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classyguy · 09-08-2008, 05:24 PM

I built my computer about 8 months ago and it has been running well until today when the thing just would not start up.

I was helping a friend test his computer with my graphics card recently so I had my GPU plugged into the mobo but it was not screwed into the case. Today I went in and screwed in the GPU to the mobo and found that one of the pins was loose on the cpu fan, so i tightened that too.

I went to boot the system and it got past all posting it shows started booting windows and dead. The computer had completely shut down. I thought this was kind of strange and tried again. Same problem.

Windows then interupts the boot cycle and tries to run a diagnostic on the disk. It said it was a three stage test and it died trying to start the third test (This happened twice at the same spot).

I then tried to go into the bios, but it died while I was in the bios environment.

Any ideas?

09-08-2008, 05:24 PM	#1 (permalink)
classyguy Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 3 OS: vista home premium 64 bit My System	[SOLVED] Random Shutdown during Boot sequence I built my computer about 8 months ago and it has been running well until today when the thing just would not start up. I was helping a friend test his computer with my graphics card recently so I had my GPU plugged into the mobo but it was not screwed into the case. Today I went in and screwed in the GPU to the mobo and found that one of the pins was loose on the cpu fan, so i tightened that too. I went to boot the system and it got past all posting it shows started booting windows and dead. The computer had completely shut down. I thought this was kind of strange and tried again. Same problem. Windows then interupts the boot cycle and tries to run a diagnostic on the disk. It said it was a three stage test and it died trying to start the third test (This happened twice at the same spot). I then tried to go into the bios, but it died while I was in the bios environment. Any ideas?