Restarting after "Starting Windows"

Jerochy · May 27, 2015

Alright grab your cornpops because you're in for a long story.

So I am big into scrapping metal and yesterday, while I was taking all my metal to the scrap yard, I saw someone was throwing out a computer. It took it, took it home to find out it was someone's old gaming set up. I got really excited because I noticed it had a 620w power supply, a motherboard with 2 slots for graphics cards, and a nvidia graphics card.

I did a little research to find the graphics card isn't the best (but I got this all for free so I can't complain). The only thing I did notice it didn't have was a hard drive. So, I started digging into one of my old computers I won at an auction for $32 dollars (HP Compaq 6000 pro pentium dual core, 4gb ram, 160g SATA hard drive, windows 7), and took its hard drive out to use on this computer.

At first, once everything was plugged in, everything would run, but no display. I was gonna switch the ram out with the ram HP, but for some reason, the ram in my HP wouldn't fit into the ram slots in this desktop. So I just put the old ram back in and BAM we got display.

After it all booted up, it suggested I do a system restore. I canceled it the first time as I had to go in 30 min and didn't think I had enough time, and all it did was went to the starting windows screen, and then restarted right after it and suggested another system restore. I did restore it that time and it did the same exact thing.

I feel like something isn't working correctly somewhere. Could it be the hard drive? The only thing I know was wrong with my little HP computer is that sometimes it would randomly become unresponsive, and you couldn't ctrl+alt+delete, shut down or anything. You literally had to hold in the button till it died. Is there an easy way to trouble shoot the individual parts on this computer I found? I feel the power supply, motherboard, graphics card, and ram are all good if they are showing a display, right? If anyone can shed any light at all on what the issue may be, that would help ALOT. It also has a core duo 2 quad core processor if that helps. THANK YOU GUYS!