LONG STORY (Feel free to skip to the short version)
A few months ago, my girlfriends laptop broke. She was interested in buying a new desk top to replace it, and had expressed interest in some day building her own PC. A friend of ours essentially said, "Why wait until some day? I can help you develop a build and assemble it with you, easy as cake!"
This of course was not the case. He did help with the build, and he did help assemble it, but there is the pesky problem of... it doesn't work. After nearly two thousand dollars, he was now giving her a list of diagnostic equipment she should buy, and ducked out of the situation. Nearly three months later my girlfriend is heartbroken and betrayed, with the worlds most expensive dust collector/cat tree.
SHORT STORY
The computer starts up, the fans begin spinning, we get to the point that the windows instillation would be begin, and it then begins a reset loop.
Any ideas what the problem may be?
The concern of bringing it to a repair shop is in the past we've brought a computer in to be repaired, been told that a part was broken (may or may not have been, I'm not a techy, I don't know ****), and the part has been replaced with a lesser, cheaper part, and the better, expensive part has just been pocketed, with an expensive (or what I think to be expensive) build like my girlfriends this is an even bigger fear.
A few months ago, my girlfriends laptop broke. She was interested in buying a new desk top to replace it, and had expressed interest in some day building her own PC. A friend of ours essentially said, "Why wait until some day? I can help you develop a build and assemble it with you, easy as cake!"
This of course was not the case. He did help with the build, and he did help assemble it, but there is the pesky problem of... it doesn't work. After nearly two thousand dollars, he was now giving her a list of diagnostic equipment she should buy, and ducked out of the situation. Nearly three months later my girlfriend is heartbroken and betrayed, with the worlds most expensive dust collector/cat tree.
SHORT STORY
The computer starts up, the fans begin spinning, we get to the point that the windows instillation would be begin, and it then begins a reset loop.
Any ideas what the problem may be?
The concern of bringing it to a repair shop is in the past we've brought a computer in to be repaired, been told that a part was broken (may or may not have been, I'm not a techy, I don't know ****), and the part has been replaced with a lesser, cheaper part, and the better, expensive part has just been pocketed, with an expensive (or what I think to be expensive) build like my girlfriends this is an even bigger fear.
