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Cannot Boot Vista Media Center anymore nor enter BIOS Utility?

Last post 07-03-2008, 9:49 PM by RenegadeELEN. 2 replies.
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  •  07-03-2008, 5:32 PM 271677

    Cannot Boot Vista Media Center anymore nor enter BIOS Utility?

    Computer starts up and checks the CPU, RAM, and Memory space, but then stops.  Vista will not load and I cannot enter the BIOS.  Any thoughts as to what is wrong?  Thanks for the help.

    Brian

  •  07-03-2008, 9:02 PM 271706 in reply to 271677

    Re: Cannot Boot Vista Media Center anymore nor enter BIOS Utility?

    Oooooooooooo that sucks.

    Could be that it won't post because it is running into a bad component. I would start disconnecting things, starting with the hard drive to see if the system will finishing posting.

    good luck.

    sYn

    HP Pavilion Elite m9000t (TV Pack installed)
    2 Gigs Ram
    500Gb Disk Space
    8500GT
    2 x ATI Digital Cable Wonder (Charter Digital Cable)
    1 x Silicondust HDHomerun (QAM to ATSC remap)
    1 x Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive
    1 x LG Bluray Drive
    1 x DMA 2100 extender
  •  07-03-2008, 9:49 PM 271725 in reply to 271706

    Re: Cannot Boot Vista Media Center anymore nor enter BIOS Utility?

    Yeah I would remove all drives (IDE, SATA, and Floppy) and try then.  You then want it to boot still it says there isn't any boot device and then start adding back.  When it is down to MOBO, CPU, RAM, and Power Supply and it still won't boot then you can either start shotgunning it or call it a loss.  Easiest (and cheapest) things to replace are of course the Power Supply and RAM.
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