PC wont boot!?!!? please help

[MantisCSS]

Hiya guys, well i was surfing the net a min ago, and my PC suddenly did a restart. it then said somehtign bout loading boot CD or devices or something, cant remmeber exactly what, i then took out and plugged back in the HDD cable on my mobo, and this tiem it goes tot he windows loading screen for about 2 secs then flashes a blue screen then does a restart, ive tried reseating my Ram, and resettign CMOs but the same thing keeps happening, PLEASE HELP ME!!!!

Regards Rich

[Clunk]

will it boot in safe mode?

[MantisCSS]

nope just lists a load of stuff tehn restarts :S

[Clunk]

is the cpu overclocked? if so stick it all back to defaults and se if that helps.

[MantisCSS]

yeh, was runnign stable at 2.80 on stock volts, ive already tried setting it back to default and it still doesnt work

[Clunk]

just reading your other posts about the sata cable...do you have another that you can try?...and if that doesnt help, take out one of your graphics cards and one of the sticks of ram and anything else thats not needed for booting like cd/dvdrom, sound card etc and see what happens then.

[MantisCSS]

okey dokey, cheers m8!! i do hate PC's soemtimes, what a mission!!!

[MantisCSS]

sorry guys, i reaslly need help here, i dont know what else to do, i took out a stick of ram, 1 of my graphics cards, unplugged CD drives and took out sound card but it still did not work, i plugged in a spare 60GB maxtor and its now saying NTLDR is missing press control alt delete to restart.!?!?! im begging someone to help!!

[Clunk]

boot from the windows cd and do a fixboot. ive found this to work when my hard drive has been corrupted when ive been tinkering about with memory settings when overclocking.

[MantisCSS]

is that under repair when i boot up the windows CD coz when i do thast i click repair then it just goes black screen n says type exit to exit and doesnt acctuarly doa nyhting.

[Clunk]

yeah the recovery console...you need to go into the bios and make the cd the first boot device...

if the screen is going black and recovery console wont work, then may be time for a fresh install of windows.

[mike_w]

(Having just your other thread): I could explain what NTDLR is, but somebody else already has: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLDR. It's probably a better explanation anyway!

Easiest solution is to just try and reinstall Windows, even if only on a spare hard drive.

[MantisCSS]

that NTDLR thingy ponly came up when i tried to do boot another hard drive instead, ive now gone back tot eh original hard drive and its still happenign when the windows bar is laoding then the blue screen for a split sec the the restart, ive tried doing the reapir on the windows CD with setting the CD drive as the 1st boot, and it justs ays type exit to exit and nothign happens.

[Clunk]

wont it even let you reinstall windows? and is the ram definately running at the default settings?

[mike_w]

If you want, you can test your CPU using Memtest or Prime95 (you can stick memtest on a floppy, and both come on UBCD)

[Hobo_geek]

I'd check the health of that Maxtor hdd because I've always found them very tempormental. if you use the following link and then click on your hard disk family and download PowerMax. A word of warning though read the instructions very carefully as some tests can delete data of your hdd. So it might be an idea to use a Linux Live cd to backup your data if you haven't already done so.

Download PowerMax for Your Maxtor hdd