MY PC crash in Windows 7

lostsoul62

lostsoul62

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My computer just went out and left me with a message on a black screen saying “Reboot and Select Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a Key” So I put my Windows 7 disk in and it wants me to re-install or load the divers and I don’t know what drivers it wants. I hit F8 while re-booting and chose the disk that C was on and it put me back into Windows. So could I have a bad BIOS that switch hard drives on boot up?
 
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How old is this PC ? It sounds like your hard drive is going Bad..See if you can get into Safe mode and then run scandisk..
 
Sounds like either your hard drive has errors, and you need to run a disk check like Havoc said, or you need to repair startup with the Windows 7 install disc.
 
Definately sounds like you have hard drive issues. Either its failing or cable or sata port issues.
 
Maybe a BIOS problem

I went into my BIOS and the Drives got switch around so I put them back where the boot drive will be 1st and the data drive will be 2nd. I don't know how they got switch but it looks like a BIOS problem instead of a Hard Drive problem but don't know just my guess.
 
lostsoul62 said:
I went into my BIOS and the Drives got switch around so I put them back where the boot drive will be 1st and the data drive will be 2nd. I don't know how they got switch but it looks like a BIOS problem instead of a Hard Drive problem but don't know just my guess.
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So it boots fine now?
 
I have a Crucial SSD 64 Gig SATA 3 for my main drive, took my data drive off, The BOIS says my SSD C Drive is the first boot, after about 30 minutes of sitting in Windows 7 it crashes and I get the message that is in my first post. I have to turn off my computer and wait for about 10 seconds before I can reboot. By re-booting will only get it stuck on boot. I can't check my Crucial SSD drive because Crucial tech support told me they don't have software to do that like WD. Does anyone have any ideas what I can do?
 
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lucasbytegenius said:
Sounds like the Windows 7 bootloader is on the data drive, if this happens when the data drive is removed.
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No because if the boot loader was on the data drive the computer wouldn't boot at all but it boots OK, it just crashes so I put the power options to never because why would it cash about the same time my Power options kick in. Well I'll find out tomorrow

Every 30 minutes it re-boots but on the re-boot it sticks and I have to turn it off for 10 seconds and then it turns on oK. It's really dusty here in Phoenix so I'll blow it out but I think the Hard drive or the BOIS is damage but just don't know. I might throw a hard drive on the PC, load an OS and see if it's the HD or the Motherboard
 
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lostsoul62 said:
No because if the boot loader was on the data drive the computer wouldn't boot at all but it boots OK, it just crashes so I put the power options to never because why would it cash about the same time my Power options kick in. Well I'll find out tomorrow

Every 30 minutes it re-boots but on the re-boot it sticks and I have to turn it off for 10 seconds and then it turns on oK. It's really dusty here in Phoenix so I'll blow it out but I think the Hard drive or the BOIS is damage but just don't know. I might throw a hard drive on the PC, load an OS and see if it's the HD or the Motherboard
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Good idea. Just wondering, did you install Windows on that SSD or did you clone the old hard drive onto the SSD?
 
lucasbytegenius said:
Good idea. Just wondering, did you install Windows on that SSD or did you clone the old hard drive onto the SSD?
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It was a fresh install. What I did this morning was disconnect all USB's except my keyboard and mouse and again it crashed. I'm thinking the CPU might have gotten over heated because AMD is good for that. So now I put in a another hard drive that I zero out and I'm putting the OS on it and see if it crashes and if it does then it's got to be my BIOS, or CPU because I don't think RAM or the Video card will act like this.
 
lostsoul62 said:
It was a fresh install. What I did this morning was disconnect all USB's except my keyboard and mouse and again it crashed. I'm thinking the CPU might have gotten over heated because AMD is good for that. So now I put in a another hard drive that I zero out and I'm putting the OS on it and see if it crashes and if it does then it's got to be my BIOS, or CPU because I don't think RAM or the Video card will act like this.
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If it's the CPU overheating, it's most likely not the CPU itself's fault. It's your cooling methods. Check for dust in the heatsink and stuff.
 
it may be a good idea to run a free basic operating system and run some hardware checks through that os.
I suggest a version of linux, on a cd?you will have to use a spare computer to download and install.
After that run that os through the cd so it eliminates the hard drive SSD. Then if the crash continues to occur even through a different os you can eliminate some possibilities, such as the SSD failure.
if the os works on the other hand, then you can do some hardware checks through that os, Linux is good for this :)
try that out :) may be able to focus the problem down.
 
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