Restart and BSOD

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I have a personal computer with Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit.

It has happened twice now that after a restart of the computer I get a BSOD with varius errors?
But if I run chkdsk scan and fix the disk it boots normally.

What can this be?
This is a Segate disk...
 
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Please check the intergalactic phasing unit. The xeon crystals might expired.

If you can't find this with your PC's lid off, then I suggest you contact you r friendly, local, professional, technician.
 
Want to be

I have bean working as a computer repair tech for three years now with my day job as a network administrator.

Until now I have not bean taking my computer repair seriously, its just bean easy extra cash (reinstall Windows).
But now there is a recession and my day job is taking a dive and I am interested in learning the trade...

I guess its because English is not my primary language that you are flaming me, or are you just arrogant?

Classify me as "want to be"
 
Cue said:
I have bean working as a computer repair tech for three years now with my day job as a network administrator.

Until now I have not bean taking my computer repair seriously, its just bean easy extra cash (reinstall Windows).
But now there is a recession and my day job is taking a dive and I am interested in learning the trade...

I guess its because English is not my primary language that you are flaming me, or are you just arrogant?

Classify me as "want to be"
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Hi, Cue

The trick of mastering this trade is to do as much research as you can yourself and only ask when you have something you can't work out on your own, we aill aillingly help you, maybe you should get some books and read up all you can, and maybe get a job in a local pc tech store.

and about the harddrive, just like i wrote in the my previous post i think ita dying.

you should forgive and understand why the others flamed you they are getting very tired of this forum becoming a place for end users.

ABe
 
Cue said:
I guess its because English is not my primary language that you are flaming me, or are you just arrogant?

Classify me as "want to be"
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It's neither of those things. It's because the question you posed is not one that a qualified tech would post. There are a myriad of HDD tools to verify and diagnose a failing drive. Since you've already run chkdsk several times and repaired errors on each scan, the most logical conclusion is a failing drive. Back up as much data as you can, and replace the drive. From your op, I would say you need to start out training under an experienced tech before you go after your own business. Just a thought. Welcome to the forum's, though. We have wannabes (want to be) here. Just get used to the flaming if this is your level of experience for now.
 
We do help each other here. The problem is that if you are getting just error it makes it seem like just came here for help sinc you did not say what type of errors and what steps you have taken yourself to resolve the issue. We help each other on computer issues, business issues etc.

It is difficult to say if chkdsk will fix any issues. First we would have to know what the BSOD errors say. You have to look in the event log to see if any of the errors show up.

Also looking at the dump file created by the crash which would be saved in windows\memorydump (dont quote me on the extact path). You have to install the windows debugger to see what the logs say. I taught myself to read basic information. Usually BSOD is cause by a drivers. Troubleshooting steps would say, hhhmmm was anything installed resently? Any microsoft updates? etc.

We help each other but I am willing to bet that anyone who posts here who have been a member for some time and they take those basic steps or more before posting.

Hopefully I gave you enough to help you start your troubleshooting. By the way, you said you are/were a network administrator. The first thing those guys do is look at logs (yup like event logs), have you look at logs of the computer?
 
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I did not put much work into my question.
I expected to get replays, but not flaming.
Then again I did not know this is a technician only forum.

I have run "Hard Disk Sentinel" on my computer for a long time now. The disk health is 100%, no errors reported.

I too would like to blame the disk. And if this was a customers computer I would have changed the hard disk.

But I trust the program, I guess.
This error mis-writes MBR or FAT, so a simple chkdsk scan can fix it.
 
Thank you for your well wishes AdvancedComputerGroupInc.
I am, as of now not starting a computer repair shop. Until I get experience this is simply my evening and weekend job.

There are no computer repair shops here i can learn from.
This is urban Iceland you know :)

And I must disagree that this is simple, if the computer crazed every time or often then this would be simple to diagnose.
However this has happened twice during the last 60 restarts or so.

You should read this article, it is quite right.
http://www.technibble.com/the-issue-is-not-always-what-it-seems-my-humbling-experience/
 
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Cue said:
I have run "Hard Disk Sentinel" on my computer for a long time now. The disk health is 100%, no errors reported.
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You need to run a S.M.A.R.T. viewer on the drive, preferably with it plugged into another machine as a non boot disk, and see what the results are. Never just trust a HDD diagnostic program. You need to see how many hours are on the drive, any bad sectors, head errors, etc. Hard drives have a failure rate of 100%. It may take 10 years or 6 months, but they will fail eventually. If the drive is questionable, replace it. BSOD's are usually caused by hardware and memory issues, but a bad HDD can cause them too. Try to get the BSOD code, and google it to see if you can find the answer. Hope this helps.
 
Thank you for your replay.
Hard Disk Sentinel is a SMART monitor and analyzer.

I have also mounted the disk in my "fix-er" computer that also has that program installed. No problems reported.

http://www.hdsentinel.com/features.php

I have 8GBs of memory installed.
But the computer is as stable as a Microsoft product can be.
 
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