Comments | hyuga: That was sort of odd

hyuga

That was sort of odd

Dec 15, 2006 22:07

I was in Windows, and it just randomly decided to shut down. Not like a BSOD or a sudden power loss. It actually went through the proper shutdown procedure. Upon rebooting I was greeted with some boot errors, so a trip to the BIOS revealed that a floppy drive that I don't have had been set as my primary boot device, my DVD-ROM drive as my ( Read more... )

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lucky_otter December 16 2006, 03:15:38 UTC

Cosmic rays, man, cosmic rays. Soft errors are the fault condition of the future.

Sounds bizarre. That list of boot devices sounds like a list which a BIOS would create on its own, or have set as default, though it's odd that it didn't find your actual boot drive. Is the boot drive SCSI? Or later in the search than the data drive? hdc, say, where the data drive is hda.

hyuga December 16 2006, 03:24:03 UTC

While I had already long since specified the boot order myself. The actual boot drive is on a SATA controller, so that may have something to do with. But I think it was actually trying to boot off of a non-existent floppy disk or something. Or possibly off of said 60 GB drive (which is hda, but has no boot sector).

Yeah, I think it must have been cosmic rays.

nyyght December 16 2006, 03:16:13 UTC

Either you have a split personality that emerges late at night and causes you to sleep-alter your boot devices or Windows had one of it's famous "mix-n-match" sessions. O.o I'm betting on the latter.