Preparation for Crash

jph1589 · December 24th, 2006

I thought I'd ask for some ideas about something that happened last night to my son's computer. He has Sony Vaio desktop that is about 5 years old now. It has been well taken care of over the years. The model is PCV-RS430G. It is an Asus proprietary motherboard, Intel 2.8 HT 478, WD 120gb, Maxtor 100gb(added), 2-sony optical drives, memory card readers, gigapocket tv tuner/capture card, Ati 1600pro agp8x (upgraded recently).

Everything was going along swimmingly, until last night he was uploading a zip file of a podcast he did and the machine turned off. When he turned it back on, it couldn't see the hard drive and said to mount a bootable drive and restart, over and over. He tried removing power from the power supply and trying again and same thing. I wasn't home at the time and came home to a pretty frantic 14 year old... LOL.

So I started it up, hit F2 into the bios and saw it didn't have the hard drive in the boot order anymore. The drives were all showing in the bios setup screen but the boot order had changed. I put the WD hard drive back into the boot order and everything was fine. It booted normally and showed no signs of problems at all. I went into the windows event logs and checked them all and found nothing. I have the setting already selected so that it would blue screen on a fatal error instead of just restarting, so this wasn't something like that.

I have a gut feeling that this is an indication of some problem to come and that it will happen again. Do you think I am right? What might it be?

P.S. There have been no clock/battery problems. And no temperature related issues that I know of. The system fan is set to auto and it only speeds up when the system is warm and that happens rarely even with his gaming.

Thanks and Merry Christmas to all!!

wtcnbrwndo4u · December 24th, 2006

I don't think you should worry too much bro. I'm not sure why it would jump out of the boot sequence, but as long as it works for now, I wouldn't worry too much. I don't think that's a sign for drive failure.

Merry Christmas!

jph1589 · December 24th, 2006

I was thinking again on this. Maybe an intermitant cable failure would cause that. That could cause this.

Edit.....I just took the cover off to check the cables. At least it wasn't a loose cable.

December 24th, 2006	#1
jph1589 Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 367	Preparation for Crash I thought I'd ask for some ideas about something that happened last night to my son's computer. He has Sony Vaio desktop that is about 5 years old now. It has been well taken care of over the years. The model is PCV-RS430G. It is an Asus proprietary motherboard, Intel 2.8 HT 478, WD 120gb, Maxtor 100gb(added), 2-sony optical drives, memory card readers, gigapocket tv tuner/capture card, Ati 1600pro agp8x (upgraded recently). Everything was going along swimmingly, until last night he was uploading a zip file of a podcast he did and the machine turned off. When he turned it back on, it couldn't see the hard drive and said to mount a bootable drive and restart, over and over. He tried removing power from the power supply and trying again and same thing. I wasn't home at the time and came home to a pretty frantic 14 year old... LOL. So I started it up, hit F2 into the bios and saw it didn't have the hard drive in the boot order anymore. The drives were all showing in the bios setup screen but the boot order had changed. I put the WD hard drive back into the boot order and everything was fine. It booted normally and showed no signs of problems at all. I went into the windows event logs and checked them all and found nothing. I have the setting already selected so that it would blue screen on a fatal error instead of just restarting, so this wasn't something like that. I have a gut feeling that this is an indication of some problem to come and that it will happen again. Do you think I am right? What might it be? P.S. There have been no clock/battery problems. And no temperature related issues that I know of. The system fan is set to auto and it only speeds up when the system is warm and that happens rarely even with his gaming. Thanks and Merry Christmas to all!! Commodore 64 overclocked into outerspace

December 24th, 2006	#2
wtcnbrwndo4u Resident Brownie Join Date: May 2006 Location: KS Posts: 2,188	Re: Preparation for Crash I don't think you should worry too much bro. I'm not sure why it would jump out of the boot sequence, but as long as it works for now, I wouldn't worry too much. I don't think that's a sign for drive failure. Merry Christmas! - Core 2 Quad Q6600 - DFI Infinity 975X - 4GB Corsair XMS2 w/ DHX DDR2-800 - 250GB Seagate 7200.10RPM + 160GB Hitachi 5400.4RPM - ATi Radeon X1900XT 256MB - Cooler Master Centurion 5 + OCZ StealthXStream 600W - Acer 19" P191W Monitor - Logitech Z-5500 Digital + Logitech MX Revolution - Vista Ultimate x64

December 24th, 2006	#3
jph1589 Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 367	Re: Preparation for Crash I was thinking again on this. Maybe an intermitant cable failure would cause that. That could cause this. Edit.....I just took the cover off to check the cables. At least it wasn't a loose cable. Commodore 64 overclocked into outerspace Last edited by jph1589; December 24th, 2006 at 09:19.

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