4th master hard disk error, press f1 to continue

[DxxS]

Hi, i had my PC running XP fine, no problems that im aware of. i partitioned the hdd and installed Windows 7 x64 on second partition and now every now and then the PC reboots and displays the error;

4th master hard disk error, press f1 to continue

any help would be great, let me know if anymore info is needed.

Thanks,

D.

 

[theog]

That is a BIOS error, check your PSU.

 

[zzz2496]

Smells like a failing HDD, start your backups...

zzz2496

Ps. Use "SpeedFan", check the disk's S.M.A.R.T status, see if it's indeed dying...

 

[DxxS]

thanks guys, i will check out SpeedFan.
Dont know if this is a vital piece of info i missed but i only have 3 HDD's in my machine?

 

[DxxS]

That is a BIOS error, check your PSU.

Could you advise what i should be checking in the bios please, if it helps i haven asus P5Q Pro Turbo.

 

[pedroliska]

DxxS, I'm getting the exact same error as you after going from Windows 7 32bit to 64bit. Did you figure out what was going on? Did you update a driver? maybe firmware? update your bios?

 

[DxxS]

Im not completely over the problem yet, it still does it every now and then but not nearly as often, to be honest im not sure what has caused the improvement, i ran the windows memory diagnostics which found no errors, done some basic maintenance(defrags, clean ups etc), i was having issues with werfault.exe which i have now disabled, also stopped many startup apps, the last two things seem to have made a fair contribution to system stability somehow. if it continues i will try updating bios, i dont really want to but may have to, will also try rebuilding at some point.

 

[pedroliska]

DxxS: After I wrote my original post 4 days ago, I went to the MSI website to see if there were any firmware or bios upgrades for my MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital motherboard.

There was a bios upgrade. I ran it and the system has not crashed since! My machine was crashing every 2 to 3 days so I just barely made it past that. I hope this really fixed it. If it crashes, I'll report back to you.

 

[DxxS]

Thanks, ill have a go at a bios update and see what happens.