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(solved)Why booting on stops at intel sign?
jraju:
Hi, Excellent wealth of information.
But trying to format with the dvd , also does not work, as it is failing at POST stage itself. Is that anything to do with hard disk failure.
Or should i change the BIOs settings other than boot priority. Because it does not go past POST.
Boggin:
If you are able to boot up with the install disk, you may be able to do the Upgrade install - not sure if the Custom install would work as you're supposed to do that within Windows, but you could give both a try which may negate the need to try and reformat.
When you get to the MS splash screen select Install and follow the prompts from there.
I'm going to have to go now because I have a busy morning but either install is going to take a couple of hours.
jraju:
Hi,
No. Only I want to test from dvd and not from running windows to test that hard disk.
Boggin:
While newness doesn't guarantee serviceability, I think the new HDD will be fine and it's because of the change of hardware that is causing it not to boot.
If you can connect it to your computer as an additional drive and it recognizes it - check its drive letter either in Windows Explorer or Disk Management then open an admin command prompt and enter chkdsk x: /r where x is the drive letter, that should do the disk check on it.
Really have to go now.
Shane:
The OS needs to be installed on the same system. But that isnt the problem right now, it isnt even getting to that part. When it is at the intel sign is when the bios is checking the hardware, it hasnt even started trying to boot windows. So the windows install and drivers have no effect at this point.
Normally when the bios is locking up like that it is because of a bad setting, bad hardware or perhaps a bad cable. I had a new ssd drive I put into a older system and the bios would freeze up trying to detect it, so I found their was a firmware update for the ssd that fixed that problem and after putting the firmware on the drive the system was fine.
That is simply an example how it can be a number of different things. Normally I would say it is the hard drive, but since the drive can be put in another system and it is detected fine tells me the drive is ok.
So that means we need to check what else the bios is looking at and how the drive is plugged in.
Here is what I would do, take the drive out, turn on the system and go into the bios. There is normally a setting to hide the boot up logo and instead show what the bios is doing, that way you can see at what part it is stopping at when it freezes up. :wink:
Shane
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