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Take a good read through this tutorial by Jonathan King.
RAM - Test with Memtest86+
I'm back to watching.
Take a good read through this tutorial by Jonathan King.
RAM - Test with Memtest86+
I'm back to watching.
Sorry. My fault. I thought you'd said, "Look at this thread" so I searched for term after!
My misunderstanding.
I stripped the PSU down and looked for bad capacitors. None. Also, HP system has LED troubleshooting codes and it does not display any signs of issues. Issues shuts itself down and reports overheating via LED codes. Again, none are displayed.
I cannot find any suggested BIOS settings on HP website. I don't know if I should be running IDE, AHCI or RAID.
One thread I read probably on here was that if you set Sata Emulation type then install OS and change Sata Emulation that that can cause issues.
Have now reinstalled after using DISKPART to create one partition. I feel a lot more comfortable seeing bootmgr in the same partition as OS rather than in a System Reserved partition. The 100Mb partition is correct. I borrowed a working drive from my brother and that has 100Mb partition on.
Now for backup. How reliable is the Windows System Image option?
Hi,
Not very dependable most of us use free macrium reflect instead and turn system protection off but mostly because we also use ssd's = solid state drives and it stops some unnesesary writes for a feature that rarely works if you disconnect a dedicated system image drive from the system.
Saying goes a drive that is connected to the system is at risk just as much as the operating system's drive is :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQA7NlLvxg8
Oh my days!
Everything was going swimmingly after today's reinstall.
I've actually been working in it. It's been fine for the best part of the day. I knew it couldn't last.
I'll upload photo tomorrow.
I went away from the PC. 2nd time today and letter a program running. Came back. All looked fine. Decided to end process I was doing and save file. Go to save file. NO C DRIVE! Just not there in My Computer.
That's a very good idea Thrashzone.
I often forget where I put things even though I tend to be very thorough.
Think I am going to do one of the installs in Audit mode on a dummy drive then I can transfer it whenever I like.
I spent the day yesterday, after the PC crashed again on Sunday night and corrupted some files and perhaps registry, on a drive my brother lent to me. Ran 100% fine.
I even swapped the power supply from the known good workstation but, even now, I can't recall when I did that. I think I did it yesterday morning early on to see if that resolved the issue but got Bootmgr again.
I am going to do a spare drive today and see how that goes. Then once I am happy that it can survive a day without crashing I will out the original PSU back in and finalise my thoughts on it.
The HP PSU's have a green LED which can be seen through the rear fan. It was flickering from time to time on the one I used when I was having problems. HP advise that it should be changed.
I wonder if anyone knows a fix. It's not capacitors. They all look good.