The computer that I'm working on won't boot past BIOS. The screen goes blank after BIOS. I can get into BIOS where it appears to be reading everything. I'm leaning towards the hard disk drive but wanted some feedback before really getting into it.
2007-11-19 05:53:12 · 9 answers · asked by shane l 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Yes I can see the Hard Drive in BIOS and it appears to be reading it correctly. When I get out of work I'm going to put a bootable disk in and make sure that the boot order is correct. It should be because I worked on the computer the last time it got a virus. I'll let everyone know how it goes.
2007-11-19 06:20:48 · update #1
Can you boot to a bootable CD(i.e. Windows) and does it recognize the partitions? If so, don't reformat or install yet. It may not actually be the hard drive itself but possibly the OS installation, hope you make backups of important info. ;-) If you don't have backups made you might try putting this harddrive into another computer as a second or 'slave' drive(OS must be compatible) and see if it is recognized and you can get at files and such. This could not only be a good way to get at important info but can also give you clues as to whether it is the drive itself or an OS problem. If the drive isn't recognized as a slave in a compatible environment then it could easily be the drive has a problem. Strange thing about computers is that so many things can cause the same symptoms. I once had a computer that acted exactly as you describe, I could boot to the setup screen but it just went black after that. I had two sticks of ram and took one out and it worked fine, after a little experimenting I had to mark the sticks as they are both working fine in other systems but just don't play well together anymore, lol. And yes, you read that correctly, I still use both sticks of ram in seperate systems but they cause Windows boot problems when used together.
2007-11-19 06:06:39 · answer #1 · answered by cosmcruncher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are the had disks recognized, if you look in bios, and the boot devices correctly set up? Is there an OS on disk? Put in the windows cd, and see if it recognizes an installation in the disk.
2007-11-19 05:58:10 · answer #2 · answered by lynx6201 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you check and see what the boot priority was? If the hard drive is first on the boot priority and it wont boot I would try to reformat the operating system. If it still does it after a reformat or it wont reformat, I would say the hard drive is dead.
2007-11-19 05:58:59 · answer #3 · answered by J0nny_N@pa!m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are running windows, you may have a boot sector problem. You can check this buy inserting the original install disk for windows and run the startup repair option.
2007-11-19 05:58:50 · answer #4 · answered by Professor Moriarti 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you get into safe mode? Can you boot to CDROM? You need to know these things. If you can get into safe mode then it may be some driver issue or app trying to load on startup. If you cannot get into safe mode, there may be a boot sector virus or corruption. In that case you need to run a windows repair. CHKDSK /R from recovery console, then FIXBOOT.
2007-11-19 05:59:41 · answer #5 · answered by ZX3R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. That would be a good first guess. Do you have a spare drive to hook up temporarily? That would help prove it.
2007-11-19 05:59:07 · answer #6 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
might be a drive fail. or it might be that you dont have the right boot sequence. you also might be gettin some beeps when u turn your pc on. look at your manual to see wat the beats mean.
2007-11-19 05:58:12 · answer #7 · answered by eaglesucka 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on the hardware you have, for example SCSI... but if u don't have any extraordinary stuff then its probably the HDD
2007-11-19 06:03:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you insert the card with the computer on?......the driver is a piece of software not a card........
2016-05-24 05:11:48 · answer #9 · answered by susanna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋