so a couple days ago i started having problems with my computer. everything was fine until i turned it off and when i turned it on the next day all the logos and everything pops up it goes to the windows loading screen and then just goes black and does nothing. it dosent beep or anything. i thought that maybe windows was corrupted from an update or something and did a clean install yesterday. it worked fine all day and i even restart it and turned it off a few times and nothing happened. then today its doing the same thing again. does anyone know what could be causing it?.

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I know literally nothing, i'm just posting this to keep your thread alive. #BUMP!!!

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See if your ram is going dead, use memtest or something. Google is your friend.

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I ran memtest and didnt get any errors.

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Run a test on each individual component. Find out which one is the problem and then replace it.

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It seems like a hardware problem maybe, the culprit is the energy supply?

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If it was the power supply wouldn't that keep it from booting at all?. because I can get into the bios and have been able to boot into linux with any problem.

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if you can boot into Linux but not Windows, than problem is Windows. Reinstall or Maybe stay with Linux?

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I reinstalled once already and the same thing happened the next day.

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bad copy of Windows installation? that can happen

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I'll try reinstalling from a different disk and see if it happens again.

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Or maybe your monitor is dying.

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Does it restart? First, Open the case. Dust it and test it again checking if its too hot.

Turn it off. Make sure you ground yourself by touching the metal parts of the case before touching any internal component (<--Extremely important) unplug it (<--very important), remove any external cards you dont need (ethernet/sound/usb). Plug it in again (<--Very important) turn it on and test. If the system boots, well, trial and error will tell you which of the cards or slots failed.

If that doesnt work. Remove all but 1 ram module, check if the module or the slot itself failed.

That should do it. Else, its probably a short, remove the mobo from the case and test it outside.

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No it does not restart after it goes black. I tested to ram and didnt get any errors and took mobo out of the case and cleaned everything and tested but it still does it.

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Did you removed the extra pci cards?

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yes the only pci card is the graphics card.

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Have you checked the temperature of your GPU?

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yes it stays around 30c.

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Also try giving it A LOT of time. I once experienced the same thing (going to load screen then black): turned out it was running ScanDisk, without showing me the appropriate screen.

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Any idea how long it would take?.

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The one time it happened to me, it took about 10-15 minutes. If it's taking you more than 30 minutes, there's a good chance it's something else.

Plan B: use a bootable CD of some Linux distro and copy your important data, then reinstall Windows.

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Have you tried to see if you can get into Safe Mode? Before the windows logo pops up showing its loading keep hitting f8 and boot into safe mode see if it let's you. If it doesn't then we'll proceed to step 2. Good Luck.

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yes I can get into safe mode.

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Closed 10 years ago by randtb.