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Mar 3rd, 2008
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Re: Return of the Boot Problems!!!

Have you tried another power supply? Very well could the cause.
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Re: Return of the Boot Problems!!!

Even though my fans and lights go on, that could still be the problem? Thanks.

And now my main problem is that it won't boot into the Vista partition. It loads the splash-screen (loading bar) of Vista and then goes to a black screen. Any help is GREATLY appreciated! Thanks!
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Re: Return of the Boot Problems!!!

Just to make sure,have you tested the memory and hard drives?try using memtest for the ram and seagtes hdd tester! let us know what you find!
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Got a fail on the SMART test but a pass on everything else <_< Thanks Any idea what that means?
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SMART test failure means HDD is failing. I've never seen SMART return a "false positive" failure message.
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