Pc stopped working. Need help!

[Lusado]

My friend just recently got a monitor for his birthday. Today he connected it to the PC, and at first it didn't seem to work. Then when he finally got it working the PC instantly bluescreened after boot. Since that the screen has been working fine, but windows won't boot on his computer. Safe mode worked, so he tried restoring his computer, but the restoration failed. Twice. Some time later windows safe mode woudn't boot at all, but he can enter the UEFI. Any idea what the problem is and how to fix it? Is it a dying hard drive? Need help!

[orangecat]

Sounds like a bad hard drive. I can tell you right now I almost guarantee that entire Windows installation is corrupted, if safe mode won't work theres really not much you can do it would be allot easier just to reinstall Windows.

[intelCore]

1 minute ago, Kilobytez95 said:

Sounds like a bad hard drive. I can tell you right now I almost guarantee that entire Windows installation is corrupted, if safe mode won't work theres really not much you can do it would be allot easier just to reinstall Windows.

*on a working HDD

 

6 minutes ago, Lusado said:

My friend just recently got a monitor for his birthday. Today he connected it to the PC, and at first it didn't seem to work. Then when he finally got it working the PC instantly bluescreened after boot. Since that the screen has been working fine, but windows won't boot on his computer. Safe mode worked, so he tried restoring his computer, but the restoration failed. Twice. Some time later windows safe mode woudn't boot at all, but he can enter the UEFI. Any idea what the problem is and how to fix it? Is it a dying hard drive? Need help!

Get the HDD out of his PC and try it in another one if you can.

[orangecat]

1 minute ago, intelCore said:

*on a working HDD

Just because a HDD seems to be working doesn't mean it's not throwing errors all over without you knowing.

[intelCore]

1 minute ago, Kilobytez95 said:

Just because a HDD seems to be working doesn't mean it's not throwing errors all over without you knowing.

I meant working in the way of it being good to use with no errors. Not just the disks spinning.

[A Guy Eating Cereal]

16 minutes ago, Lusado said:

My friend just recently got a monitor for his birthday. Today he connected it to the PC, and at first it didn't seem to work. Then when he finally got it working the PC instantly bluescreened after boot. Since that the screen has been working fine, but windows won't boot on his computer. Safe mode worked, so he tried restoring his computer, but the restoration failed. Twice. Some time later windows safe mode woudn't boot at all, but he can enter the UEFI. Any idea what the problem is and how to fix it? Is it a dying hard drive? Need help!

If you have vessel watch tech quickies latest video!  might help!

I agree with whats said above, try a different HDD if you have one! Does it make any wierd noises when it spins?

[lowlyf]

Check the basics. Run a HDD repair utility like Spinrite. Run memtest86. Most likely its just a corrupt filesystem. Boot from a Linux live CD or any boot media of your choice and back up your data first. Then format (full format, it will help check for and mark bad sectors) the drive and reinstall Windows. Need to know what the specific errors are to be able to start  pointing fingers at hardware. If you get a successful boot check event viewer for errors, and run a sfc /scannow in CMD prompt as administrator.