I've had the following problems since my comp arrived yesterday and thought it would be useful to post them either for help from you or simple for your own information which maybe you could use when building/setting up your other computers. One of the problems I have touch wood fixed the other I've not tried since the computer arrived yesterday.
1. Invalid system disk. Replace the disk and then press any key.
I left my new computer on when I went to sleep last night as it was slowly downloading the 10 GB worth of updates it takes to get World of Warcraft fully updated.
Well I woke up a few hours later and went to check it and there it was, invalid system disk... my computer had tried to reboot at some point and failed, giving this error message.
I had left a pen drive plugged into the front of my computer and wondered if this could be anything to do with it. I removed it and restarted the computer..... but no dice. The computer still said invalid system disk and by this point I was worried.
Fix: Went into BIOS and changed the boot priory list which read:
1. Removable disk
2. Hard drive
Swapped those two round and my computer booted. Why did removing the pen drive not fix the problem is my question and why would it just not skip past the pen drive and boot without me touching the BIOS settings either?
2. Computer does not wake from sleep mode.
I put my computer in sleep mode a couple of times (Windows 7 64 bit) but the computer will not exit sleep mode.... it cannot be woken by pressing any buttons on the mouse, keyboard or the computer itself. It stays completely silent and in a deep sleep. The only thing that helped was turning the power off and back on. Since then I no longer let my computer enter sleep mode as it doesn't enjoy waking up at all .:turned:
Does anyone have any advice on why this may be and could it be related to the first problem? Have not tried putting it in sleep mode again since the invalid disk problem.
Other than that no more problems yet.
Cheers
1. Invalid system disk. Replace the disk and then press any key.
I left my new computer on when I went to sleep last night as it was slowly downloading the 10 GB worth of updates it takes to get World of Warcraft fully updated.
Well I woke up a few hours later and went to check it and there it was, invalid system disk... my computer had tried to reboot at some point and failed, giving this error message.
I had left a pen drive plugged into the front of my computer and wondered if this could be anything to do with it. I removed it and restarted the computer..... but no dice. The computer still said invalid system disk and by this point I was worried.
Fix: Went into BIOS and changed the boot priory list which read:
1. Removable disk
2. Hard drive
Swapped those two round and my computer booted. Why did removing the pen drive not fix the problem is my question and why would it just not skip past the pen drive and boot without me touching the BIOS settings either?
2. Computer does not wake from sleep mode.
I put my computer in sleep mode a couple of times (Windows 7 64 bit) but the computer will not exit sleep mode.... it cannot be woken by pressing any buttons on the mouse, keyboard or the computer itself. It stays completely silent and in a deep sleep. The only thing that helped was turning the power off and back on. Since then I no longer let my computer enter sleep mode as it doesn't enjoy waking up at all .:turned:
Does anyone have any advice on why this may be and could it be related to the first problem? Have not tried putting it in sleep mode again since the invalid disk problem.
Other than that no more problems yet.
Cheers
