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Problem with BSOD and slow boot past BIOS.
Hi,
A couple weeks ago I bought a new CPU cooler, which, the fan didn't work, but my system was able to still run safely without the fan working for short periods of time. As far as I can tell the CPU has suffered no damage.
One boot up, it took along time to get past the initial boot up sequence and would not boot into windows or take a long time to repair.
After I reset the CMOS, it would refuse to boot into the BIOS. Nothing I could do could force it past either an eternal boot up sequence with all fans spinning up full speed, or a blinking line in the top left of the screen.
I sent back the Cooler and Motherboard. The retailer did not find any faults with the motherboard but installed newest version of the bios and were able to get it to boot up fine. Once I received both items back I got everything set up, first thing, cpu cooler is working fine. Second thing, it would advance past the error page before BIOS and give me the option to either start up window or repair.
starting it up takes it 5 minutes to blue screen into something along the lines of unbootable boot volume. With that I decided to go into startup repair, and it found a hard drive error. It said it would take over an hour, it is now sitting on 4 hours.
I found it strange that it would record a hard drive error, as it was not booting past bios or past current stage with hard drive unplugged.
The thing that's getting me is how sluggish the machine is running, I guess there is always the possibility the CPU was fried somewhat, but then would it continue to run the way it is?
had the machine for 6 months now, plenty of BSODS problems that I never resolved before but I'm 99% they are not connected. Operating system has been running fine for that time too, apart from those problems that I'm sure are Ram related.
Help would be appreciated, and if there is anything else you need to know please ask as I will be checking this thread fairly often.