- Sep 1, 2015
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My girlfriend's been using her computer a while now, but in the last 2 years it's been acting weird - random crashes, BSoD, slow performance even after new Windows installation, ...
In October 2015 I fully cleaned (physically - with airbrush and so on) and reinstalled everything on her computer. Should've been "brand new", except for the hardware part.
In less than two months (so around December 2015), she got an error like "Boot device not found ..." and there was no way to locate her hard drive anymore. So I decided to upgrade her computer a little bit.
Since she had problems with crashes and stuff like that, I figured the PSU might be old. Along with that, her Hard Drives were at least 8 years old too, so I decided to change those too.
What I did was buy:
- New SSD
- New HDD
- New PSU
- New fans (both tower and cpu fans)
Then I reinstalled everything again. Everything worked perfectly. Her computer was fast, no crashes were involved anymore, and so on ...
However, today she called me and said she got the same error again. "Boot device not found ...". Sadly I'm not near her to go check her computer what the exact error states, but I would assume you guys are familiar with it?
So my question is ... what could possibly be going wrong that she got the same error again (even though 2 months passed)? The only thing that hasn't been changed in her computer are Motherboard, Processor, RAM's and cables that connect motherboard and hard drives.
I also hope that this doesn't mean that her new Hard Drives got fried or something? I want to find the solution once and for all.
If by any chance I provided too few information about the error, she should send me the full text of what the error says by the end of the day.
In October 2015 I fully cleaned (physically - with airbrush and so on) and reinstalled everything on her computer. Should've been "brand new", except for the hardware part.
In less than two months (so around December 2015), she got an error like "Boot device not found ..." and there was no way to locate her hard drive anymore. So I decided to upgrade her computer a little bit.
Since she had problems with crashes and stuff like that, I figured the PSU might be old. Along with that, her Hard Drives were at least 8 years old too, so I decided to change those too.
What I did was buy:
- New SSD
- New HDD
- New PSU
- New fans (both tower and cpu fans)
Then I reinstalled everything again. Everything worked perfectly. Her computer was fast, no crashes were involved anymore, and so on ...
However, today she called me and said she got the same error again. "Boot device not found ...". Sadly I'm not near her to go check her computer what the exact error states, but I would assume you guys are familiar with it?
So my question is ... what could possibly be going wrong that she got the same error again (even though 2 months passed)? The only thing that hasn't been changed in her computer are Motherboard, Processor, RAM's and cables that connect motherboard and hard drives.
I also hope that this doesn't mean that her new Hard Drives got fried or something? I want to find the solution once and for all.
If by any chance I provided too few information about the error, she should send me the full text of what the error says by the end of the day.
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