Hi everyone.
I recently bought some computer parts and was hoping for some smooth sailing. Alas, some problems have risen up
The system:
AMD Phenom II 955
Gigabyte 790fxt-ud5p motherboard
4 gigs of OCZ RAM
5770 Vapor-X
Corsair 750W PSU
Samsung Spinpoint F3, 1 TB
The problems:
Well, the main issue at hand is that I get a DISK BOOT FAILURE error about 50% of the times I try to boot up. When I reboot again, Windows boots up fine (if I'm lucky enough to get past the disk boot failure this time at least). I find it strange that there's no consistency as to when the error occurs, seems completely random.
I work a lot and I only have a few hours per day to troubleshoot, so I'm hoping to get some guidance here to isolate the problem as fast as possible. The plan is to run a hard drive diagnostics test when I get home this evening to scan the drive for bad sectors. If that turns out fine, I will try a different SATA cable. Is this the sensible thing to do, or do you think the problem lies elsewhere ?
I'm also thinking it might be a motherboard problem, because of some other issues I've discovered. I've connected my TV to the computer via HDMI. During the bootup process, the image is displayed on my TV (which I thought was strange, I always thought windows needed to be booted before you could see the image through HDMI). But then, when Windows is starting, the image is gone, and even though I've tinkered with the display settings I can't seem to show my desktop on the TV screen.
Furthermore, I can't seem to get any sound to my headset (it always says no output device is plugged in, I've tried both the front and back audio jacks).
Any help concerning the issues is greatly appreciated
I recently bought some computer parts and was hoping for some smooth sailing. Alas, some problems have risen up
The system:
AMD Phenom II 955
Gigabyte 790fxt-ud5p motherboard
4 gigs of OCZ RAM
5770 Vapor-X
Corsair 750W PSU
Samsung Spinpoint F3, 1 TB
The problems:
Well, the main issue at hand is that I get a DISK BOOT FAILURE error about 50% of the times I try to boot up. When I reboot again, Windows boots up fine (if I'm lucky enough to get past the disk boot failure this time at least). I find it strange that there's no consistency as to when the error occurs, seems completely random.
I work a lot and I only have a few hours per day to troubleshoot, so I'm hoping to get some guidance here to isolate the problem as fast as possible. The plan is to run a hard drive diagnostics test when I get home this evening to scan the drive for bad sectors. If that turns out fine, I will try a different SATA cable. Is this the sensible thing to do, or do you think the problem lies elsewhere ?
I'm also thinking it might be a motherboard problem, because of some other issues I've discovered. I've connected my TV to the computer via HDMI. During the bootup process, the image is displayed on my TV (which I thought was strange, I always thought windows needed to be booted before you could see the image through HDMI). But then, when Windows is starting, the image is gone, and even though I've tinkered with the display settings I can't seem to show my desktop on the TV screen.
Furthermore, I can't seem to get any sound to my headset (it always says no output device is plugged in, I've tried both the front and back audio jacks).
Any help concerning the issues is greatly appreciated