BumpSkillz
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Hello everyone,
I am having a problem where my computer just shuts down out of nowhere (no pattern at all) and reboots itself automatically. There is no "blue screen of death" or anything. All I hear is a click (sounds like hard drive or something) from the inside of the computer as my screen just goes black. Then it reboots.
Now the part that is most interesting is that when I first start up my computer after it has been off for a while, I hear a very "aggressive" spinning of some sort from inside the case. It almost sounds like the hard drive spinning loudly. For the first minute or so this will happen, and it WILL NOT completely boot up Windows XP at all until this spinning suddenly calms to a normal sounding spin. The computer WILL boot, and it WILL start to boot Windows, but then it will shut off and tell me that Windows did not boot properly during the last attempt, and asks how I want to start up. (Safe Mode, Regular, etc.) I usually just wait at this screen until the spinning sound calms, then I start up normally and it is fine... UNTIL it decides to just shut off for no reason. (and when it shuts off with a normal spinning hard drive -- if that's what it is -- it doesn't give me that message... it just reboots normally)
Once in a while it will tell me that a registry file had to be recovered or that there was a serious error that Windows recovered from.
Keep in mind... This happened to me starting a couple of weeks ago, so I installed a fresh copy of Windows XP and it still happens.
Any ideas? Is my hard drive at the end of its 4 year life?
I am having a problem where my computer just shuts down out of nowhere (no pattern at all) and reboots itself automatically. There is no "blue screen of death" or anything. All I hear is a click (sounds like hard drive or something) from the inside of the computer as my screen just goes black. Then it reboots.
Now the part that is most interesting is that when I first start up my computer after it has been off for a while, I hear a very "aggressive" spinning of some sort from inside the case. It almost sounds like the hard drive spinning loudly. For the first minute or so this will happen, and it WILL NOT completely boot up Windows XP at all until this spinning suddenly calms to a normal sounding spin. The computer WILL boot, and it WILL start to boot Windows, but then it will shut off and tell me that Windows did not boot properly during the last attempt, and asks how I want to start up. (Safe Mode, Regular, etc.) I usually just wait at this screen until the spinning sound calms, then I start up normally and it is fine... UNTIL it decides to just shut off for no reason. (and when it shuts off with a normal spinning hard drive -- if that's what it is -- it doesn't give me that message... it just reboots normally)
Once in a while it will tell me that a registry file had to be recovered or that there was a serious error that Windows recovered from.
Keep in mind... This happened to me starting a couple of weeks ago, so I installed a fresh copy of Windows XP and it still happens.
Any ideas? Is my hard drive at the end of its 4 year life?