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PC wont boot. Help appreciated.

phoenix833 · 2010-09-28 20:48:10

I just bought a PC from HWVS and after a friend of mine installed Windows 7 the PC won't boot. Now he says that the PSU might not be powerful enough or the the RAM could be incompatible. Here's the system... 4GB-Kit OCZ DDR3 PC3-10666 Gold Low Voltage Corsair CX400W 400 Watt Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3, Intel P55, ATX, DDR3,…

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28-09-2010 9:48pm

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phoenix833

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I just bought a PC from HWVS and after a friend of mine installed Windows 7 the PC won't boot. Now he says that the PSU might not be powerful enough or the the RAM could be incompatible.

Here's the system...

4GB-Kit OCZ DDR3 PC3-10666 Gold Low Voltage
Corsair CX400W 400 Watt
Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3, Intel P55, ATX, DDR3, PCI-Express
Intel Core i5-760 Box 8192Kb, LGA1156
Sapphire HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 PCI-Express
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB, SATA II

Now HWVS never said there was a compatibility issue with the RAM so could it be the PSU? But I thought I read on a thread here before that the 400W was powerful enough because it was a good make?

Any Ideas?

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#2 28-09-2010 9:54pm
Solitaire

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Win7 is on it? Is the machine reaching POST but failing to load Windows?

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#3 29-09-2010 10:09am
Phobious

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Try disconnecting the HDD and DVD drive from the power supply and then try booting it. If it works its most likely the PSU!

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