corrupt os install or hardware fault

setter · 9 Mar 2013 at 18:35

Earlier today i took my cooler off and repasted the cpu, (coollaboratory liquid ultra). System ran fine until just now, i was playing bf3 and in a few rounds my gun kept dissapearing, upon trying to quit the game the system froze, no programs responding. This happened twice requiring a hard reset, on the second occasion startup repair ran to fix any corrupt or damaged files. This completed but on reboot the system just gets to a black screen with a frozen mouse pointer right after the windows logo appears.

Ive tried with loading default system settings in bios, hdd's and memory are all showing up fine in bios, is this possibly a sign of a corrupt os install, or perhaps a hardware problem. Primary hdd is an ocz vertex 2e 120gb ssd, rest of spec in sig.

Gav_881 · 9 Mar 2013 at 18:55

Best guess would be a poor fit of the cooler and the chip overheating but if you want to prove the hardware boot up a live CD like ubuntu, if that works time for a new OS install.

setter · 9 Mar 2013 at 19:19

Cooler mount went grand mate. lower temps than previous, maxing at 60c on the highest core in game. Currently reinstalling windows to see how that go's. Thankfully there wasnt much on the drive, and it's backed up anyway.

OliverDavis · 10 Mar 2013 at 01:00

Could it be a GPU problem?

If I drop the voltage on my CPU by any more than I already have my 1st GPU runs like crap. Like 10% of the performance it should be doing. But 2nd GPU runs fine...

Could it be a voltage issue? It may be that you might have to add a little voltage to your CPU, see how that goes?

setter · 10 Mar 2013 at 03:26

Thinkin it's more of a hdd issue, ocz vertex 2e 120gb ssd, getting a red flashing light on the drive. Bad sign.

jonathanbruce · 10 Mar 2013 at 12:18

i had one of those vertex2e drives fail on me 3 weeks ago. :eek:

. it was my first ssd though...Be wary of it and start backing up to something else..
i looked around for quite a while before getting a replacement, (looking at warranties) now i have a samsung ssd.... hopefully this will last longer!

monkeys · 10 Mar 2013 at 14:35

Try rolling back windows using 'restore'.
The problem is when you last 'fiddled ' with it ...try re-seating it again.