- Feb 19, 2015
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Greetings community! After years of using a dated rig I finally got around to upgrading. This is my second DIY build, this being the first one that was largely unassisted. Here is the upgrade kit I bought, and this is the old hdd that is going in as well.
Ok, so bare with me; assembly goes off without a hitch, all parts are secure and plugged in, wore an ESD wrist band the entire time, and hard drives were sitting on an anti-static bag away from the work bench. Upon first powering the machine, it prompts me with "you installed new hardware" and offers an array of options to perform a setup. I choose the option that pertains most to my situation which was just to start the setup process. BIOS menu comes up no problem, make sure the drives will boot in the right order, fans are running etc. Save & exit, Windows logo starts loading, it freezes, screen goes black, mobo beeps once, BSOD flashes on screen for a fraction of a second, some of the only bits I caught of the error description mentioned a hard drive and corruption, then a screen appears saying Windows failed to start and offers to run Startup Repair or start normally; the first time I run the repair app it offers to revert to a restore point, which I accept. Computer restarts, same problem, repair tells me it cannot fix the problem automatically. Double checked SATA connections, changed the boot order, even unplugged all other drives but the one with all of my stuff on, didn't fix it.
So here I am with a machine that doesn't work. Are there any tests I need to do to find the cause? Or am I to assume the worst that my drive has committed suicide? I really appreciate any help, thank you.
Ok, so bare with me; assembly goes off without a hitch, all parts are secure and plugged in, wore an ESD wrist band the entire time, and hard drives were sitting on an anti-static bag away from the work bench. Upon first powering the machine, it prompts me with "you installed new hardware" and offers an array of options to perform a setup. I choose the option that pertains most to my situation which was just to start the setup process. BIOS menu comes up no problem, make sure the drives will boot in the right order, fans are running etc. Save & exit, Windows logo starts loading, it freezes, screen goes black, mobo beeps once, BSOD flashes on screen for a fraction of a second, some of the only bits I caught of the error description mentioned a hard drive and corruption, then a screen appears saying Windows failed to start and offers to run Startup Repair or start normally; the first time I run the repair app it offers to revert to a restore point, which I accept. Computer restarts, same problem, repair tells me it cannot fix the problem automatically. Double checked SATA connections, changed the boot order, even unplugged all other drives but the one with all of my stuff on, didn't fix it.
So here I am with a machine that doesn't work. Are there any tests I need to do to find the cause? Or am I to assume the worst that my drive has committed suicide? I really appreciate any help, thank you.
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