Haven't encountered this one. I'd add to the list of suggestions to either swap graphics card or switch to integrated graphics (if applicable) etc.
I did have a bizarre problem with a OCZ vertex 2 SSD reasonably recently. I think it was a blue screen, then complete failure to reboot. The thing was I could get to bios and all happily, but the drive was not recognised. Tried every different port, still no luck. So I got and old clunky mechanical drive out, and booted to that. Managed to copy my last image to that (for some reason couldn't copy it to another SSD !!). I went to try to get any recent data (that day's) off the Ocz, and still couldn't get it to be recognized. Whilst mucking around I happened to hot plug in the sata (power first, then sata), and hey presto the Ocz SSD was all back happy and working. This was really strange as it wasn't the mb as such as I was using the same ports with mechanical drives yet the Ocz couldn't be read: it must have been something in the Ocz SSD itself. I think the problems all stem from a hot swap drive bay where the mb doesn't support hot swap. The chances of that story being useful to you however are probably less than one in a million, but you never know, it might be ;) |-----Original Message----- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Burstin |Sent: Thursday, 24 February 2011 11:34 AM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: Re: [OT] Help - my computer has sh*t itself | |Thanks David. That's my plan - pull all the data off the SSD so at least that is |safe. | |Unfortunately I am the OEM of my machine so apart from frowning at myself |in the mirror I don't have much else recourse that way. Hopefully once the data |is safe I can reformat and all will be good for a reinstall, but as it stands, the |reinstall process just hangs. | |I guess I was really just hoping that someone would say something like "oh |yeah, I had that problem too. Just pat your head and rub your stomach, reboot |and all will be back to normal". I really prefer trivial fixes :) | | |On 24 February 2011 11:24, David Connors <da...@codify.com> wrote: | | | On 24 February 2011 10:09, David Burstin <david.burs...@gmail.com> |wrote: | | | QUESTION: | Does anyone have any ideas how I can get this machine to |reboot? I don't mind reinstalling Windows as long as I can get to the files on the |machine. I have backups but that will be a painful road as I still need a machine |to be in a working state so that I can restore the backup. | | | I'd put your SSD in another machine (as a secondary, not boot disk) to |get the data off as a priority - then just call Dell or whoever to make them fix it. | | | -- | David Connors | da...@codify.com <mailto:da...@codify.com> | |www.codify.com <http://www.codify.com> | Software Engineer | Codify Pty Ltd | Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 |417 189 363 | V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors |<https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors> | Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact |<https://www.codify.com/contact> | | |
