Windows startup trouble: help

[coalminer071]

Hi all, After starting up my computer, after posting the mobo and ahci screen and before the windows gui screen i would have a crash and this crash invovles something like this

any help would be great, thanks

 

[coalminer071]

any help?

 

[mcnumpty23]

whats the specs of your pc?

 

[coalminer071]

im just wondering if theres a quick fix before i plan on getting haswell.
amd 940 phenom 2 x4
mobo GA-MA770-UD3
ocz ddr2 ram
evga 580
ocz 800w

 

[mcnumpty23]

will it boot into safe mode ok?

 

[coalminer071]

spamming F8 while booting? it doesnt load. just flashing underscore like cmd screen

 

[coalminer071]

well i turned off my windows gui so i dont think i can get into safe mode haha

 

[mcnumpty23]

flashing underscore like cmd screen normally means it cant find a bootable device

though doesnt usually show like your photo

is your hard drive showing in the bios?

can you even see the bios?

 

[coalminer071]

yea i can get into bios

 

[coalminer071]

when i go into hard disk boot priority. it shows my ssd as priority so i dont think it means my comp cant find bootable drive

 

[mcnumpty23]

at least you know its not the monitor if the bios shows ok


may be worth booting off a live cd like ubuntu to see if its a graphics card fault

 

[coalminer071]

the live cd works.

 

[coalminer071]

however it crashed, but still can move mouse. haha

 

[mcnumpty23]

crashed how?

did you get to a desktop?

 

[coalminer071]

yep. i got to desktop and i c install but nothing is displayed besides that. i see startup toolbar. thats about it.
cant click on anything.

 

[mcnumpty23]

well that was a little helpfull at least you saw a desktop

could still be graphics card problem though

would try testing your memory as well with memtest

 

[coalminer071]

could the sata controller died maybe?

 

[coalminer071]

doing memtest now. how many runs should i go?

 

[mcnumpty23]

could the sata controller died maybe?

dont think so--though anything is possible

memtest probably 3 passes or so

usually errors show really quickly

though some people leave it running overnight

my thoughts would be either memory--graphics card or psu

if it was a software fault then ubuntu should have ran ok

 

[coalminer071]

memtest pass at 46% no errors so far

 

[mcnumpty23]

its not a new build?

it worked before?

 

[coalminer071]

yea not new build. started acting like this since yesterday but been having problems since a month or 2 before.
problem - during random times comp would restart with beeps, checked beep faq and it said gfx or mem is loose. seems to be problem. however it would restart after i give both of them a lil nudge. now it just wont start

 

[coalminer071]

was hoping if i can somehow keep it till haswell comes out. seems like i might have to invest into it now.

 

[mcnumpty23]

haswell is still months away i think

check any 6 pin / 8 pin connectors are properly clicked home on the graphics card

 

[coalminer071]

its properly clicked in