PC won't boot

[Iain Hogg]

I've just been asked to help out someone here at work who has upgraded his PC, problem is it now won't boot

He has replaced motherboard, PSU and memory and reconnected the hard drive etc. and it won't boot into Winblows.

I'm not sure what message, if any, is present (but will find out tomorrow when he brings it in).

He has tried the hard drive from another PC and it boots up OK, he has also put the original hard drive in the other PC and that boots up too.

My suspicions are that it may be a driver incompatibility and the PC is trying to boot into safe mode.

Any suggestions what to try first?

Thanks, Iain

 

[ianf]

If the driver that you suspect faults it won't drop back to safe mode automatically. You'll need to do that by hand.

If it's blue screening, get the fault data on here and I'll have a look.

 

[Cestria]

If the driver that you suspect faults it won't drop back to safe mode automatically. You'll need to do that by hand.

If it's blue screening, get the fault data on here and I'll have a look.

You will be saying that all that bumph on a BSOD actually means something next....

 

[Iain Hogg]

You will be saying that all that bumph on a BSOD actually means something next....

Of course it means something ...... It means that you are fecked

 

[Iain Hogg]

Thanks guys, got my hands on the machine this morning - complete with legit XP disc

It would boot up to the screen offering various flavours of Safe mode or last known good boot, only to return there whtever you selected!

Anyway, booted from the CD and did a repair, success

However, the machine appears to be riddled with trojans etc. so gave up on downloading the 51 crical security updates offered by MS and am returning it to it's owner to sort out from there

Iain