- Aug 31, 2009
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This may be a bit of an odd problem so I'll try my best to explain it.
I currently have 2 hard drives in my computer, one of which used to be a USB 2.0 external drive. The internal that I bought when I built my computer wasn't large enough to hold everything I needed it to, so now I use the old external mostly for my Steam/games directory. It does fine for the most part, but every once in a while things just seem to go wrong and the computer will restart. It doesn't actually blue screen, it just restarts. (Sometimes it restarts fine and shows BCCode 109 if I remember correctly.) As it's restarting, I see the normal blueish horizontal lines that appear when you have the 'no GUI boot' option selected, but then some more, weird lines show up behind it that go all the way across the screen. It looks pretty much like this
What I end up having to do is hold the power button until the computer shuts off, remove the hard drive, hook it up via USB, start the computer, and run the windows error check, turn off the computer, re-insert the drive and that seems to solve the problem...until it happens again that is.
I'm close to reformatting one or both of my internal drives, or just buying a new HDD altogether.
I currently have 2 hard drives in my computer, one of which used to be a USB 2.0 external drive. The internal that I bought when I built my computer wasn't large enough to hold everything I needed it to, so now I use the old external mostly for my Steam/games directory. It does fine for the most part, but every once in a while things just seem to go wrong and the computer will restart. It doesn't actually blue screen, it just restarts. (Sometimes it restarts fine and shows BCCode 109 if I remember correctly.) As it's restarting, I see the normal blueish horizontal lines that appear when you have the 'no GUI boot' option selected, but then some more, weird lines show up behind it that go all the way across the screen. It looks pretty much like this
What I end up having to do is hold the power button until the computer shuts off, remove the hard drive, hook it up via USB, start the computer, and run the windows error check, turn off the computer, re-insert the drive and that seems to solve the problem...until it happens again that is.
I'm close to reformatting one or both of my internal drives, or just buying a new HDD altogether.
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