my pc will not boot into my harddrive

[tmorga67]

I have an i7 920 with a Dell XPS 435mt motherboard and a 1 terabyte western digital green drive along with a gtx 1060 3gb however, whenever i turn it on it starts up normal then the screen goes black and blinks ( _ ) in the top left corner 

[lonely_sata_cable]

Thats it? Does it give a series of beeps or lights that show up on the tower?

[tmorga67]

nope

[Beef Boss]

What OS are you booting? Was this an install from a CD or legal download of the OS? You might have to turn on legacy boot or turn off secure boot.

[tmorga67]

it is windows 10 (legal)

[tmorga67]

how do you turn on legacy boot/turn off secure boot

[Beef Boss]

2 minutes ago, tmorga67 said:

it is windows 10 (legal)

Quote us to let us know you reply, please. @lonely_sata_cable 

But I would check that all cables and everything is connected. RAM and the like usually give their own errors before boot. You'd need to boot into the boot loader. You can usually access it by f12 or f10 when booting the system up

[tmorga67]

ram issue?

[tmorga67]

it notices all of my ram in bios

[tmorga67]

i can get to the bios fine, after the xps 435mt screen flashes the black screen starts

[tmorga67]

i can't boot into usb i get the same issue

[tmorga67]

i dont have another pc and i do have the right boot order

[tmorga67]

yep, and yep

[Johntheawesomeguy]

what did you change in this computer, did you swap ram, add a hard drive?

[tmorga67]

I swapped 2 of the ram sticks and hard drive case video card ext.

[Bcat00]

Just now, tmorga67 said:

I swapped 2 of the ram sticks and hard drive case video card ext.

So you swapped your hard drive with a new one.

Did you install windows on the new hard drive?

[Johntheawesomeguy]

1 minute ago, tmorga67 said:

I swapped 2 of the ram sticks and hard drive case video card ext.

I would test a different drive by unplugging that one completely, it might be dead and even if you plugged a different device into it, it might still try to boot into the HDD

[tmorga67]

yep

[tmorga67]

i tried 3 different hard drives

[tmorga67]

i changed my my ram and changed it back it did not fix it

[tmorga67]

I got it to finally boot from USB fingers crossed my hard drive works.