PC FROM HELL

[V01DEV]

Alright I just finished building my friends pc and it seems like it has no end to problems with it, All components are new but I sold him my old motherboard and ram for cheap the parts are here (

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/VOIDEV/saved/LKZbhM
The first day I set it up it was all fine, left it at his place, without stress testing( forgot my laptop at home and only had one usb drive) and I drove home. the next day he said it wouldn't work, I looked into it and his pc was stuck on the motherboard bios screen, it wouldn't boot to windows, it acted as though windows wasn't even installed, we marked it up to a bad sata cable corrupting the data as it passed back and forth and we replaced the sata cable, reinstalled windows, the drivers, and this time I stress tested the system and everything looked good. the next day it was acting up again and he was unable to use his mouse and keyboard, they were bugging out and he just couldn't use them, we were somehow able to get a full virus scan to run and got rid of the culprits. the next day his windows is busted and when he turns it on it goes to the windows repair screen. I am thinking it is just a bad hard drive but want some more knowledgeable input. my friend is super pissed because he is new to computers and doesn't understand that things don't always work the first time and I would really like to get this solved quickly so he isn't put off by pc gaming. thank you in advance everyone!

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[emosun]

4 minutes ago, V01DEV said:

unable to use his mouse and keyboard, they were bugging out and he just couldn't use them, we were somehow able to get a full virus scan to run and got rid of the culprits.

how did a new installation of windows manage to get viruses , i'd be focused on why that happened and why it somehow effected the mouse and keyboard.

4 minutes ago, V01DEV said:

I am thinking it is just a bad hard drive

is the machine not using an ssd?

[V01DEV]

no, he had a 750$ budget and a ssd was out of the picture, plus around here we dont have the internet speed that would benefit from an ssd

[Aimi]

5 minutes ago, V01DEV said:

internet speed

 

5 minutes ago, V01DEV said:

benefit from an ssd

The fuck? You know read speed is a thing, right? That's one of the main things you want in a SSD. Internet speed doesn't matter.

Also, having an SSD out of the picture is just stupid, there's no reason to still be using a HDD as your boot drive, unless your PC literally does not support a modern SSD.

[V01DEV]

Alright im laying down the law, component choice is not an issue right now lol

 

[emosun]

9 minutes ago, V01DEV said:

plus around here we dont have the internet speed that would benefit from an ssd

yeah.... the internet..... NOT a relative thing when considering an ssd.

ssd's are pretty cheap and considerably faster than a hard drive with even the most basic 300$ build opting for an ssd. That was a pretty big mistake on your part.

When your internet loads information into your computer it's loaded into ram , which will always exceed the speed of any connection so again , the internet has very little to do with local performance when choosing parts

[Aimi]

19 minutes ago, V01DEV said:

I am thinking it is just a bad hard drive

 

4 minutes ago, V01DEV said:

component choice is not an issue right now

Sure seems like it could be.

[emosun]

2 minutes ago, V01DEV said:

Alright im laying down the law, component choice is not an issue right now lol

the reason why we'd focus on this , is because if you thought that the internet speed dictated component choice....... then what else happened when this machine was being assembled.

What is your experience level building computers? Is there anything else we need to know about the machine that may have been an unknown area of knowledge for you? it'll help us determine the problems it'll have.

[V01DEV]

alright new info, instead of being stuck on windows restore it is not detecting a os at all I have built a total of 8 computers and have never had something like this happen, I know it is still beginner level but I am also trying to get him the best components he can get. I did overview him make the system because he said he wanted to and it looked like he didnt do anything wrong.

 

Edited July 7, 2020 by V01DEV

[V01DEV]

ok now it is back to windows automatic recovery

 

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Troubleshooting

[BlackManINC]

@V01DEV

 

 This may seem off the wall, but have you tried removing that wireless adapter card? I remember this one guy who had issues booting into windows, and disabling his wi-fi in the bios worked for him, of all things, so there is a chance that his wi-fi adapter might be the problem. 

[V01DEV]

ok  @BlackManINC
instability in windows os due to wifi???
also I think I forgot to mention that it is an unactivated version of windows, so has anyone ever had instability issues with unactivated windows os?
when he gets home from work Ill have him try the fix and let you guys know

 

[V01DEV]

Thank you all for your input, All of you guys rock! ended up being a borderline DOA hard drive, it was clicking like crazy and we are making a warranty claim since he has only had it for about two weeks