I have a home built system (specs to be posted below) and lately it has been acting strangely.
A few months ago, when I was watching Youtube videos or occasionally playing video games online, the computer would completely lock up. It would not respond to Alt+F4, Ctrl+Alt+Del, or any other input but would always come back and work normally after approximately 30 seconds to a minute. Most of the time there was no explanation given, but occasionally, and with no regularity it say that the nVidia video drivers had recovered from having crashed or experienced some fatal error. No matter what, it would always come back and work fine.
For the first time ever 4 days ago, Windows failed to start. I have disabled the GUI Boot so I usually get a black screen anyway upon start up, but instead of loading into Windows, nothing happened. I forced the computer off by holding down the power button, turned it back on and ran the utility it recommended on restart. Of course, Windows could not find a solution to the problem so I just told it to move into Windows, which it did, and it performed perfectly fine. Since then, once a day, usually the first time I start the system, Windows fails to start. So I force it off, restart, and it works perfectly fine.
Please note, I am running two drives in this machine. The primary boot drive is an Intel SSD with Windows 7 Ultimate, and the secondary drive is a mechanical HDD with 500GB storage (only 33 GB space remaining) and I have not yet removed the other copy of Windows 7 from that HDD. It was never a problem before, and I'm not sure why it would be now but I thought it was important to note.
As you can imagine, this is becoming both annoying and somewhat distressing but I am unsure how to fix it. It has other issues, like I just found out that Office 2010 somehow removed the software necessary for spell check and it won't link to the internet from within any Office program to fix it. But my major question is why is my computer freezing, why is Windows failing to start, and how can I fix it. Thanks for the help everyone!
System Specs:
CPU: Intel 2600K @ 4.5Ghz under Corsair H70
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance
GPU: nVidia 580 x2 in SLI
Storage: Primary Drive: Intel 160GB SSD
Storage: Secondary Drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB
PSU: Corsair AX1200 Gold
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate
A few months ago, when I was watching Youtube videos or occasionally playing video games online, the computer would completely lock up. It would not respond to Alt+F4, Ctrl+Alt+Del, or any other input but would always come back and work normally after approximately 30 seconds to a minute. Most of the time there was no explanation given, but occasionally, and with no regularity it say that the nVidia video drivers had recovered from having crashed or experienced some fatal error. No matter what, it would always come back and work fine.
For the first time ever 4 days ago, Windows failed to start. I have disabled the GUI Boot so I usually get a black screen anyway upon start up, but instead of loading into Windows, nothing happened. I forced the computer off by holding down the power button, turned it back on and ran the utility it recommended on restart. Of course, Windows could not find a solution to the problem so I just told it to move into Windows, which it did, and it performed perfectly fine. Since then, once a day, usually the first time I start the system, Windows fails to start. So I force it off, restart, and it works perfectly fine.
Please note, I am running two drives in this machine. The primary boot drive is an Intel SSD with Windows 7 Ultimate, and the secondary drive is a mechanical HDD with 500GB storage (only 33 GB space remaining) and I have not yet removed the other copy of Windows 7 from that HDD. It was never a problem before, and I'm not sure why it would be now but I thought it was important to note.
As you can imagine, this is becoming both annoying and somewhat distressing but I am unsure how to fix it. It has other issues, like I just found out that Office 2010 somehow removed the software necessary for spell check and it won't link to the internet from within any Office program to fix it. But my major question is why is my computer freezing, why is Windows failing to start, and how can I fix it. Thanks for the help everyone!
System Specs:
CPU: Intel 2600K @ 4.5Ghz under Corsair H70
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance
GPU: nVidia 580 x2 in SLI
Storage: Primary Drive: Intel 160GB SSD
Storage: Secondary Drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB
PSU: Corsair AX1200 Gold
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate
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