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Kawa
Posted on 11-29-09 07:20 PM Link | Quote | ID: 120964


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For no good reason, just a few minutes ago, my notebook went and forgot it had an internal HD. Opera crashed, µTorrent followed, I thought it was just a fluke that would resolve itself in a moment so I issued a move on two pictures I had just downloaded, I switch to the still-working mIRC, close the lid to reach my glass of coke... and when I opened it back up the system was restarting. "Okay", I thought... and then it gave me the classic "no system disk or disk error" message. Restart, same. Restarted again, pressed F9 for the startup disk menu -- and hey, only choice was an empty DVD drive! Opened the BIOS settings screen, couldn't find a trace of HD.

So I figured I'd just turn the system off and let it rest for a bit, cool down and stuff. If it still didn't work I'd get the screwdrivers.

It worked, but I still don't know what caused it.

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paulguy
Posted on 11-29-09 11:43 PM Link | Quote | ID: 120996


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Happened to me once when I had a failing hard disk. The SATA controller just completely shut itself down for some reason.

Your problem might not be related to a failing hard disk, though. Probably could be heat related, but also buggy drivers, firmware, other hardware could easily cause such problems. Doesn't seem like something to worry about until it happens again.

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Posted on 12-01-09 12:12 PM Link | Quote | ID: 121119

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Check the event log of Windows? Especially the system log. Weird hardware stuff is usually mentioned there.

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