Hi
I'm supposed to be fixing a friends PC. First it would turn on but nothing was output from VGA port (didn't have graphics card at the time). This PC was working when I last fixed it 8 years ago but has just been sitting not plugged in all that time. I bought a new motherboard, fitted it in.
It turns on but when I try to put in a USB drive to install Windows, it freezes. I saw the actual dot circle freeze when loading Windows 10, Windows 7 just seemed to stay shimmering but nothing else happened. I have just tried a memtest usb and that has just had a blinking cursor on black background, nothing seems to be loading. Have I got a dud motherboard? It came with 2GB ddr3 and have tried that and the 4GB ddr3 I had already but the same. This is a old mobo for a old CPU, Asus P5G41T-M-LX and a E5500 CPU, recognised fine in bios. Could it be the PSU? it's only 210W, I noticed the 12v rail was something like 11.77v in bios. Have loaded default settings in bios. I have another PSU I can test I guess. It also has a GT 710 in it. Both Windows usb's were MBR in rufus as it doesn't have a UEFI bios. memtest should be able to do either.
Any thoughts?
I'm supposed to be fixing a friends PC. First it would turn on but nothing was output from VGA port (didn't have graphics card at the time). This PC was working when I last fixed it 8 years ago but has just been sitting not plugged in all that time. I bought a new motherboard, fitted it in.
It turns on but when I try to put in a USB drive to install Windows, it freezes. I saw the actual dot circle freeze when loading Windows 10, Windows 7 just seemed to stay shimmering but nothing else happened. I have just tried a memtest usb and that has just had a blinking cursor on black background, nothing seems to be loading. Have I got a dud motherboard? It came with 2GB ddr3 and have tried that and the 4GB ddr3 I had already but the same. This is a old mobo for a old CPU, Asus P5G41T-M-LX and a E5500 CPU, recognised fine in bios. Could it be the PSU? it's only 210W, I noticed the 12v rail was something like 11.77v in bios. Have loaded default settings in bios. I have another PSU I can test I guess. It also has a GT 710 in it. Both Windows usb's were MBR in rufus as it doesn't have a UEFI bios. memtest should be able to do either.
Any thoughts?
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sorted byThe above implies you have a bootable USB containing a Windows ISO,
in which case the bootable USB is inserted into USB port prior to boot, not after.
A basic option requiring only a relatively small file download, auto-burn to USB and some integral tools is available from Aomei at
ubackup.com/pe-…tml
or the two obvious WinPE contenders for tinkerers complete with large number of tools (legit or otherwise) would be
Gandalf’s Windows 10PE (example ref archive.is/X85Y7)
and
Sergei Strelec WinPE (example ref archive.is/PNNTz)
although if acquiring from those sources there will be the faff of un-rar & Rufus.
I tried his original board with my PSU and used a graphics card, it was more than just the VGA port not working as that still had no monitor output, you could see no hard drive activity either, so something was wrong with that, probably capacitors I expect, it was working in 2015 when I last fixed it though, it hadn't been plugged in all that time though and yes I changed the battery (edited)