hey guys I'm having problems with booting up my pc after the last windows 7 update.
It was last working on sunday night and when I booted it up last night, the problem started.
Normally it goes to BIOS then boots up windows, but now it goes to something called ASUS Express Gate, then a screen that tells me what my mother board is and asking me to "press DEL for set up or press TAB for BIOS end message.." If I don't do anything, It starts Windows up normally then flashes a blue screen which goes by so quick I can't even see what it said, and then dies immediately restarting the whole process.
I even tried system restore or reverting back to the old windows version and they all fail and still does what it does with ASUS expressgate even with the original windows CD's help.
I'm hesitating to just reboot it and install a new version of windows as it will wipe out my files, and I'm also contemplating getting an SSD, or maybe bringing it to a shop, but before I do any of those:
1.) are there any other checks I can do to make sure it is not a hardware issue?
2.) Does this look like a motherboard issue or CPU issue?
3.) can you recommend a good shop in auckland ( preferrably out west or in the city) to take it to, I was thinking playtech but the only time i can get it there would be on Saturday?
4.) how much should I prepare to have something like this sorted?
My specs are as follows
CPU - i7-920@3.6GHz (it's old I know!)
RAM - 12GB ( 3X2 GB corsair dominator triple channel. 3x2gb kingston triple channel)
SSD - 250 GB samsung SSD &
HDD - 2 GB WD Caviar Greed
GFX - EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX780 ti sc
MB Asus P6T Deluxe V2
thanks heaps!