MASSIVE PC CRASH ISSUE

Hey guys, strangest thing happened today. I wake up come to my computer and its just frozen on some random screen...something part of boot cycle. I left it on during the night to download a few things. It dident download any which means it happened within 1hr30min after I left...I set it to start a little later....

But anyway when I restarted it it goes through the boot and then when it is ment to come to my boot menu to chose between ubuntu, mint, windows7 I just get a dash like this - then it goes screen goes darker and says no signal detected. Then it just restarts and repeats. At that point I was freaking out and still am. What I did next was I put my windows7 disc in and checked to see if it works. It did. I tried running repair. It dident seem to do anything...so I went back and chose memory diagnosis. Then restarted THEN I got my boot menu after I removed cd. I chose windows7....it then ran into the whole memory diagnosis and it ran for a while till I felt it was taking too long so I just quit it...then all of a suddon windows loaded up...now it is all running fine..

Problem is I don't know what turned my computer off and if it will happen again i'm too scared now to restart my pc.

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asked Jul 14 '10 at 17:18

pisoj
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NEW DEVELOPMENT IT WOULD SEEM ONE MY HARD DRIVES MAY BE CORRUPTED OR SOMETHING I went to play some music...and it wouldent find any of it...so I check the hard drive and all I have is NTFS new volume...dosent say size or anything...I really hope it isent corrupt...600gb of data on there. >_<

(Jul 14 '10 at 17:57) pisoj

I did a restart. The drive is now working =/ and I did not have the issue I had before where it does a stupid boot cycle thing

(Jul 14 '10 at 18:01) pisoj

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I've seen stranger things happen, you probably shouldn't worry about it, not as long as everything is working right now.

answered Jul 14 '10 at 17:22

Paddis
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oh I tried restarting it many many times. while it was going on even turning off for a bit....and I don't know if it is working right now....because I havent turned off to check.

(Jul 14 '10 at 17:24) pisoj

Start running scans with your antivirus. Also, go to the command prompt and type "sfc /scannow" without quotes. Do a defrag and a check disk to make sure everything is working properly. Chances are your hard drive may be failing.

answered Jul 14 '10 at 17:25

Josh_M
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I use a solid state...defrag would be pointless.

(Jul 14 '10 at 17:26) pisoj

Sorry, it wasn't in the original post and SSD's aren't common yet.

(Jul 14 '10 at 17:28) Josh_M

sorry bout that >_< seemed rude there. I am running the sfc scan. I checked my other discs 0-2% fragmentation for all 8 of them.

I was thinking something had to be wrong with my ssd or something I just don't know. waiting for sfc to finish

(Jul 14 '10 at 17:30) pisoj

A hard drive failure causing the message "No signal detected" at boot, Josh? I don't think so...

(Jul 14 '10 at 17:30) Seb

Yeah, seems pretty silly to me too after re-reading it.

(Jul 14 '10 at 17:31) Josh_M

the scan finished...it said I have some corrupt files. But it was unable to fix some of them...Then it gave me a directory for a long log....don't know what to make of it really its HUGE!

(Jul 14 '10 at 17:33) pisoj

Did you have your Windows 7 disc in the drive when you ran it?

(Jul 14 '10 at 17:35) Josh_M

oh, no. Should I have it in?

(Jul 14 '10 at 17:37) pisoj

I think there is something with the hard drive...my 2 lights on my computer are just solid. I am quite sure they normally are blinking and what not.

(Jul 14 '10 at 17:38) pisoj

Yes, the disc does need to be in to fix the errors.

(Jul 15 '10 at 06:43) Josh_M

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I agree with many of the posters that you should run the diagnostics/scans recommended; further I suggest that you boot your PC into Safe Mode and run as many of the scans/diagnostics as possible and disconnet from the Internet temporarily while you run the scans.

answered Jul 15 '10 at 10:00

computingNcatonsville
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I've seen something like this in the past. My clients computers had been compromised, and had been taken over remotely. P2P File Sharing sites that I will not mention by name, were the points of entry.

I'd check your firewall logs, and check for anything suspicious. Pay close attention to the time period of the crash. An intentional crash is a way to force a reboot, to complete the install of whatever.

I could be wrong, but check =0p...

answered Jul 14 '10 at 17:44

r0bErT4u
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I don't run any P2P programs. Not even torrents. How do I check firewall logs?

(Jul 14 '10 at 17:44) pisoj

Do you have a wireless router/firewall? One of the logs are stored there. I'm not sure if you have logs on your pc, but that's the other location.

(Jul 14 '10 at 17:47) r0bErT4u

I do but I see no way of anyone getting into it lol its password is ridiculously long, but i'll have a look

(Jul 14 '10 at 17:51) pisoj

You should definitely make a deep anti-virus scan. Also check those points:

Check if the screen resolution is not too big (can't support).
Reinstall the video card drivers.
Go to: Right click on Desktop/Properties/Settings (tab)/Advanced/Monitor (tab)/Monitor settings/ check the box "Hide modes that this monitor cannot display". Then select the highest screen refresh rate (in Hz) and apply these settings.

answered Jul 14 '10 at 17:50

Mihkel
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edited Jul 14 '10 at 17:52

Yeah I have a good video cards and all. 5850x2. Updated drivers but I will do that hide modes that make monitor cannot display thing.

(Jul 14 '10 at 17:52) pisoj

What do you mean? That just hides the modes that the monitor CANNOT display. Do you say if you check the box there's no options?

(Jul 14 '10 at 18:32) Mihkel

0	Hard Drives Crashed after plugging it to my system - Help isolating the problem? Sherman Unkefer answered Jan 21 '11 at 10:40 Sherman Unkefer 0●1 edited Jan 21 '11 at 16:51 TheTechDude 17.0k●40●94●300

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