Boot Disk Failure - Conclusion
12 years ago
Picked up my computer today.
Supposedly there is nothing wrong with it. It behaved well and survived all stress tests. Seriously, what the fuck.
Asked one guy what might be the cause of things and he pondered maybe a software issue. Backup up all the shit I didn't have on backup yet and then I guess I'll have to luck into purging the hard drive and install the OS again.
Supposedly there is nothing wrong with it. It behaved well and survived all stress tests. Seriously, what the fuck.
Asked one guy what might be the cause of things and he pondered maybe a software issue. Backup up all the shit I didn't have on backup yet and then I guess I'll have to luck into purging the hard drive and install the OS again.
What goes for the OS, I ran it through system checks and all that fun stuff and it keeps telling me it's all right. Which just keeps baffling me because something has to be off if the damn thing doesn't boot properly. I had issues with the thing before, with windows booting up but then insta-freezing or throwing me a blue screen and the machine flung a corrupt boot manager at me before, too. Now it refused to even boot window, however every time all results say that there should be no issues because everything works as intended.
It's also starting to get a rather expensive "nothing's wrong with your machine". Counting the three incidents I had, where all my knowledge of fixing things (including searching for help onlines ect) reached it's limits and I brought the thing in to get it checked, that's a total of over 300 bucks by now. Too much money for nobody finding anything wrong with the computer.
I am that close to throwing it out the window.
In the end, the solution I found was to clean out the interior of the case and components with canned air - spraying off all the dust that had built up. Apparently said dust was causing the issue for my computer, as it worked perfectly after cleaning its insides.