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does the hdd work by itself and does the ram work by itself?

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So I have an old laptop I recently acquired for 80 dollars. I put a 7.2k rpm 500 Gb wd blue in to increase the dtorage and speed and upgraded from 4 gb of 800mhz ram to 8 Gb of 1333 ram. (No money spent on those cause they were free from a broken system) so now every time I try to boot to my windows 10 installer usb it just shuts off. The hard drive is completely empty and is brand new and when I try to boot to it and then insert my boot disk I get this (see attached picture) which honestly I don't understand because I haven't worked in Windows in years, just linux and OS X. So what is causing this? And how can I fix it?

 

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That error message is from the laptop trying to do a network boot. You could see if you can disable the network boot in BIOS and that could help. I would also test the HDD and RAM in another system to make sure they work properly.

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1 minute ago, Firewrath9 said:

does the hdd work by itself and does the ram work by itself?

Yes it's all tested and working. What I have tested is that one of the old sticks of ram has a cracked chip which I plan on re0lacing cause I have an extra and the old hard drive just flat out does not work and makes the horrible sound whenever you shake it...plater is shattered..R.I.P 380gb 5k rpm hdd..

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11 minutes ago, Eastman51 said:

That error message is from the laptop trying to do a network boot. You could see if you can disable the network boot in BIOS and that could help. I would also test the HDD and RAM in another system to make sure they work properly.

the thing with that is that network boot is already disabled.

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17 minutes ago, Eastman51 said:

That error message is from the laptop trying to do a network boot. You could see if you can disable the network boot in BIOS and that could help. I would also test the HDD and RAM in another system to make sure they work properly.

okay now it got past it but it said 'your PC has run into a problem and needs to restart, well restart it for you' but now that i tried to boot again it is still doing nothing.

 

 

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23 minutes ago, Eastman51 said:

That error message is from the laptop trying to do a network boot. You could see if you can disable the network boot in BIOS and that could help. I would also test the HDD and RAM in another system to make sure they work properly.

i think i'm going to pull out the 860 evo and try that instead.

 

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40 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

does the hdd work by itself and does the ram work by itself?

a simple reseating all the components did the trick, sorry for bothering you guys!

 

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