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Well guys after two entire weeks of playing around and experimenting I FINALLY Figured it out. It was the cpu and it was bad with or without the motherboard. I went on ebay and bought a new cpu (i3-2120) and I also bought a new motherboard and It seems to work fine so far. (My grandpa and I are running diagnosis) Thanks for ALL of your suggestions and answers this is a great community and I hope you all have a good day! Thanks!

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Hello everyone and please help me. I am currently at my grandparents house and their PC won't work for some reason. I know a decent amount of pc's and built my own. Its a dell Inspirion 660 (lol xD) and it won't post or something along that line. What its doing is when I press the power button it turns on just fine but then what it does Is it comes up with a loading bar thing. (whether I press del or not) After its done "loading" it goes instantly to this "DELL" Screen and stays there eternally. I think it could be a graphics problem because of the fuzzy pixels on top. I dont have any spare parts because I am away from home. I have some pics to show please any answers/suggestions would help. ;) Thanks. 

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Take a hardrive out of another system and try booting it up from that. 

 

In addition try to reset your bios if u feel its needed.

 

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It looks like a corrupted windows installation/migration. Take out the drive and try to get to the bios

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Look at the the number LEDs and see what they are. Look them up on the Googles. 

 

There are 1 2 3 4 led numbers in front of the case.. which ones are showing? They will be in an orange or green colour. 

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UPDATE: I cannot get to the BIOS even after I take the WD blue out and it does not get to bios. I currently do not have any spare HDDs laying around since I'm out of town. You have a point though it could be corrupted. Thanks for all the support keep it coming ;)

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That's the POST screen, not the WIndows loading screen.  Try taking the CMOS battery (should be a nickel-sized shiny thing) out before you do anything else, and see if it helps.  That will reset the BIOS and maybe it will shake loose whatever is corrupt.

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10 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

Look at the the number LEDs and see what they are. Look them up on the Googles. 

 

There are 1 2 3 4 led numbers in front of the case.. which ones are showing? They will be in an orange or green colour. 

So do you mean the Color of the light,  correct? It turns orange do a half a second then turns white

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2 minutes ago, Ringthane said:

That's the POST screen, not the WIndows loading screen.  Try taking the CMOS battery (should be a nickel-sized shiny thing) out before you do anything else, and see if it helps.  That will reset the BIOS and maybe it will shake loose whatever is corrupt.

Tried that but will try once again

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21 minutes ago, AdamBGames said:

It looks like a corrupted windows installation/migration. Take out the drive and try to get to the bios

Didn't work

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Just now, SweatyBooch420 said:

Didn't work

Hmm, strange, without actually being there its hard to diagnose the issue

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1 minute ago, AdamBGames said:

Hmm, strange, without actually being there its hard to diagnose the issue

Yeah is it possibility it could be a ram or video problem?  Do you know?

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Just now, SweatyBooch420 said:

Yeah is it possibility it could be a ram or video problem?  Do you know?

Also I took out the cpu and no pins were Bent etc. 

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Any cheap spare gpu to slap in? It could be failure in iGPU. (low chance. just a guess)

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1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

Any cheap spare gpu to slap in? It could be failure in iGPU. (low chance. just a guess)

Unfortunately no because I am out of town and my grandparents dont carry spare gpus sadly :(

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20 minutes ago, SweatyBooch420 said:

Yeah is it possibility it could be a ram or video problem?  Do you know?

I dont think its the GPU as it seems to show the Dell logo, it might be the ram

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Well guys after two entire weeks of playing around and experimenting I FINALLY Figured it out. It was the cpu and it was bad with or without the motherboard. I went on ebay and bought a new cpu (i3-2120) and I also bought a new motherboard and It seems to work fine so far. (My grandpa and I are running diagnosis) Thanks for ALL of your suggestions and answers this is a great community and I hope you all have a good day! Thanks!

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