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Ive had my pc set aside for a whole year and some change now because I just couldn't find the solution to my problem. Every time I try to boot from my ssd the windows logo would pop up for a good 3 seconds and then it just shuts off and loses all power. At first I thought it was a power supply issue so I disconnected every component from my power supply except some fans and jumped the green pin to a black pin on the 24 pin connector and the power supply stayed on for longer then it was so I ruled that out. I also disconnected the Sata cable from my ssd and turned on the pc and this time it stayed on but obviously didn't boot which was the whole point. Some other things I tried was booting from a different drive with windows, reseeded every component except cpu (ran out of thermal paste). Im just now stuck and now have to use a MacBook instead of my workstation which is inconvenient but If anyone has any advice, greatly appreciated!!

So there is this application/browser that many colleges around the New York area use to administer tests and exams online. The application in question is called Respondus Lockdown Browser. This browser basically is supposed to replace your traditional browsers (chrome, firefox...) when you're trying to take an exam. When lockdown browser is open it prevents you from switching to another application to prevent cheating. I thought I was smart and had the idea of creative a VM and using respondus within the VM so that I can freely switch between the VM and and my host pc to search up questions during the exam. I tried it and you can see how that turned out with the photo I attached to this post. Does anyone know of any parameters I can put in the .vmx file of the VM or is there anyway I can bypass this VM detection. I really need to figure this out by the end of October 7th. Here is the prepaid link to download Lockdown Browser if anyone wants to have a shot at bypassing this<Removed by staff> Please help me!!!

I found the problem. I didn't have normal startup selected in the boot menu in msconfig. Thanks for the help tho.

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cant be. they are all detected but I cant enable all of them from msconfig

I dont know about linux live disk and yes i did reset the bios

All of my 8 cores are enabled in bios but cpu-z shows only 2 cores and before you suggest this i already checked my boot options for my cpu cores in msconfig. Can someone help