Help PCM intermittent error msg

[Moriath]

I get usable to boot Peres Carl alt dlt try again

Happened a couple of times now

Is the primary disk spinning up to slow

Done a smart scan on it everything 100%. Not sure if it will be a primary hdd prob or a mobo one any ideas

Cheers

 

[SheepCow]

Erm.

What's the error message? It goes through the BIOS and then fails to boot? What OS?

 

[Litmus]

Can't understand a word your going on about

 

[caLLous]

The first sentence completely threw me, I *think* he was going for "I get unable to boot press ctrl alt delete to try again" or something like that. Far too vague to be able to offer any help though.

 

[Moriath]

Sorry damn auto correct and vodka not a good mix.

It's coming up disk read error press ctrl alt dlt

When booting

So it posts fine

Gets to boot windows and comes up with this .

I press the three fingered salute and it boots up fine.

Done smart checks on all disks. No problem.

Win 7 os but this is before windows boots so its not a windoze problem.

Just wierd all the hdd coming up fine and still an error

 

[old.Osy]

chkdsk /f /r on the C partition, you most likely have some logical errors where system critical files are stored.

 

[Moriath]

I have done a chkdsk. Will the / f / r switches make any difference ?

 

[old.Osy]

Yes.

 

[old.Osy]

Checks a disk and displays a status report.


CHKDSK [volume[[path]filename]]] [/F] [/V] [/R] [/X] [/I] [/C] [/L[:size]] [/B]


volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon),
mount point, or volume name.
filename FAT/FAT32 only: Specifies the files to check for fragmentation
.
/F Fixes errors on the disk.
/V On FAT/FAT32: Displays the full path and name of every file
on the disk.
On NTFS: Displays cleanup messages if any.
/R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information
(implies /F).
/L:size NTFS only: Changes the log file size to the specified number
of kilobytes. If size is not specified, displays current
size.
/X Forces the volume to dismount first if necessary.
All opened handles to the volume would then be invalid
(implies /F).
/I NTFS only: Performs a less vigorous check of index entries.
/C NTFS only: Skips checking of cycles within the folder
structure.
/B NTFS only: Re-evaluates bad clusters on the volume
(implies /R)

The /I or /C switch reduces the amount of time required to run Chkdsk by
skipping certain checks of the volume.