Hi all,
I'm new to this group, and of course I have a major PC issue!
It all started when my trusty Advent Model DT2410 desktop PC tower decided to die....well, not completely! On switching the PC on one morning a few weeks back, it didn't boot up properly. The on/off light was showing, but there was no sign of life on the monitor. I switched off, opened up the case, and suspected the graphics card. This PC World own brand desktop has permanently disabled onboard graphics and utillises an AMD HD6670 2GB gaphics card. So I took out the graphics adaptor, carefully hoovered all around the inside, and the graphics card too. When I popped it all back and switched on, there was no life whatsoever, dead as a dodo. I removed the PSU and tested it and in my opinion it had had it. I managed to find a pretty much identical PSU on Ebay, and installed it carefully. On switch on, things appeared to spring into life but was then presented with something that I'd never witnessed before in all my years of computing, and that was the 'Shell screen'. Have now done all the things needed to get out of this scenario, but to no avail. I've managed to get to the BIOS setup, and followed the necessary changes, but it still returns to the Shell screen on Boot up, and no Windows (Windows 7 in my case) boot up. So I then suspected the HDD, which is a WD 2TB, even though the BIOS recognised it. I tried it in another PC and it appeared to be working properly. I also tried another HDD (80GB Seagate), which I know is working properly and that also gave me the shell screen with no Boot to Windows. I'm not great at explaining things so I hope the above has made sense.
I am now at a loss!
Help please
I'm new to this group, and of course I have a major PC issue!
It all started when my trusty Advent Model DT2410 desktop PC tower decided to die....well, not completely! On switching the PC on one morning a few weeks back, it didn't boot up properly. The on/off light was showing, but there was no sign of life on the monitor. I switched off, opened up the case, and suspected the graphics card. This PC World own brand desktop has permanently disabled onboard graphics and utillises an AMD HD6670 2GB gaphics card. So I took out the graphics adaptor, carefully hoovered all around the inside, and the graphics card too. When I popped it all back and switched on, there was no life whatsoever, dead as a dodo. I removed the PSU and tested it and in my opinion it had had it. I managed to find a pretty much identical PSU on Ebay, and installed it carefully. On switch on, things appeared to spring into life but was then presented with something that I'd never witnessed before in all my years of computing, and that was the 'Shell screen'. Have now done all the things needed to get out of this scenario, but to no avail. I've managed to get to the BIOS setup, and followed the necessary changes, but it still returns to the Shell screen on Boot up, and no Windows (Windows 7 in my case) boot up. So I then suspected the HDD, which is a WD 2TB, even though the BIOS recognised it. I tried it in another PC and it appeared to be working properly. I also tried another HDD (80GB Seagate), which I know is working properly and that also gave me the shell screen with no Boot to Windows. I'm not great at explaining things so I hope the above has made sense.
I am now at a loss!
Help please
