intermittent fail to boot

Discussion in 'backup, imaging & disk mgmt' started by jima, Dec 5, 2023.

  1. TheRollbackFrog

    TheRollbackFrog Imaging Specialist

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    Yes, the BOOT menu can accommodate many, many items for selection... they're all done the same way.

    If you still have an issue after the BiOS battery change, feel free to remove your latest BOOT menu entry to see what happens.
     
  2. jima

    jima Registered Member

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    From Macriums' help section - I booted into the rescue media and did a "fix boot menu problems" . I see that it automatically removed my boot menu item for
    MR. I think I will leave it because I think I am going to go forward with Hasleo from here.
    We'll see what happens
    Thanks to everyone for your replies
     
  3. sdmod

    sdmod Shadow Defender Expert

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    I'd be interested in seeing how this turns out going forward.

     
  4. jima

    jima Registered Member

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    will update if it happens again.

    I found a very good deal for a used 220 watt low voltage power supply this computer uses on Ebay.

    So hardware wise all this computer has is a mother board, 4G stick of ram, DVD drive, and a sata hard drive.

    The hard drive is new (Crucial mx 500 SSD)
    (Amazing what that did to this 10 yr old AMD A6 computer)

    ram cleaned and re-seated and passed a ram test,

    CMOS batt replaced, (voltage seemed good),

    LVPS replaced

    boot menu repaired

    passed a system file check

    with memory and power supply, I got $60 dollars into it
     
    Last edited: Dec 8, 2023
  5. Brummelchen

    Brummelchen Registered Member

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    https://www.newegg.com/gateway-sx2185-ur21/p/N82E16883113257
    Looks like a SFF PS as HP inserts it in its SFF.
    beeping and not booting sound for me for a failing hdd, maybe its tickling that time (tick tick tick...)
    if you get it working use crystaldiskinfo to check vitality
    https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/
    if you use a hdd and a ssd then the PS probably can get overloaded, such PS are most common used at their limits. currently i read a request for such PS because it died of less cooling (dust).
     
  6. zapjb

    zapjb Registered Member

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    No way I'd buy a used PSU.
     
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