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Hyper-Threaded

Hyper-Threaded

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Hi, I got a computer from a friend, he told me it wont boot. It has a 2ghz Pentium duel core, 3gigs of ram and a 500gig hdd. Had Vista on it. I got it and cleaned the dust out and tried it and it posts, you can go in bios, but after the black screen with a white dash in top left freezes instead of blinking. I tried putting acouple different OS on it from dvd and usb, the boot order is correct, and still freezes allowing you to do nothing. Is the motherboard shot? Thanks.
 
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Hi, I got a computer from a friend, he told me it wont boot. It has a 2ghz Pentium duel core, 3gigs of ram and a 500gig hdd. Had Vista on it. I got it and cleaned the dust out and tried it and it posts, you can go in bios, but after the black screen with a white dash in top left freezes instead of blinking. I tried putting acouple different OS on it from dvd and usb, the boot order is correct, and still freezes allowing you to do nothing. Is the motherboard shot? Thanks.
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The motherboard might be shot if you were trying to run components that use more wattage than the maximum allowance of the power supply provides. I would look to the memory dying, had you not said it does in fact POST. Can it be started in safe mode?
 
Disconnect everything but keyboard, mouse, 1 stick of ram and video card. See if it will boot up. Remove all usb devices and pci addin cards if they exist. Usually this symptom is from a bad hard drive or ram.
 
Disconnect everything but keyboard, mouse, 1 stick of ram and video card. See if it will boot up. Remove all usb devices and pci addin cards if they exist. Usually this symptom is from a bad hard drive or ram.
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Ive disconnected the hard drive, im gonna try ram. And it came with a factory 400w psu with 2 16amp 12v+ rails. I cannot boot in safe mode because it frezzes when its trying to find a boot device. I put the hard drive in another computer and it works it goes to the repair vista screen because its a different computer.
 
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