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pc wont boot to windows

Jan 2, 2015 3:50PM PST

Hello and happy new yeat
a month ago my psu overheated and jow the psu is replaced my pc wont boot into windows instead it boots to startup repair and freezes i tries to install windows 7 and it installed it in about 8 hours till completing windows indtallion and froze the computer is super slow as well

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sounds like it wasn't the PSU
Jan 2, 2015 5:09PM PST

to begin with. Time to look elsewhere. Give some stats on the computer, age, model, manufacture.

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thans for replaying
Jan 2, 2015 5:58PM PST

It was the power supply overheat that cause my pc to stop working it didn't turn on at all now that i replaced the psu it works but wont boot to windows my pc age is 4 years i got a gtx570 video card motherboard sabertooth a intel i5 8 gigs of ram is that good? That's the only information i know as of right now on my specs

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If it has onboard video
Jan 2, 2015 6:16PM PST

pull the video card out and see if it will run from the onboard video instead. If so, then maybe the video card is drawing too much power from the new PSU. Your new PSU should have been higher rated than the first one which died.

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thanka for the help you provided i fixed it
Jan 2, 2015 9:45PM PST

The hardrive was the problem