caltraskoo
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So I had my own built computer for over a year now, running fine. One day, I decided to try to swap my gts 450 with a gtx 260, which didn't work. I said, fine, I'll just put the gts 450 back in.
After I put the gts 450 back in, my computer stops working. I turn on my computer, no noise, no startup.
After reworking the RAM (taking it out and putting it back in) it gets a start up screen.
So firstly, just by attempting to replace my Video Card, my RAM gets ****ed up....
After I get the start up screen, it tells me that boot manager is corrupt.So now, just by a video card exchange attempt, my boot manager is ****ed up.
Now I restarted the computer several times, and the computer doesn't even start up 1/3 of the time, it turns on, no noise, no startup.
The other 2/3 of the time, the start up goes to my hardware monitor (normal), but because I have my OEM disk in (because I need to reinstall windows), it brings me up to a Windows is Loading Files screen. There is a completion bar, but the bar never goes to full, saying some error message that my HDD or CD Drive is failing, or some other BS. Either that happens, or it just freezes during the loading files stage, it goes a tick every second, but then stops, and stays there for 5 minutes plus. Either that, or my computer just starts a loud constant beeping (lost my pc handbook so IDK what that beeping means).
If I startup w/o the OEM CD, it just says bootmanger is corrupt.
So this is absolutely ridiculous I just try to switch a video card, and my entire computer basically dies. Then when I try to fix it, instead of a constant thing happening (e.g. just one of the things of the four I said keeps happening), it turns up 4 different things, making it much harder to fix.
Steps towards fixing
So far due to potential HDD failure as suggested by Windows, I replaced my HDD, which did nothing. I redid RAM, did nothing.
So my question is:
How do I fix it?
How in the world did my computer die due to a video card exchange?
EDIT: Great, started it up, and now it brings me a 5th different thing, instead of a biostar bios starting up, American Megatrends starts up... and says CMOS Checksum bad. What the **** is going on?
EDIT2: REALLY? A 6th thing popped up, now there is a single beep, and there is a 7 second pause between each one.
After I put the gts 450 back in, my computer stops working. I turn on my computer, no noise, no startup.
After reworking the RAM (taking it out and putting it back in) it gets a start up screen.
So firstly, just by attempting to replace my Video Card, my RAM gets ****ed up....
After I get the start up screen, it tells me that boot manager is corrupt.So now, just by a video card exchange attempt, my boot manager is ****ed up.
Now I restarted the computer several times, and the computer doesn't even start up 1/3 of the time, it turns on, no noise, no startup.
The other 2/3 of the time, the start up goes to my hardware monitor (normal), but because I have my OEM disk in (because I need to reinstall windows), it brings me up to a Windows is Loading Files screen. There is a completion bar, but the bar never goes to full, saying some error message that my HDD or CD Drive is failing, or some other BS. Either that happens, or it just freezes during the loading files stage, it goes a tick every second, but then stops, and stays there for 5 minutes plus. Either that, or my computer just starts a loud constant beeping (lost my pc handbook so IDK what that beeping means).
If I startup w/o the OEM CD, it just says bootmanger is corrupt.
So this is absolutely ridiculous I just try to switch a video card, and my entire computer basically dies. Then when I try to fix it, instead of a constant thing happening (e.g. just one of the things of the four I said keeps happening), it turns up 4 different things, making it much harder to fix.
Steps towards fixing
So far due to potential HDD failure as suggested by Windows, I replaced my HDD, which did nothing. I redid RAM, did nothing.
So my question is:
How do I fix it?
How in the world did my computer die due to a video card exchange?
EDIT: Great, started it up, and now it brings me a 5th different thing, instead of a biostar bios starting up, American Megatrends starts up... and says CMOS Checksum bad. What the **** is going on?
EDIT2: REALLY? A 6th thing popped up, now there is a single beep, and there is a 7 second pause between each one.