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Discussions tagged with 'computer malfunction' cover real-world incidents and technical troubleshooting. One thread reports a nationwide computer malfunction that grounded United Airlines flights due to a reservations system failure, with no attack suspected. Another thread describes a personal computer malfunction where a Windows 7 system experienced a BSOD, followed by the BIOS and repair tools failing to recognize the SSD drive, and a boot configuration data error. These examples illustrate how computer malfunctions can range from large-scale enterprise outages to individual hardware or OS issues, often requiring diagnostic steps like checking drive recognition, boot records, and repair tools.
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Glitch Grounds United Airlines Passengers
Nothing was mentioned about an attack, but throngs of passengers stranded in the United Airlines terminal at O'Hare International Airport on Friday night were told to go home or get a hotel after a "nationwide computer malfunction" took out the airline's reservations systems. This occurred at...- reghakr
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- airline issues airport news computer malfunction glitch o'hare airport passengers reservation stranded travel united airlines
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- Forum: The Water Cooler
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Windows 7 BSOD'd then was locked out of drive, repair wont recognize OS presence.
My computer suddenly, and for the first time since i got win7(x64) in nov 09, BSoD'd on me. My bios wont recognize the drive (OCZ vertex SSD) anymore, and when i loaded win7 repair disk and it wont recognize it either. I then loaded win7 onto another disk and put the problem disk on as a...- poof
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- bios boot record bsod computer malfunction data recovery disk management drive issues hardware issues os recognition partition management repair disk ssd startup repair storage devices system repair troubleshooting windows 7
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows Help and Support