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ok ive tried:
- replaced the Vid card with my old faithful 880GT (the one im using on the puter im typing this on), there was no change in how the boot failure occurrs. So the vid card isnt the issue. GTX275 is now back in the system.
- ive removed the data HDD jumper /power and 2 of the 3 ram sticks.
- Made a USB win7 OS bootdisc from a 64bit image file downloaded and used the windows USB boot disk creator exe. This was done on a vista 32bit machine but im thinking that shouldnt matter. When i selected to load from USB using F8 on startup/bios, i get the single line error along the lines of: 'boot partition unavailable or corrupted' at which point it stops and sits there on that black screen with the above line and a flashing cursor. (have to turn off or hard boot) I can confirm the exact wording of that error line if needed. IS this error pointing at the C; with the OS install on it or at the USb bootdisk i created??
-windows mem test in the system recovery menu. But it doesnt give any results on restart because w7 doesnt load .obviously.
currently i'm trying memtest86 on a single stick of ram in slot0 via a usb boot, letting it do the 5 pasess. Will post results when done.