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windows 10 reinstall
« on: January 22, 2018, 11:34:27 AM »
My hard drive died in my homemade 5 year old desktop. So I gutted it went to frys and bought a asus board the matching amd processor 16 g of memory a 2 tb seagate hard drive and a new power supply.
I downloaded windows 10 on a flash drive and it installed fine. It asked for a password and I used the same one I always use. It made me type it twice to be sure. It wouldn't let me install avast so I turned it off and would get back to it later.

I restarted and it will not except my password. I tried every variation, capitals, no capitals, no password etc. So I want to just start over. How do I do this? I played with it for a long while and cant figure out how to delete windows and start over.

Also I worried that maybe I ended up with a bad processor as when I opened the box it had already been in satalled but decided to take the chance.

How do I proceed?  ???

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Re: windows 10 reinstall
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2018, 01:05:35 PM »
I'd return that CPU ASAP and demand an unopened replacement...

As to the Win 10 issue a quick phone call to MS support...Free will get you back up and running...tell them you had to replace the HDD.
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Re: windows 10 reinstall
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2018, 09:50:02 AM »
Thanks Patio for the help.
I took the cpu back and exchanged it for a brand new one. Now this is weird I have another problem. The computer will not start at all. I traded to my old power supply and the same thing. A couple of leds light on the board but that is it. I checked my wiring and everything is plugged in. What would cause this? Couldnt be the cpu again could it?

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« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2018, 09:54:18 AM »
Was thermal paste applied proper ? ?....4/6 pin CPU power connected ? ?
What else did you change when you did the swap ? ?
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« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2018, 11:57:21 AM »
Yes the paste was already on the heatsink so you just push it on to the cpu ans latch it down. All the wires are connected the only thing I saw was the hd led cable had came loose and I reconnected that but everything else looks fine.
I seem to have bad luck buying parts at Frys.

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Re: windows 10 reinstall
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2018, 01:45:24 PM »
are all the front panel cables connected to their right spots on the mobo header?
when you press the power button, is that when the lights come on or are they on as soon as the power cable is connected?
do you hear HDD noises and see fans spin when you try to turn it on?

maybe a screen shot could shed some light?

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« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2018, 08:42:34 AM »
Yes I made sure all the cables are connected in the right spots. The leds are on as soon as you hit power. One of them is at the cat 5 connection. When you try to start the system nothing happens at all. I am going to pull the board  and go back to frys and get a replacement. Not sure if I should get another cpu or not.

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Re: windows 10 reinstall
« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2018, 09:50:11 AM »
I thought you got a new CPU....
When you installed the MBoard did you remember the standoffs ? ?
Also is this a new or used PSU ? ?...make and model # ?

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