blue screen?

sebastianj

I have discovered that it is the Hard disk and I will be changing it on Thursday when it arrives, hope my assessment is right.

seb

London_Ash

I'd be interested to hear what made you think it was the hard disk, so we can be sure?

Ash

Double_V

Blue screen of death normally happens when your hard disk is about to die.
My advise, backup everything as it can die anytime.
Blue screens always hard disk issue.

Happened with me quiet few times.

warehouse

Modern operating systems blue screen much less then they used to. These days I see so few in our company network that when I do it brings back fond memories.

In the last couple of years I think every blue screen has been a hardware fault, most video card related. OP, what makes you think it's the HD?

London_Ash

Double_V wrote: »

Blue screen of death normally happens when your hard disk is about to die.
My advise, backup everything as it can die anytime.
Blue screens always hard disk issue.

Happened with me quiet few times.

90% of the machines this has happened to me on have been down to graphics card issues. It can be caused by a defect on any hardware within the machine for a variety of reasons, but the hard disk is a common one, not "always hard disk issue"

warehouse

Double_V wrote: »

Blue screens always hard disk issue.

So the fact that some capacitors had blown on a video card causing my last blue screen were just my imagination then?

Double_V

London_Ash wrote: »

90% of the machines this has happened to me on have been down to graphics card issues. It can be caused by a defect on any hardware within the machine for a variety of reasons, but the hard disk is a common one, not "always hard disk issue"

Okay my bad.
Poor choice of words.
Yeah you are right.
Mostly hard disk.

warehouse

Double_V wrote: »

Mostly hard disk.

In your experience. This is very misleading.

Fightsback

warehouse wrote: »

Modern operating systems blue screen much less then they used to. These days I see so few in our company network that when I do it brings back fond memories.

In the last couple of years I think every blue screen has been a hardware fault, most video card related. OP, what makes you think it's the HD?

Even Windows update:

http://windowsitpro.com/windows/microsoft-pulls-kb298271-after-4-days-blue-screens

So many things that can bring about the issue, AV solutions are often a common culprit.

Cycrow

Some of the hard drive fails are not actually due to the faulty hard drives.

faulty ram, cpu or motherboard can cause a hard drive to appear faulty too.

most blue screens i've had recently have been down to overclocking the cpu or gpu too far causing instabilities