to the computer via the trays built into the case.
I also had spare hard drives, both 500 GB, one with Windows 7 and one with Windows 10 which I had created approximately 12 months earlier. I removed the SSD and installed the spare Windows 7 drive. My plan being to create a new Windows 7 drive and add all the program files from the SSD.
Somehow I screwed up in trying to copy just the program files from the SSD and ended up with nothing. My computer data was now basically one year old, so I exchanged the spare Windows 7 drive with the spare Windows 10 to see which one was the latest.
To cut a long story short, I was transferring from one OS to the other to try to get the latest situation onto the Windows 7 drive. After many exchanges of drives Windows 7 would no longer boot up; Windows 10 continued to boot up for a while but then that too stopped booting. For a little while longer I was able to boot into the computer from a Linux disk, but now I cannot boot anything. After going through a EUFI BIOS POST the whole thing freezes up.
The Q-Code table LED showed 00, which the manual says is unused.
Can anyone tell me what is wrong and how to fix it?
Has this ever happened to you, and if so how was it resolved?
The other day my desktop computer, home built, emitted a sound that could best be described as a gunshot; sharp and loud enough to startle me. The computer immediately died.
The motherboard is the ASUS P9X79 Deluxe with a 2011 socket, the CPU is an Intel I7-3820 quad core socket LGA2011 running at 3.6 GHz, the memory is 32 GB made up of 8 Kingston HyperX DDR3 chips.
The computer was running under Windows 7 and the ‘C’ drive was a 500 GB SSD. In addition there are four other normal hard drives connected to the computer via the trays built into the case.
I also had spare hard drives, both 500 GB, one with Windows 7 and one with Windows 10 which I had created approximately 12 months earlier. I removed the SSD and installed the spare Windows 7 drive. My plan being to create a new Windows 7 drive and add all the program files from the SSD.
Somehow I screwed up in trying to copy just the program files from the SSD and ended up with nothing. My computer data was now basically one year old, so I exchanged the spare Windows 7 drive with the spare Windows 10 to see which one was the latest.
To cut a long story short, I was transferring from one OS to the other to try to get the latest situation onto the Windows 7 drive. After many exchanges of drives Windows 7 would no longer boot up; Windows 10 continued to boot up for a while but then that too stopped booting. For a little while longer I was able to boot into the computer from a Linux disk, but now I cannot boot anything. After going through a EUFI BIOS POST the whole thing freezes up.
The Q-Code table LED showed 00, which the manual says is unused.
Can anyone tell me what is wrong and how to fix it?
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