Windows froze, then wouldnt start....

[paulmapp8306]

PC is only 24 hours old. Havent had any problems initially.

Tonight though I played about 3 hours of Divinity Original Sin. Finished my session, and restarted windows from the power setting.

When It came up - it went into the gaming screen, then tried to load windows and I got a blue screen with a missing boot file reference. It game me options to reboot - I did this 3 times. One went to the windows screen, but when I tried to log in it restarted the PC.

Running the Bios "fix" (one of the options on the blue screen) didnt work. Eventually I managed to get it back up (more by luck than judgement) but now Im really concerned.

No idea what happened, or why. It has frozen and re-booted on my twice (after about 10 mins use) - so I found a windows fix program and ran that (a free one recommended on a windows forum). I ran a registered check/fix and so far so good.

Any pointers, hints, things I should do?

Can I boot from the windows CD (came pre installed but I have a hard copy on disc)? Should I/Can I run a windows repair from that disc (without loosing the stuff I spent the last 24 hours loading/setting up). Should I just do a complete fresh install from the disc?

Another small thing - I cant access windows security from the apps - tells me I need a program to run it (or something). I can however access it and change settings from the utility menu thing (the arrow next to the network and vol icons on the lower right bar). Is this something I should worry about? would a new install fix this as well.

any help here would be great. Thanks.

 

[bobuk]

I've used the windows repair option from the cmd prompt successfully before.

 

[paulmapp8306]

I think Ive found the problem causing the crashes/restarts.....Over temps. It appears my case comes fitted with 2 x 120mm fans, and I have a 3rd 140mm added on the intakes. Th etop of the case can either be mesh, with a filter - or a noise reduced block while the sides are noise reduced, and the front can be open/no door for plently of air movement, or closed with noise reduction using side vents (more restricted flow).

The Pc is primarily for music recording/editing so I went silent (why the extra fan - run them slower, and compensate for the less than ideal airflow pattern).

Anyway - I did some investigation - and took the 140mm fan off the front - the idea being Id top mount it with the mesh top - as the only really silent requirement if vocal recording, and if Im doing that I can turn the top fan off and slide the noise reducing top panel on..... I noticed it was fitted the wrong way... it was sucking air out. The problem being it was sucking most of the air that the other fan was bringing in - meaning the only real airflow was the extraction fan. (I will add, this was built for me by the suppliers!!)

As Id already re-ran the cable at that point Ive left the 140 fan top mounted as it draws air directly onto the CPU coolers intake fan. The Coolers exit fan pushed air directly onto the exhaust fan. I remounted the front 120mm fan so it pushes air pretty much directly at the GPU fans, and am relying on case holes to get rid of that heat. Im going to add another 120mm front fan though, so when I turn the top one off to record theres still plenty of cool air - provided I can fit another fan (there are mounting points, but not sure about the power feed - might have to be a permanently on fan fed directly from the PSU).

I got windows repaired, so HOPEFULLY Ill stop getting problems.