Hello, I've been having a bit of an odd issue lately, that I believe has resulted in one defective HDD.
However, let me first state when I first had this hanging at BIOS issue: It first started happening after I just reapplied some new thermal paste to my CPU because I was getting bad temps. Once I got everything back in order, I noticed my computer would start up just fine, fans and lights start up -- everything perfectly fine; however, my computer was just hanging on the BIOS splash screen. So, after restarting and restarting to see if the issue would go away, I found that if I hit DEL on my keyboard and went into the BIOS, then exited out of the BIOS, (discarding changes and exiting) the computer would boot up perfectly into the OS (Windows 7 Ultimate x64) as if nothing was wrong. Also, the BIOS post beep is just the normal one beep sounding that everything is fine.
However, after this issue started rising up, I noticed that a lot of my programs or games, etc., would crash unexpectedly. Reading crash reports, that I can't provide, however, said something about kernels, or missing files. So I was thinking that maybe the HDD that I was using was defective. ( kind of a new drive, however has been sitting around for about a year without any use) I also thought that maybe my Windows 7 install might have been corrupted somehow from several BSoDs, which I can also explain.
The BSoDs were along the lines of MEMORY_MANGEMENT errors, which I've kind of read up on. Never got around to using memtest86 on my RAM, though, but I believe the issue to be related to the HDD instead. Anyway, my computer hangs at the BIOS splash screen still, but now it also blue screens after the Windows 7 logo, never staying up long enough for me to check for what the issue might be exactly, however at the bottom it states something about fltrmng.exe, I think. The computer also hangs AFTER a BSoD, as in, it doesn't fully restart afterwards, and so I have to shutdown by holding the power button.
All in all, I believe it to be a bad HDD, but I'm hoping for more insight on what the issue may be. I think that when I applied the new thermal paste, it somehow triggered a set of unfortunate events for me.
In summary: computer hangs on BIOS splash screen after applying thermal grease, which may have somehow caused a defective HDD?
My specs are:
Asus MAXIMUS V GENE
16GBs 1600 G.Skill RAM
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
i5 2500K Intel CPU
HDD in question is Western Digital 500GB 5400RPM
*Also, there was one thing about when I was applying the thermal grease, the stock heat-sink for the Intel CPUs, is really iffy, and the flat-head screwdriver I was using, slipped off the heat-sink and scraped against the mobo. However, there are no marks on the mobo, and I don't think it ran across any of the circuitry on the board. Just something I feel I might want to note.*
However, let me first state when I first had this hanging at BIOS issue: It first started happening after I just reapplied some new thermal paste to my CPU because I was getting bad temps. Once I got everything back in order, I noticed my computer would start up just fine, fans and lights start up -- everything perfectly fine; however, my computer was just hanging on the BIOS splash screen. So, after restarting and restarting to see if the issue would go away, I found that if I hit DEL on my keyboard and went into the BIOS, then exited out of the BIOS, (discarding changes and exiting) the computer would boot up perfectly into the OS (Windows 7 Ultimate x64) as if nothing was wrong. Also, the BIOS post beep is just the normal one beep sounding that everything is fine.
However, after this issue started rising up, I noticed that a lot of my programs or games, etc., would crash unexpectedly. Reading crash reports, that I can't provide, however, said something about kernels, or missing files. So I was thinking that maybe the HDD that I was using was defective. ( kind of a new drive, however has been sitting around for about a year without any use) I also thought that maybe my Windows 7 install might have been corrupted somehow from several BSoDs, which I can also explain.
The BSoDs were along the lines of MEMORY_MANGEMENT errors, which I've kind of read up on. Never got around to using memtest86 on my RAM, though, but I believe the issue to be related to the HDD instead. Anyway, my computer hangs at the BIOS splash screen still, but now it also blue screens after the Windows 7 logo, never staying up long enough for me to check for what the issue might be exactly, however at the bottom it states something about fltrmng.exe, I think. The computer also hangs AFTER a BSoD, as in, it doesn't fully restart afterwards, and so I have to shutdown by holding the power button.
All in all, I believe it to be a bad HDD, but I'm hoping for more insight on what the issue may be. I think that when I applied the new thermal paste, it somehow triggered a set of unfortunate events for me.
In summary: computer hangs on BIOS splash screen after applying thermal grease, which may have somehow caused a defective HDD?
My specs are:
Asus MAXIMUS V GENE
16GBs 1600 G.Skill RAM
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
i5 2500K Intel CPU
HDD in question is Western Digital 500GB 5400RPM
*Also, there was one thing about when I was applying the thermal grease, the stock heat-sink for the Intel CPUs, is really iffy, and the flat-head screwdriver I was using, slipped off the heat-sink and scraped against the mobo. However, there are no marks on the mobo, and I don't think it ran across any of the circuitry on the board. Just something I feel I might want to note.*
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