Windows boot hangs, HW failure ?

[Frag1]

Hello,

I have a problem with my old system, two days ago windows 7 stopped working, it would just hang on the 'starting windows screen'.

Thing is i tried repairing/reinstalling using a known-good usb stick and it wont let me, it hangs in exactly the same way. The screen is stuck on starting windows, the mouse backlight goes dark, the numlock light turns off. Now at this point im thinking it might be hw related ? Any advice ? Thanks.

 

 

system specs: gigabyte H55M S2H, i3 530, 8GB ddr3, gtx 970, W7 x64 HP

i can try replacing ram and gpu right away, cpu in 2 weeks.

[TheBean]

1 minute ago, Frag1 said:

Hello,

I have a problem with my old system, two days ago windows 7 stopped working, it would just hang on the 'starting windows screen'.

Thing is i tried repairing/reinstalling using a known-good usb stick and it wont let me, it hangs in exactly the same way. The screen is stuck on starting windows, the mouse backlight goes dark, the numlock light turns off. Now at this point im thinking it might be hw related ? Any advice ? Thanks.

 

 

system specs: gigabyte H55M S2H, i3 530, 8GB ddr3, gtx 970, W7 x64 HP

i can try replacing ram and gpu right away, cpu in 2 weeks.

have you tried installing linux?

make a live usb drive and see of the computer still crashes. if not, then its a windows error. if it is a windows error, try win10

[Frag1]

Ill try it tomorrow but it doesnt really solve the problem.

[Bombastinator]

Yes. Upgrade windows.

 It won’t help your problem at all, but windows 7 is EOL.  It no longer gets security updates.  It’s a danger.

[Frag1]

Upgrade is beside the point. It crashes both with w10 and memtest usbs.

However trying to run w10 yielded one usefull infromation: kernel security check failure.

Makes sence, read that in can be caused by ram issues, i probably fcked the slot last time i yanked the stick out sideways. Its just odd it didnt happen right away.

Oh well... Its christmas soon anyway.