my pc was on for approximately 2 months without a hitch, when all of a sudden a blue screen came up with a load of text on it, but unfortuneatly it only stayed for maybe 1 second so i didnt get chance to read it.

after that, the screen went black and in the top left it just said "PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT"

so i reboot and after drive detection but before windows boots i just get the same prompt to reboot.

i turned it off for a few mins.

turned it back on and it boots fine, stays loaded for maybe 10 mins and does the same thing again.

i thought it was a dodgy o/s drive for a start so i unplugged it and swapped it for a new disc but had the same problem when booting.

then i unplugged the hard drive controller which runs all my storage discs...

since then its been running for about 5 days again with no hitch...

unfortuneatly i dont have much money so i cant go about replacing everything until i find what the culprit was


whats fucked? do you think its the controller?

suggestions appreciated

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it has to be the controller or some other piece of software/hardware that has lower kernel access. windows will not come up with a black screen that says press any key to reboot if it has a BSOD while running. whatever generated that error message is the culprit.

get a new card, or check the cabling, or check the drives.

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Originally posted by Dwaggy
Thats alot of words for someone that sells DVDs out of the back of a truck

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