Buliding PC, wont boot past bios!

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#1 Unforgottenalwa
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My friends pc only gets to blue bios screen then asks to save and restart and then it just goes back to the bios!

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My friends pc only gets to blue bios screen then asks to save and restart and then it just goes back to the bios!

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and the computer is detecting everthing!
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#3 Sp33chM4n
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What OS does it have? Have you tried booting with OS install CD? Also check the boot priority in bios.

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Set the boot configuration in bios to the optical drive first and have the windows cd in. restart and see if it wants to install.
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#6 Unforgottenalwa
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Set the boot configuration in bios to the optical drive first and have the windows cd in. restart and see if it wants to install.johnboy07
He came over to my house and is getting my DVD drive and hard Drive I think its his Hard drive in his old computer it stoped reading discs and it was not his DVD tray! Because it bought a hole new one and didnt help! Shoudl you reformate a harddrive? before you use it?