disk check on start up?

postingalwaysposting

Hope you can help. About 30min ago I shut down my desk top as usual, it would close down however then keep rebooting itself. When I turned the monitor back on it was going through a disk check? I then carryed on using a different laptop however I needed a document from my main pc, when I booted it up it went through the same disk check after the windows xp sign before I could put my password in. Any ideas what it is or if I should be worried. Everything is backed up anyways

Running xp, use anti virus and spyware once a week plus avg runs a scan every night. The pc itself if prob 4 years old now, used every day since purchase.

Thanks for any help.

cmatt

disk check (dskchk) is checking the disk integrity of the file system. It is a valid windows process.

it would have been triggered by your PC constantly restarting. Which is a potential issue... this could be due to overheating (try and clean the rear fans...) etc...

postingalwaysposting

cmatt wrote: »

disk check (dskchk) is checking the disk integrity of the file system. It is a valid windows process.

it would have been triggered by your PC constantly restarting. Which is a potential issue... this could be due to overheating (try and clean the rear fans...) etc...

Thanks Matt, will get my fans cleaned tommorow but at least my pc is coming to no harm I am happy

Thanks :A

cmatt

postingalwaysposting wrote: »

Thanks Matt, will get my fans cleaned tommorow but at least my pc is coming to no harm I am happy

Thanks :A

depends on how loose you define harm - hard disks should really be powered down properly rather then the power completely shutting off...

hence the dskchk...

but it should be working fine there could be other problems... but give your pc a bit of a clean and that should fix it

if not, post back in here :beer: