I built a desktop computer in July of 2010 and installed Windows 7 Ultimate x32. Things were working fine until about two weeks ago when it started having issues so I performed a cold boot. When it booted back up it told me that hardware couldn't be found. I shut it down again and then when it rebooted after it showed the start up screen that tells what the motherboard is, the screen went black. All google searches said graphics card issue. It at first would not give me the option to startup repair. When it finally did and I selected it, it goes through the windows is loading files and sits on Starting Windows. If I choose Start Windows Normally it does the same thing. I have the Windows installation disc but in order to boot from the disc I had to get a PS/2 keyboard as it does not recgonize USB keyboards, wireless or wired. Only once has it given me the Windows options to start up repair, re-install windows, etc.
A few days ago it randomly booted up to Windows and let me save all the files on it so at this point I don't care if I wipe the harddrive or not. One of my friends' uncle works on computers and he thinks there are start up files missing. He reccomended that I re-install windows and see if that works. However, I can not get my computer to pull back up the Windows options in order to re-install windows. Pressing F8 only gives me two options - boot from CD/DVD drive or boot from SATA harddrive. Any advice on how to proceed would be appreciated. I realize there are other threads similar to this but none of them seemed to answer my issue. I would prefer to get this fixed soon as my current laptop is not a reliable computer.
Hardware
Motherboard
Asus M4A785M AMD 785G Socket AM2+
CPU
AMD Athlon II x2 215 2.7GHz AM3 OEM
Harddrive
WD Caviar 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/32MB/SATA-3G
RAM
Corsair XMS 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800 MHz (2 sticks)
Graphics Card
EVGA GeForce 9500 GT 1GB PCIe w/ Dual Link DVI
Case
Cooler Master CM690 Nvidia ED. ATX Case SLI ready
A few days ago it randomly booted up to Windows and let me save all the files on it so at this point I don't care if I wipe the harddrive or not. One of my friends' uncle works on computers and he thinks there are start up files missing. He reccomended that I re-install windows and see if that works. However, I can not get my computer to pull back up the Windows options in order to re-install windows. Pressing F8 only gives me two options - boot from CD/DVD drive or boot from SATA harddrive. Any advice on how to proceed would be appreciated. I realize there are other threads similar to this but none of them seemed to answer my issue. I would prefer to get this fixed soon as my current laptop is not a reliable computer.
Hardware
Motherboard
Asus M4A785M AMD 785G Socket AM2+
CPU
AMD Athlon II x2 215 2.7GHz AM3 OEM
Harddrive
WD Caviar 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/32MB/SATA-3G
RAM
Corsair XMS 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800 MHz (2 sticks)
Graphics Card
EVGA GeForce 9500 GT 1GB PCIe w/ Dual Link DVI
Case
Cooler Master CM690 Nvidia ED. ATX Case SLI ready
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 Ultimate 36 bitAMD Athlon II x2 215 2.7GHz AM3 CPU OEMCorsair XMS 409gMB PC6400 DDR 2 800 MHzEVGA GeForce 9500 GT 1GB PCIe w/ Dual Link DVI
- OS
- Windows 7 Ultimate 36 bit
- CPU
- AMD Athlon II x2 215 2.7GHz AM3 CPU OEM
- Motherboard
- ASUS M4A785-M 785G Socket AM2
- Memory
- Corsair XMS 409gMB PC6400 DDR 2 800 MHz
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA GeForce 9500 GT 1GB PCIe w/ Dual Link DVI
- Hard Drives
- WD Caviar 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/32MB/SATA-3G
- Case
- Coolermaster CM690 Nvidia ED. ATX Case SLI ready
