Computer starts up but wont boot windows

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Ragutou

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My computer was starting to act up yesterday, it was freezing, restarting on its own with no errors or blue screens until after it seemingly got worse I started getting blue screens, it seemed to actually freeze and restart more often whenever I did something intensive like transferring big files.

What I've done so far is tried individual parts from my computer in my friends computer, we figured we could deduce the problem by trying each piece within a working computer so we tried the hard drive first and reformatted the hard drive as well to windows 7 the hard drive is old but seems to have been fine going on it with the new windows 7.

After this we tried the graphics card inside my friends computer and it seemed to be fine as well, the graphics card was not giving any issues or problems.

We also tried putting the ram sticks from the non-bootable computer into my friends and the RAM worked in there too, then we went onto the power supply, hooked it up properly and it ran in the computer just fine.

Me and my friend suspect a motherboard issue, we get a beep when the computer is trying to boot windows on the loading windows 7 startup screen and that's where it restarts and keeps trying to do that over again or to try and repair it.

Ask any questions you need for more information and I'll try my best to provide because we want to get down to the root of the issue to know or not if we need a new mobo.
 


Well, yes the drive worked on my friends computer, we took it and the windows 7 on the usb and installed it onto the drive, loaded windows up on it and everything went well which makes me skeptical about it being the hard drive, although the hard drive is making some odd clicking noises.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by CMOS defaults, did I go into the bios and load optimized defaults? yes I did and I set the date and time, and I even set it to boot the hard drive on startup.

the windows 7 was obtained from a friend many years back and was used to format this hard drive many times before.
 
A little update on what's going on, I started another install of windows 7 on the hard drive and it didn't freeze this time with the new CMOS battery and it appears to be working now just waiting to get to the desktop, maybe it was just the battery afterall.
 

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