Windows 8.1 Reinstall - Failure

[coopster]

Hey guys,

 

So recently i decided that i wanted to reinstall windows 8.1/ Factory reset. The process was very simple and consisted of clicking a few buttons in settings. So the computer tells me its is going to restart to contine. It begins to restart and then all of my monitors go to standby mode. I leave my PC for a few hours and when i return i am greeted with both monitors still in standby. I attempt to see if they will wake up - wiggle the mouse, left/right click, hit a few keys on the keyboard. Nothing worked so i left the PC to run for a few more hours and when i return there is still nothing. I have now powered the PC down and when i try to power it on again i am greeted with more black screens. What does this mean?

 

Thanks

Ben Cooper

 

specs:

 

Windows 8.1 64bit

intel i5 3330 @ 3.0 ghz

mobo taken from lenovo H520s

sapphire R9 270X

4GB Ram

 

any other specs/information needed just ask!

[JeffreyEagan]

You need a flash drive or a disk with the windows iso unpacked to it. Boot from that.

[coopster]

I can't boot to anything as when it powers on i only get a blank screen. - No bios

[JeffreyEagan]

I can't boot to anything as when it powers on i only get a blank screen. - No bios

...Are your monitors on the wrong input?

[coopster]

Nope, I have tried several monitors on several inputs including the onboard graphics without the gpu.

[JeffreyEagan]

What's your motherboard? Have you tried removing components and trying to start up the system?

[coopster]

My board is a Lenovo Cih61miV1.1 . It has been taken from a Lenovo H520s. i have tried removing the gpu - no success. Do you reccomend removing any other particular components?

[JeffreyEagan]

My board is a Lenovo Cih61miV1.1 . It has been taken from a Lenovo H520s. i have tried removing the gpu - no success. Do you reccomend removing any other particular components?

Try the hard drive(s). If not that, reseat the RAM/CPU, if not that, your board is dead.

[coopster]

I tried plugging the drive that contains my windows files on a linux PC and it came up with an error saying that it couldn't mount the drive because the drive was in an un-safe state due to windows still running. Does this mean the whole drive may be corrupt?

[JeffreyEagan]

I tried plugging the drive that contains my windows files on a linux PC and it came up with an error saying that it couldn't mount the drive because the drive was in an un-safe state due to windows still running. Does this mean the whole drive may be corrupt?

Yep. It's probably why your system can't POST.

[coopster]

The Error message was "Failed to mount "Windows8_OS"".

 

Error mounting /dev/sdb5 at /media/ben/Windows8_OS: Command-line

"mount -t "ntfs" -o"

"uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177"

"/dev/sdb5""/media/ben/Windows8_OS" exited with non-zero exit status 14 :The disk contains an unclean file system (0,0).

Metadata kept in windows cache, refused to mount.

Failed to mount "/dev/sdb5": Operation not permitted

The ntfs partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume read-only with the "ro" mount option.

[JeffreyEagan]

Yeah, the drive is corrupt, force format. Try starting your comupter without the hard drive in it.

[coopster]

Yeah i think my Board is dead as it wont POST without a hard drive either, i will keep trying thank for your help anyways!