bit of background info.. worked in IT 35 years 1/2 in networking- retired 2008
built numerous pc's
but on this i'm fecked.. its a 1150 gigabyte mobo x97x gaming gt Iv'e tried everything i can think of
PC help.
OK.. my sons pc went off when there was a power cut in his University flat/house.
When power restored..everything came back on but his PC.
Totally dead...replaced and tested fuses... changed the power supply with a spare and still same.. replaced power supply back to original.. reset cmos/bios and the power worked again.(seems bios got screwed. Anyway rebooting.. the pc hung after selecting windows to load the system . so restarted in safe mode with networking.support... this works fine and can test for overheating etc etc. .. when tried to boot up again as normal..same result.. always just after or during the login to windows screen.
Tried to do a system repair thinking windows mite be corrupt..but that stuck as well on repair.
anyways.. since it seemed initially to be a bios corruption problem.
I have..
flashed the bios to the very latest via q-flash and usb..
only had one drive plugged in.
used windows memory tester. 100 % ok
also just put one bank of memory in a time.
run chkdsk ok
rechecked all cables.
run the intel proc test ok.
reinstall all drivers where ever poss. and finally
reinstalled windows on a spare ssd.
all the the above tests still fail when tried...but not in safe mode.
(ps i did have it running as a 'fixed pc' for about 45 mins..and just when i thought it was safe to go back into the water...bammm
any sensible help would be nice as it contain his uni work..(i can salvage it in safe mode..but it would be nice if any suggestions as to what could cause it. I'm beginning to think it might be a random motherboard fault. but i cant understand why it doesn't fail in safemode/safemode with networking.. iv'e been at it now for over a day
built numerous pc's
but on this i'm fecked.. its a 1150 gigabyte mobo x97x gaming gt Iv'e tried everything i can think of
PC help.
OK.. my sons pc went off when there was a power cut in his University flat/house.
When power restored..everything came back on but his PC.
Totally dead...replaced and tested fuses... changed the power supply with a spare and still same.. replaced power supply back to original.. reset cmos/bios and the power worked again.(seems bios got screwed. Anyway rebooting.. the pc hung after selecting windows to load the system . so restarted in safe mode with networking.support... this works fine and can test for overheating etc etc. .. when tried to boot up again as normal..same result.. always just after or during the login to windows screen.
Tried to do a system repair thinking windows mite be corrupt..but that stuck as well on repair.
anyways.. since it seemed initially to be a bios corruption problem.
I have..
flashed the bios to the very latest via q-flash and usb..
only had one drive plugged in.
used windows memory tester. 100 % ok
also just put one bank of memory in a time.
run chkdsk ok
rechecked all cables.
run the intel proc test ok.
reinstall all drivers where ever poss. and finally
reinstalled windows on a spare ssd.
all the the above tests still fail when tried...but not in safe mode.
(ps i did have it running as a 'fixed pc' for about 45 mins..and just when i thought it was safe to go back into the water...bammm
any sensible help would be nice as it contain his uni work..(i can salvage it in safe mode..but it would be nice if any suggestions as to what could cause it. I'm beginning to think it might be a random motherboard fault. but i cant understand why it doesn't fail in safemode/safemode with networking.. iv'e been at it now for over a day