Unable to start PC or reinstall windows 8.1

f9l3yn

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Built a pc a little while ago, it worked for a few days but now I've been getting a "Preparing for automatic repair" so I tried inserting my windows 8.1 cd but it won't work, all I get is this error
Your PC needs to restart
Please hold down the power button
Error Code 0x0000007F
0x0000000000000008
0xFFFFF803B3F18E70
0xFFFFF803B3F02FD0
0xFFFFF803B02E49B6

The PC specs are
i5-4590 3.3GHz 6MB
ASRock H97M Pro4
Gigabyte R9 270 OC 2GB
Corsair 500watt
Seagate 1TB HDD
Patriot 8GB ram

Please help
 
Solution
-Be aware depending on your setup, it can take a good while for the setup to first occur when you boot off the CD. For me it takes a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time. Just let it sit there for a good half hour and see what happens.

-You mention on your specs that you currently have your GPU OC'd, if you hadn't already done so use defaults than try your win8 install again.

-If that doesn't work your second solution is to test your ram to see if everything is okay, do this with a bootable memtest86 usb or cd and see what results you get.

-If everything checks out fine, you can try and install in a Linux flavor (like ubuntu) onto your system and see if it works. If ubuntu installation fails than at least you'll have a greater idea that it might be a...

f9l3yn

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Unfortunately none of those have worked, booting from my windows cd just gives me the windows logo and nothing happens now, I don't have a recovery drive and pressing f11 to boot into advanced boot just takes me to the UEFI
 

aolish

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-Be aware depending on your setup, it can take a good while for the setup to first occur when you boot off the CD. For me it takes a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time. Just let it sit there for a good half hour and see what happens.

-You mention on your specs that you currently have your GPU OC'd, if you hadn't already done so use defaults than try your win8 install again.

-If that doesn't work your second solution is to test your ram to see if everything is okay, do this with a bootable memtest86 usb or cd and see what results you get.

-If everything checks out fine, you can try and install in a Linux flavor (like ubuntu) onto your system and see if it works. If ubuntu installation fails than at least you'll have a greater idea that it might be a hardware issue.

-Here is a direct link to the error code you posted that might be useful:

Error Code 0x0000007F
http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/137539

Keep us posted. =]
 
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