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Originally Posted by ryanfx
Tsar that's stuck @ a BIOS level - nothing to do with your operating system.
unplug absolutely everything including harddrives (so... floppy if you have one, harddrives, CDROM, any other peripherals including printers and sorts, EXCEPT your keyboard, yes, even yank your mouse)
If it moves past this screen and fails with the OS load then you have a problem with one of your hardware pieces, start replacing your hardware one by one until it freezes again and you know what the problem is.
If you still get this error unplug all but one of your RAM chips if you have more than one, if that still hangs swap the one ram chip with one you have unplugged.
if that STILL doesn't work there's a 99% chance your mobo is fried. cheers.
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Thanks, that's is kinda what I did. I just unplugged everything to make sure everything was still ok and connected. After I reconnected everything and turned it on, it was fine. I'm posting from the desktop in question now.
So wtf just happened to it? it's like a giant hick up...
I checked the event viewer for any errors and the only error was from fallout 3 crashing on the 1/9/09 otherwise there was nothing there besides little info messages (anti virus has updated, etc) ...
I'm glad that its back up and and working but I already priced out other parts for a nice upgrade, damn it!
