First, my full computer specs;
OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Basic
Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model EG31M-S2
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz, 2999 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Award Software International, Inc. F1, 4/11/2008
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 2.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.05 GB
Total Virtual Memory 4.23 GB
Available Virtual Memory 3.06 GB
Page File Space 2.29 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
FULL account:
Basically one night I was playing a computer game (World of Warcraft to be exact) and my computer suddenly froze with mouse movement. It wasn't uncommon for this to happen, since the exact same thing happens when the internet disconnects for a second. However, this lasted longer. I tried CTRL ALT DLT but it didn't work at all. My mouse then froze. I waited like this for some time before finally pressing the power button on my machine to turn it off, for the first time since I bought it (a few months ago). I turned it back on, and it came up with the error:
Quote:
Verifying DMI Pool Data.........
Boot from CD/DVD:
Press any key to boot from CD/DVD.... (which I can't do because none of the USB ports work during this period for some reason)
A disk read error occurred (once the CD/DVD boot timed out and it tries to boot from system)
Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to reboot (which again I cannot do, because of keyboard issues)
. After about half an hour of constantly trying to reboot, it finally somehow worked again, and turned on. I was sure it was a miracle, and thought nothing more of it. Later that night however, I happened to be playing the same game again, and the exact same thing happened. I went through the same steps as before, and got it working. I decided to try and uninstall and reinstall WoW (World of Warcraft) in case it was a problem with that. However, when I left my computer to install it for the night, it happened again, this time with a blue screen (that flashed too quickly for me to see) and attempted to reboot. I shut it down for the night, and went to bed. The next morning I tried a system restore to June 5th, which seemed to work wonders. My computer worked fine the rest of the day. WoW resinstalled well, and I even played for a while. This morning however, I turned on my computer and left to have breakfast. When I returned, it was still on the boot screen with some error I conveniently forgot to write down, however it was slightly different than the one before. I rebooted and played a little bit, before it happened yet again. This time it displayed some error about a security log on not operating correctly, which was odd. Again I forgot to write down the exact details.
Any help would be of course be extremely nice. I'm not extremely good with computers, so try to help me out by correcting any of my errors and by telling me if I filled something incorrectly. My computer is rather new, and I'd hate to buy a new one, actually I probably couldn't even afford one, unless warranty kicks in. Thanks a bunch!
~Nick
Oh, by the way, my computer is way better than the minimum or even recommended requirements for World of Warcraft... It should be the reason.
Plus, if it makes a difference I also removed all dust from both of my fans, and moved the computer out of the corner it was in. I also am currently typing this on my Ubuntu operated laptop, as I'm not sure if booting up will further harm my computer.
Thanks again!