deathret
January 14th, 2009, 10:39 AM
Cliff notes:
Computer freezes up.
Can't access bios.
Help.
One week ago, I ran everest to look up a part on my computer. Half way through making the hardware report it crashed. I rebooted and ran everest again, same thing. I missed both times what it was testing before it crashes... (it is an immediate crash.) But it was at the same place both times. Every thing else was fine. I looked at the temps, they are all fine. Device manager looked fine. I was going to look at the error history in admin tools, but forgot.
Then yesterday I was playing Halo CE and It frooze up. Thinking this was weird, I rebooted. I started up Halo CE again, and it freezes up on loading screen. The hard drive light is not flashing (ei. running). I reboot again. And no it freezes up on the Abit logo screen. I can't access bios, just frozen. I shut it down and wait. Half hour later I boot it up again. I boots up fine. I run checkdisk. It runs through steps 1 and 2 fine. On 3 it fixes a lot of security files. On step four it fixes a random image file for my DVD movie player. At 90% it freezes again. I reboot, skip checkdisk and run spyware and virus check (it takes it much longer then normal to run virus scanner with intermittant pauses.) It finds nothing. I reboot and run checkdisk again to see if it can find anything else. It passes steps 1-3 fine. Freezes on 93% on step 4 again. I reboot it again. It is frozen at the ABIT logo again. I shut it down for the night. I booted it up again this morning, still frozen on ABIT logo.
So, any ideas? I guess it is my hard drive. But I don't know... can't you access the bios without the hard drive? About 6 months ago I replaced my PSU... it went bad. I downloaded the diagosic tool for WD to test the hard drive... but recently I can't get pass the ABIT logo. The fans all come on, the lights look good on the MB. I'll open up the case when I get home to test the connections in the case and remove non essential components. But in the mean time, do you guys have any suggestions?
My computer specs are in my profile, I bought it about 3.5 years ago... And I don't have the cash to buy another one at the moment... so fixing it would be ideal.
Computer freezes up.
Can't access bios.
Help.
One week ago, I ran everest to look up a part on my computer. Half way through making the hardware report it crashed. I rebooted and ran everest again, same thing. I missed both times what it was testing before it crashes... (it is an immediate crash.) But it was at the same place both times. Every thing else was fine. I looked at the temps, they are all fine. Device manager looked fine. I was going to look at the error history in admin tools, but forgot.
Then yesterday I was playing Halo CE and It frooze up. Thinking this was weird, I rebooted. I started up Halo CE again, and it freezes up on loading screen. The hard drive light is not flashing (ei. running). I reboot again. And no it freezes up on the Abit logo screen. I can't access bios, just frozen. I shut it down and wait. Half hour later I boot it up again. I boots up fine. I run checkdisk. It runs through steps 1 and 2 fine. On 3 it fixes a lot of security files. On step four it fixes a random image file for my DVD movie player. At 90% it freezes again. I reboot, skip checkdisk and run spyware and virus check (it takes it much longer then normal to run virus scanner with intermittant pauses.) It finds nothing. I reboot and run checkdisk again to see if it can find anything else. It passes steps 1-3 fine. Freezes on 93% on step 4 again. I reboot it again. It is frozen at the ABIT logo again. I shut it down for the night. I booted it up again this morning, still frozen on ABIT logo.
So, any ideas? I guess it is my hard drive. But I don't know... can't you access the bios without the hard drive? About 6 months ago I replaced my PSU... it went bad. I downloaded the diagosic tool for WD to test the hard drive... but recently I can't get pass the ABIT logo. The fans all come on, the lights look good on the MB. I'll open up the case when I get home to test the connections in the case and remove non essential components. But in the mean time, do you guys have any suggestions?
My computer specs are in my profile, I bought it about 3.5 years ago... And I don't have the cash to buy another one at the moment... so fixing it would be ideal.