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Disk Boot Failure after blue screen
Hi,
Over summer I built myself a new PC with the following spec:
i7 2600K 3.4GHz
16GB DDR3G-Skill RAM
HIS HD6950 2GB GPU
OCZ 120GB Vertex 3 SSD
Gigabyte Z68A MOBO
I also have 2 old hard drives acting as general storage and for programs that I don't want on the SSD.
However, probably within a few days of having set everything up (which all started fine), I started to have a problem.
Sporadically, the computer will crash, reboot and then display a disk boot failure error. Initially I panicked and tried to reboot from the Windows CD etc. For some reason I had a fiddle inside, particularly with the SATA connection to the SSD. When I rebooted, it worked fine.
This has been going on now for months.
I've rung ebuyer and said to them, but they have no idea what the problem is. I'm hesitant to send it back to be replaced under warranty due to the disruption it will inevitably cause (I'm a secondary school teacher and so rely on having my computer).
I hadn't actually had a problem for a few weeks until about a week ago. Now it blue screens and then dies.
I did get a message saying, upon reboot one time that the CPU had been overclocked (which it has, but only to 3.9GHz). Another reboot saw this message go away...
Does anyone have any ideas as to what this could be?
It's perhaps also worth mentioning that sometimes the HDDs seem to go to 'sleep' i.e. if I'm using iTunes, and I click to play a song, there will be a lag. This can happen after having not used the computer for a while, but it can also happen in the middle of using it.
I've run various disc check programs, all of which have said that all the drives are healthy.