LaDestitute
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This computer I'm typing from, I have built myself. I haven't really had any problem with this computer until a week ago, which I thought was just a fluke/one-off incident (i.e, shit happens) but no...it happened again today. Frankly, I'm a little worried now.
But, first; here are my specs in short:
Motherboard: ASUS M4A87TD/USB3 AM3 AMD 870 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 (AMD)
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium x64 (build 7601)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 925 @2.80 GHz
RAM: Mushkin 2GB DDR3-SDRAM PC3-12800 x4 (8 GB)
Video: Zotac GeForce GTS 250 @512MB memory
Sound: Via HD audio
About a week ago, my computer failed to detect my boot-drive (a 40GB Corsair Sandforce SSD) and all I was getting was a black screen after the bootup messages from my motherboard. I had to open up my case after I shut down and reconnect my SSD's wires...and viola, the drive was detected. As I said, I thought it was a one-off incident, but it happened again today...ten minutes ago. On a side-note, I was previously able to put my CPU into four-core mode via the motherboard's settings at bootup (before I had to reinstall windows one after getting locked out one day) and the amount of active cores went back to three and along with the second mishap of my boot-drive not being detected, I strangely received an error message at bootup telling me it couldn't support four-code mode and I'm pretty it can. Weird.
My hunch is that I haven't dusted the inside of my computer, but I could be wrong.
But, first; here are my specs in short:
Motherboard: ASUS M4A87TD/USB3 AM3 AMD 870 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 (AMD)
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium x64 (build 7601)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 925 @2.80 GHz
RAM: Mushkin 2GB DDR3-SDRAM PC3-12800 x4 (8 GB)
Video: Zotac GeForce GTS 250 @512MB memory
Sound: Via HD audio
About a week ago, my computer failed to detect my boot-drive (a 40GB Corsair Sandforce SSD) and all I was getting was a black screen after the bootup messages from my motherboard. I had to open up my case after I shut down and reconnect my SSD's wires...and viola, the drive was detected. As I said, I thought it was a one-off incident, but it happened again today...ten minutes ago. On a side-note, I was previously able to put my CPU into four-core mode via the motherboard's settings at bootup (before I had to reinstall windows one after getting locked out one day) and the amount of active cores went back to three and along with the second mishap of my boot-drive not being detected, I strangely received an error message at bootup telling me it couldn't support four-code mode and I'm pretty it can. Weird.
My hunch is that I haven't dusted the inside of my computer, but I could be wrong.