nitr8 Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Hi, I have a corsair HX520W. About half an hour ago I experienced a power spike (1 second blackout) in my house. The computer with above PSU was on at the time. Since then I am unable to boot into windows, it keeps on asking me to start normally, safe mode, and last known good config. After choosing any one of those after a few seconds of windows splash screen the computer reboots. Any help in figuring out and solving this problem would be appreciated. Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 10, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 10, 2009 I would reset your BIOS via the CLRTC jumper and test the system with one memory module at a time and see if you can get into the BIOS. If you can get into the BIOS then load setup defaults, save and exit and let us know if you still have the same problem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitr8 Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 I can get into the bios fine and at the moment it has been reset to defaults, just cannot get into windows. I'll give the clrtc jumper a try. I'm currently running memtest86+ which i noticed mentioned elsewhere to help rule out motherboard and ram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitr8 Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 I'm tempted to try to "repair" windows from the cd after the memtest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitr8 Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 I haven't got round to clrtc jumper yet, but the computer passed the memtest. I'm starting to suspect that my hard drive may be corrupted / damaged. At least c drive is affected, currently showing in recovery console as unknown, other partition appear fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitr8 Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 chkdsk /r appears to have fixed the problem for the time being. Time to start updating backups and looking for a ups. Out of interest, could my psu have been damaged by the spike? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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