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I transported my pc and now it wont turn on properly, it just

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I transported my pc and now it wont turn on properly, it just gets stuck on a black screen with a blinking underscore. What do?
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Install Gentoo
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>>60040727
Something probably jostled loose. Unplug everything, disconnect all parts and reseat them.
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>>60040727
Got any experience installing computer hardware i.e. hdd?
If so check how your boot drive is doing physically.

Are you sure you don't get anything before your blinking underscore i.e. the menu that's there for a couple seconds that you can press a button to get into the bios of your motherboard?
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>>60040727
unplug the cables that go into the 4 x 6 x 1 rectangular prism and plug them back in
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>>60040831
I get a motherboard logo, and then the blinking meme. I have no experience, my cousin installed the pc. But now i moved countries and the pc wont start right.

>>60040861
Can you find a pic of it? Also my insides.
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Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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>>60040992
You see the yellow cable that's unplugged that should probably be plugged in.

Look for what it's connected too, if it's not already connected to the power supply plug it in.
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>>60040727
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>>60040992
Oh and when that motherboard logo comes up you should be able to press a key at that moment to access the bios.

You might need to use this later, if plugging in that cable doesn't work.
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>>60041110
I have no clue where to plug in that cable... im so noob
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>>60041156
Doesnt look like it has a destination. I remember my cousin leaving some cables unplugged..
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If it's getting through bios boot, video card is working. Probably hard drive disconnected that it's trying to boot from after that. Check the hard drive power and data cables.
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>>60041184
Oh sorry, your power supply is a non modular one, yes that is a unused cable.

It sounds like a drive issue overall so I suggest checking the cabling around the drives.

Otherwise you'll need to go into your bios and see if the drives are detected.
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>>60041265
Forget that image it's irrelevent
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Which one is it?
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Think im in bois! What am i doing? Where do i check the hds?
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>>60041354
turn your camera the other way up dude. Also if you hit F11 on that screen, it will give you a list of all the hard disks your computer detects.
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>>60041354
Go to the H/W monitor so I can see what your motherboard can see i.e. HDD, graphics card..
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>>60041383
This method is better, do this.
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>>60041383
F11 and nothing happens... heres my h/w screen
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>>60041453
I swear to god this phone...
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>>60041453
Ah okay that was less than I expected, when anon said F11 he meant on the first screen, the one you pressed DEL or F2 on to get to the bios.
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>>60041326
>>60041453
F11 on first screen
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>>60041453
This.
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Here
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>>60040727
Will it boot from a flash drive? If it does, then check the hard drive connection.
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>>60041556
How can i do check. Im very bad at pc
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>>60041541
ok, now unplug the hard disk and reboot back into this screen. If the hard disk is working, one of those will disappear.
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>>60041541
Ah ok we now can see which drives are connected.

ocz-vertex4 = likley your boot drive, i suggest clicking it.

ST3500418AS = your main file storage most likely.

Ignore the other that is a disk reader.
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>>60041600
Right, but my windows is on an ssd? Does that matter? Should i unplug the ssd rather?
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>>60041354
>australian anon troubleshoots his PC
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>>60041625
yes, unplug that one then, or try as >>60041622 says
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>>60041625
troll
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>>60041622
Right, pressed the ocz, whixh is my flash drive, booted like usual, now on my desktop, but now this appeared. Also, will i have to boot my pc through bios from now on? Thats not cool
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>>60041658
Dude, im just really bad at this stuff...
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>>60041674
You might, there's only one way to check.
If so then you'll likely have to set it as the boot drive in the bios again.

At least it boots though.
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Restared pc, back at the blinking underscore. But i can get it to work by booting from bios. What should i do now?
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>>60041727
This is the first one,
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>>60041729
you need to set the default boot drive to your SSD, go back into bios
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>>60041761
Second. I dont even have an option tocselect my ocz... it went from working fine to this crap after a bus ride...
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>>60041788
look in hard drive BBS properties
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>>60041800
Ok think i set it up. Booted fine. Why would this happen tho? Is it cuz the flash got plugged out during the ride, but i started my pc up like usual, so the required drive went missing and the options got fucked? Also thank you a whole bunch guys! Works!
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>>60041878
hooray for /g/ !
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>>60041878
It could be that your bios battery was dislodged temporary and hence all the bios settings were wiped.
Bios data is volatile you see so it needs constant power to be sustained.

No problem, glad your systems back to normal again.
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>>60041878
whatever happens it seems your bios settings got reset, could have been caused by anything. Could be that your CMOS battery became dislodged or discharged and wiped your bios settings.
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Thanks once again!
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>>60040727
Does it show a BIOS boot screen (assuming it did before you moved it)?
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>>60041326
f2
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>>60041354
now we know youre trolling
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