Ok, so I am about to build a computer for the first time and in preparation, I decided to take apart my current PC to see what’s inside. The only things that I messed around with was: taking off the CPU fan and the CPU, examined the bottom, then replaced it. I then removed the cd rom drive, put it back in. Lastly, I took out a stick of ram, then put it back in. So now when I turn on my computer, it will sit on a black screen for a few minutes and I get an error about not being able to boot properly. I am able to boot on to a live linux CD, but it’s incredibly slow and I can’t even access my hard drive. If anyone has any clue as to what might have happened, please let me know. (if it makes any difference, I did touch the gray stuff on my cpu/fan, but i didn’t take it off or anything).
I have pretty much triple checked every thing (hardwarewise) the error message i’m getting is:
Windows Boot Manager: Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: Insert windows installation disk and restart your computer. Choose language. choose “Repair computer”.
I have tried this, perhaps there is another trick to work around this?
I have pretty much triple checked every thing (hardwarewise) the error message i’m getting is:
Windows Boot Manager: Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: Insert windows installation disk and restart your computer. Choose language. choose “Repair computer”.
I have tried this, perhaps there is another trick to work around this?
May be of use: Under the error instructions it says –
“Info: the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.”
