fuck you computer (help me fix my computer) {Because H&A is for faggots}

Ranx

guys I just recently bought a new power supply, stick of ram, and vidja card for my computer

I installed them, everything was running fine and dandy

today, I defragged my hard drive, and then like 20 minutes later my machine freezes up

I reboot it, and I get a blinking white dash on the top left corner of a black screen; I can't type

I can go into bios though before the dash hits

WHAT DO I DO

Orikaeshigitae

>fdisk

Macro9

Does your motherboard beep? Have you checked to see if your harddrive is recognized in your bios? Take out the new stick of ram and see if the problem goes away.

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Ranx

if there are no recognized sata drives does that mean it doesn't see my hard drive

Macro9

Ranx wrote: »

if there are no recognized sata drives does that mean it doesn't see my hard drive

If your HDD is sata then yes.

Ranx

well the things it sees are

Primary IDE Master

and

Secondary IDE Slave

Tossrock

Have you tried reversing the polarity?

Weaver

AHHHHH


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHHA

Ranx

is it possible that defragging killed my hard drive

like, it was so fragmented, that I upset a delicate balance of it just barely working

Orikaeshigitae

> deltree c: y

Weaver

Ranx wrote: »

is it possible that defragging killed my hard drive

like, it was so fragmented, that I upset a delicate balance of it just barely working

Nope.

Ranx

weaver why don't you just go fall down again

Macro9

Ranx wrote: »

is it possible that defragging killed my hard drive

like, it was so fragmented, that I upset a delicate balance of it just barely working

Is it SSD?

Weaver

Nope.

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Ranx

okay never mind it turns out it does see my hard drive

Weaver

I'll come fix it for you but I'll be charging mileage + time and a half per hour of my rate that I actually get paid for doing this shit all day at work.

Otherwise just use googles dude

Ranx

I did try googles

Weaver

did you try doubling the googles

Weaver

DID YOU TRY HITTING F8 AFTER THE BIOS LOADS AND MAYBE TRYING SAFE MODE?

Weaver

this is why I can't post in HA I'll just choke people until their shit works

Ranx

yes I did

it said "loading boot menu" but just went back to the blinking light

Orikaeshigitae

i can't remember if this is a sign of a corrupted boot sector or not

Macro9

Ranx wrote: »

yes I did

it said "loading boot menu" but just went back to the blinking light

Does it lockup when you are tooling around in the bios?

Ranx

can I just wipe my drive and reinstall windows

I don't really have anything on there I needed

all my important porn was backed up so

Weaver

You need a PE environment disk

basically a live CD but windows instead of linux

run chkdsk c: /f [or/r if you have time]

If you have install media for the OS run a repair install

Ranx

Macro9 wrote: »

Ranx wrote: »

yes I did

it said "loading boot menu" but just went back to the blinking light

Does it lockup when you are tooling around in the bios?

no it doesn't

Ranx

Weaver wrote: »

You need a PE environment disk

basically a live CD but windows instead of linux

run chkdsk c: /f [or/r if you have time]

If you have install media for the OS run a repair install

but weaver I can't run anything I can't type from the blinking dash screen

Weaver

Ranx wrote: »

Weaver wrote: »

You need a PE environment disk

basically a live CD but windows instead of linux

run chkdsk c: /f [or/r if you have time]

If you have install media for the OS run a repair install

but weaver I can't run anything I can't type from the blinking dash screen

That's why you need a PE cd dude

make one

Weaver

god fuck I said use googles but here have at it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BartPE

Ranx

how would I go about that; the only other computer I have available to me is my macbook

Weaver

never mind where it says "legal" it's totally "not lying"

Tossrock

Ranx wrote: »

Weaver wrote: »

You need a PE environment disk

basically a live CD but windows instead of linux

run chkdsk c: /f [or/r if you have time]

If you have install media for the OS run a repair install

but weaver I can't run anything I can't type from the blinking dash screen

you use the bootable CD to start the OS and then run from there brosephine

Weaver

Ranx wrote: »

how would I go about that; the only other computer I have available to me is my macbook

go bug Neville

Ranx

I'm not in seattle anymore!

Weaver

welp

Orikaeshigitae

don't you have any friends, ranx?

Ranx

I think you know the answer to that

CrossBuster

Have you tried checking the gigabytes?

Ranx

UPDATE:

I was out for a couple hours, I came back, and it boots up to windows normally for about 5 minutes before freezing again and then when I reboot it it does the blinkee thing again