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Disk boot failure
Ok, this is kind of weird... I'm not sure why this has happened, because nothing was wrong before, but here's a short explaination of how it happened... I was playing Counter-strike: Source (some of you may have heard of it ), and things were fine. About 20 minutes into it, my system locked up. The sound repeated in a garbled, scrathy loops, and nothing responded for a full minute, leaving me with nothing to do but press the restart button on my desktop. Upon the next boot, the system could not test my memory; It started reading it slowly, instead of immediately. After reading the GB of RAM, it repeated, doing the same thing. It did that 3 times, then moved on to reading the drives. It couldn't even read the primary master drive, let alone the slave drives, and then moved onto the next screen, "Verifying DMI Pool Data," where after 5 seconds of that, it says "Disk Boot Failure, Inster System Disk and Press Enter." That's my story, sad but true. I tried to express what happened in detail. I hadn't uninstalled anything (That I know of... My girlfriend was the last one to use the computer), and the only thing I did was play CS:S. Can anyone give me any help? -- Stimpeh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stimpeh's Profile: http://extremetechsupport.com/forum/...tml?userid=693 View this thread: http://extremetechsupport.com/forum/...phtml?t=138777 |
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Disk boot failure
Stimpeh wrote:
Ok, this is kind of weird... I'm not sure why this has happened, because nothing was wrong before, but here's a short explaination of how it happened... I was playing Counter-strike: Source (some of you may have heard of it ), and things were fine. About 20 minutes into it, my system locked up. The sound repeated in a garbled, scrathy loops, and nothing responded for a full minute, leaving me with nothing to do but press the restart button on my desktop. Upon the next boot, the system could not test my memory; It started reading it slowly, instead of immediately. After reading the GB of RAM, it repeated, doing the same thing. It did that 3 times, then moved on to reading the drives. It couldn't even read the primary master drive, let alone the slave drives, and then moved onto the next screen, "Verifying DMI Pool Data," where after 5 seconds of that, it says "Disk Boot Failure, Inster System Disk and Press Enter." That's my story, sad but true. I tried to express what happened in detail. I hadn't uninstalled anything (That I know of... My girlfriend was the last one to use the computer), and the only thing I did was play CS:S. Can anyone give me any help? Could be lots of different possible problems, but I would check the cpu fan to be sure it is working - the cpu may be fried. You could try putting a DOS boot disk in and see if it'll boot to that - if it does, then it's probably the hard drive. Or, it could have been a power surge or power supply problem. Check the power supply - sometimes the fan fails on that and you need to replace the power supply. If it is the power supply, hopefully nothing else got toasted. Or, it could be a BIOS problem - go in and have it re-detect the hard drive. Whatever the problem, I recommend buying a UPS once you've fixed it. -- The reader should exercise normal caution and backup the Registry and data files regularly, and especially before making any changes to their PC, as well as performing regular virus and spyware scans. I am not liable for problems or mishaps that occur from the reader using advice posted here. No warranty, express or implied, is given with the posting of this message. |
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