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I was playing some games yesterday and my GPU drivers failed and I could not recover them and so i performed a clean install of new drivers.

Ok so now I have major issue here, after the install the screen went black and then my PC crashed. Now everytime I try to boot up my Alienware x51 R2 I get a blue screen shortly after the boot animation appears. I have tried to boot from 3 different HDD's 2 different OS's, 3 different Sata ports, 2 different Sata cables. Reset bios, checked all settings. After trying about 10 times to get a look at the error codes i managed to get a picture using a high shutter speed camera.

When entering system restore, startup repair, or a recovery disc boot peripherals stop working.

Intel core i5 4430

8 GB Ram

GeForce GTX 645 OEM

1 TB SATA, 2x 250GB SATA

Windows 7 Home premium

MOBO is Dell made: Andromeda

 

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 I'm just gonna go ahead and blame this on Alienware because I can. 

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Can you boot in safe mode? If not, your GPU could be gone.

Also, try booting from your CPU's graphics processor to eliminate or confirm issued with your GTX 645.

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Can you boot in safe mode? If not, your GPU could be gone.

Also, try booting from your CPU's graphics processor to eliminate or confirm issued with your GTX 645.

Already did that, GPU is fine, could not boot from CPU's GPU and GTX645 worked in another computer. Was able to boot into a linux USB without problems but windows 7 and windows vista will not boot, even from a disc.

No safe mode :/

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I am back up and running. There was some seriously deep file corruption to the point I couldn't even boot from another windows disc. Reformatting the partitions to remove ALL the old windows files fixed my issue with the installer not accepting input. Also, while I was testing discs and memories I found out that Alienware installed my case and CPU fans wrong. I had 2 outgoing fans and my CPU fan is in an encloser that forces air out of the case so I had really stagnant air inside the case. reversed the CPU fan and one of the case fans so now I am running at a positive air pressure with significantly more air flow and my core temps are 4-6 degrees lower.

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