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What happened to my PC?
Doctor Detroit
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Everything seems to be working, but nothing is.
Started out having some issues with my wifi adapter dropping. Thought it might be the adapter so I upgraded it.
Then the install couldn't find the new one, but Windows found wireless networks. But the keyboard couldn't type the password. So I rebooted.
And now we're hanging on the boot.
CPU is there.
USB controllers initialized.
It says the RAM is OK.
...and that's it.
I haven't been inside in a while, so I'm guessing something died of old age.
Any suggestions?
EDIT: I got it into Windows. But it's slow. I think it might be the HDD.
Started out having some issues with my wifi adapter dropping. Thought it might be the adapter so I upgraded it.
Then the install couldn't find the new one, but Windows found wireless networks. But the keyboard couldn't type the password. So I rebooted.
And now we're hanging on the boot.
CPU is there.
USB controllers initialized.
It says the RAM is OK.
...and that's it.
I haven't been inside in a while, so I'm guessing something died of old age.
Any suggestions?
EDIT: I got it into Windows. But it's slow. I think it might be the HDD.
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Unplug everything that isn't essential:
Remove the video card, disconnect all drives and peripherals, remove all but one ram stick (leave the one stick in the socket closest to the cpu).
See if it can boot into the bios. If it does, it's probably not the mobo, if it doesn't it probably is.