hey, im having a problem with system crashing and then the inability to reboot with a manual reset. if i hold the power key to power off the system then i can boot back into windows.
here is some info. on the symptoms of the crash.
i have set my computer to never sleep before the crashes started happening in order to dl torrents. also i turned windows firewall off.
i havent seen the comp crash but when ive woken up the screen is in the bios saying please insert bootable device or media and then press a key (or something similiar to that).
when i do a reset and enter the bios and look at the boot devices it doesnt show my 2 sata devices which are set to acpi in the bios (the bootable hd and a storage hd). it only shows the sata dvdrom which is set to ide. when i do a shutdown holding the power key and a reset then comp boots as normal.
this has happened 2 times over 3 days or so. i looked in the event viewer and could only find one entry that looked to be recorded because of one of these crashes: error, event id: 6008. details of this even basically said that there was an unexpected shutdown of the system.
can anyone help me fix this. if you need more info. let me know. - Mike
here is some info. on the symptoms of the crash.
i have set my computer to never sleep before the crashes started happening in order to dl torrents. also i turned windows firewall off.
i havent seen the comp crash but when ive woken up the screen is in the bios saying please insert bootable device or media and then press a key (or something similiar to that).
when i do a reset and enter the bios and look at the boot devices it doesnt show my 2 sata devices which are set to acpi in the bios (the bootable hd and a storage hd). it only shows the sata dvdrom which is set to ide. when i do a shutdown holding the power key and a reset then comp boots as normal.
this has happened 2 times over 3 days or so. i looked in the event viewer and could only find one entry that looked to be recorded because of one of these crashes: error, event id: 6008. details of this even basically said that there was an unexpected shutdown of the system.
can anyone help me fix this. if you need more info. let me know. - Mike