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Hi Chaps

You know the days when you wake up.. it's not raining (a bonus).. you're at work in the afternoon so no rush.. you amble downstairs and put the kettle on then nip into the toyroom and turn the pc on to see what's been happening overnight. Pop into the kitchen to see if the kettle has boiled (it hasn't) then back to the toyroom to see the PC with a black screen/white characters saying that it needs to check the integrity of drive 'C' How quickly your day changes

Is this a precursor to something more sinister I wonder

ATB
Disgruntled of the West Midlands

I know that feeling well, particularly just lately. Not nice at all - best of luck in resolving it.

Cheers Paul

I'm disappointed to say the least.. more so given that this setup was only built around Christmas. OK.. all but the memory and case were secondhand but even so, I expected more trouble-free running than 8 months I've run MSE and SpyHunter twice (just in case) and nothing out of the ordinary popped up. SH found 14 malicious bits of adware on the first run (dodgy cookies) but that's par for the course.
I've been seeing 'flashes' recently while in FSX (while panning) which seem to have got worse for some reason so I rebuilt the FSX.cfg a few days ago and they went away. I hoped that would be the end of it. I deleted the shaders file yesterday and let it rebuild but that shouldn't cause CHKDSK to initiate.. it never has before
The hardware is all running in standard/default mode.. eg not overclocked. The old SSD I have as 'C' is 'as is'.. not partitioned. I wonder if IT or the CPU are having second thoughts? I've discounted the memory as it's new which to my mind leaves either the cpu (which writes to the SSD) or the SSD itself losing a few bits of memory

I'll have to play it by ear for now and see what pop's up
ATB
DaveB

Hi Dave,
Do you have any of the Windows security or self analysis bits turned on?
Apart from Windows, I run Iolo's System Mechanic on both our units.
It's not uncommon for our systems to do a run similar to yours.
This is especially if something was found during a check, like hard drive error or registry needing re arranging/compacting.
I've accepted it as part of day to day process.

Hi Dave

Sorry to read this mate...only eight months

I can certainly vouch for System Mechanic.

I rate a computer failure as about the most stressful breakdown in the modern world...such frustration on so many levels

Hmm.. I've looked at System Mechanic and it mentions defragging a hell of a lot. How it's supposed to do this on SSD's is beyond me as you're not supposed to defrag the darned things AFAIK.. or is that format? I know you're not supposed to format them.. not sure about defragging now Windows hasn't reported a HD needing defragging in years and after 8months use.. I can't imagine for one minute the SSD needs it.

I take your recommendations onboard but confess to being a little sceptical of progs that fix everything in an instant.. especially at $39.99 a throw

ATB
DaveB

Should never defrag a SSD Dave.

Dave,

would this have happened after win 7 doled out 16 updates?

same thing happened here a couple days ago.
I ran a disk checking program after and all was good.


also re defrag.
Msconfig ... uncheck run defrag at start up under services tab.


ATB

Joe

I suspect its something in nothing Dave. An update that got its knickers in a twist when the system was shutting down sounds entirely plausible.

Cheers Dave.. I thought the 'do not do' included defragging

Rgr Joe and Rgr that Ben
Fingers crossed

ATB
DaveB