computer wont start

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Tracy Brink

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Asus Essentio CG5270 running Windows 7
This 7 y.o. computer had a harddrive failure about 6 months ago, I replaced the harddrive and had no issues until one day recently I came back to my computer after a few hours away and it was frozen. Trying to restart produced nothing but a black screen. I can hear the harddrive start. My recovery disk will not run. What kind of problem does this sound like?
 
If you disconnect the hard drive, you should get an error that says operating system not found or insert proper boot media or something along those lines instead of a black screen. I've seen many of times a bad hard drive will cause this issue.
 
Also listen for beeps when the computer starts up. Often a computer will tell you through beeps (refer to manual, if nothing else of motherboard or better yet computer model for what the beeps mean) if there is a hardware failure other than hard drive. Most cases 4 beeps means video card failure.
 
johnb35 is right, disconnected harddrive and my screen came up with a request for a boot disk.
So, why would I have multiple (3) harddrive failures with this computer?
 
What brand of drives are you using? You may have an issue with your system causing the drive failures such as a faulty power supply.
 
Still using the original power supply? I would definitely get it checked out. Do you have power outages or surges at your house?
 
everything is original except harddrive and ram.
we don't experience many power outages at this address, but there has been two this past year.
do you think this harddrive could get data recovered from it? it gave me no warning it would fail, the previous two did warn me the end was near.
 
I would take it to a local reputable computer repair center and see if they can diagnose the bad drive. Sometimes you can run the diagnostic and it will repair the drive good enough to recover the data. If you are computer savvy, then you can download Seatools for dos and create a bootable cd to test the drive.
 
thanks john, you've been very helpful.
I think my plan is to get a new computer, but see if data can be recovered off the failed harddrive.
 
hi john,
before any of this harddrive problem started I set up this computer and my other computer with a keyboard-mouse-monitor switch. Do you know if that switch could create the problem I am experiencing?
I found an inexpensive harddrive and installed it, and the system has started and run well. Still have that switch setup.
 
Anything could be possible especially if there was something up with the switch. But I would suspects its something else causing the bad hard drives.
 
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