URGENT: Need help? PC Takes 10min to boot up.

[Jonz0r]

Well i woke up this morning, i scanned for viruses and did a defrag. The defrag wasnt finished because i canceled it. Then when trying to install some drivers for my PC my disk drive wouldnt open..

I then rebooted and it shows the main boot screen then goes into a black screen where a little dot on the top left of my screen, the dot just flashes for about 10/15min. It normaly takes 5 seconds but for some reason its taking longer.

I normaly have 2 hard drives installed but since i installed a new PSU it only came with one sata connector. The current harddrive installed is the one with the OS on.

Whats wrong :/ help plz

 

[giant384]

the bios might still think that your other harddrive is connected also you should check for which piece of hardware boots first

 

[Glirk Dient]

Clear BIOS. There is a jumper on your mobo that you need to switch to do this. Look it up on how to clean bios/cmos. It is usually in the bottom right if the mobo is still in your case.

 

[Jonz0r]

Thanks for your help all... I tried everything. But after doing everything i decided to disconnect the power cable from my dvd rw the one which stoped work and everything is fine... Its the 2nd time my dvd r-w had died.. Is it because i use it to play games? :/:sniper:

 

[Ren.182]

Using the DVD drive to do anything shouldn't make it die. How old is it?

 

[Jonz0r]

Well this is the 2nd time it has died.

Its new since the otherone was replaced a couple of months ago.

 

[Glirk Dient]

Well this is the 2nd time it has died.

Its new since the otherone was replaced a couple of months ago.

Is the ribbon cable keyed? If not you may be plugging that in backwards or your PSU might not be very stable/under powered and is causing it to die.

 

[Sieg]

Lock a pistol to your moniter and....

Yell : " If you don't hurry up, I'm blowing holes in you "