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Hey guys,
A rather alarming boot problem with my rig has developed over the past few days, and I am wondering whether it is my motherboard or boot drive (my Velociraptor). The issues I am now having are as follows:
1) The system has failed to POST twice, and each time it fails I can hear a weird sounding noise coming from my boot drive, almost as if the hard drive electronics are failing. I end up having to power down the system using my PSU's power switch, since all that ends up happening is a blank screen and boot drive noise. Yet, all fans power up, all motherboard LED's show up as normal, and my graphics card is getting power just fine. This has started happening randomly.
2) When I try to boot up again, my computer ends up POSTing as normal, but instead of booting into Windows 7 as it usually does, it displays this wonderful looking error message:
*Warning: System BOOT Fail*
Your system last boot fail or POST interrupted
Please enter setup to load default and reboot again.
F1 to continue
DEL to enter Setup
When I see this message, I can press F1 and boot into Windows normally. I have ran chkdsk on my boot drive, which showed no errors in the file system and zero bad sectors on the disk. The system runs perfectly fine after this point.
I do use my system basically every day, and I have owned my motherboard for a good four years. What should my next course of action be if this happens again?
Cheers,
CodeMonkey
A rather alarming boot problem with my rig has developed over the past few days, and I am wondering whether it is my motherboard or boot drive (my Velociraptor). The issues I am now having are as follows:
1) The system has failed to POST twice, and each time it fails I can hear a weird sounding noise coming from my boot drive, almost as if the hard drive electronics are failing. I end up having to power down the system using my PSU's power switch, since all that ends up happening is a blank screen and boot drive noise. Yet, all fans power up, all motherboard LED's show up as normal, and my graphics card is getting power just fine. This has started happening randomly.
2) When I try to boot up again, my computer ends up POSTing as normal, but instead of booting into Windows 7 as it usually does, it displays this wonderful looking error message:
*Warning: System BOOT Fail*
Your system last boot fail or POST interrupted
Please enter setup to load default and reboot again.
F1 to continue
DEL to enter Setup
When I see this message, I can press F1 and boot into Windows normally. I have ran chkdsk on my boot drive, which showed no errors in the file system and zero bad sectors on the disk. The system runs perfectly fine after this point.
I do use my system basically every day, and I have owned my motherboard for a good four years. What should my next course of action be if this happens again?
Cheers,
CodeMonkey