Routine blue screen of death after first boot, then OK.

[Sebastian42]

Have not yet had another BSOD, to be able to capture the stopcode.

 

[Wolfie]

Keep us posted please.

 

[Sebastian42]

No news will be good news I guess....

 

[Wolfie]

No news will be good news I guess....

If and when you are satisfied that it is working, please mark the thread as solved so it helps others.

If you have further problems, by all means post them.

 

[Sebastian42]

NO BSOD, but this morning the PC had at least three attempts at booting before succeeding enough that I could post this - the last reboot was triggered by me doing a hot restart when booting had hung at the Windows logo - without a dynamic circle.

 

[Sebastian42]

That rebooting followed on a deliberate shutdown (throwing the switch) last night when it took inordinately long to shutdown by itself.

 

[Wolfie]

How new/old is the hard drive?, have you tried setting BIOS to default settings?.

 

[Sebastian42]

The HDD is an SSD - probably less than 3 years old. No I have not tried setting BIOS to default settings. What would I lose if I did ?

 

[Wolfie]

What would I lose if I did

Any possible changes to BIOS like overclocking of the CPU or RAM would be set to system defaults, apart from that you really don't have anything to lose and it is worth a try!.

 

[Sebastian42]

Since I lost the mouse cursor again, I took that opportunity of a reboot, to tamper with the BIOS. I had not set overclocking, and am not aware of any RAM settings. However, I did set it to Optimised Defaults. It would not boot for lack of an operating system; so I reset the boot sequence to HDD rather than floppy. Not only that, but none of the connected HDDs show, which is probably because the SATA ports lost their AHCI settings.

 

[Sebastian42]

I wrote an untruth - BIOS DOES have Advanced Memory settings - which I've had no reason to alter. Resetting IDE to AHCI caused all my connected HDDs to once again appear. But so far I have had to reset the Master HDD as the boot medium - has NOT get self-chosen.

 

[Wolfie]

The HDD is an SSD - probably less than 3 years old.

Do you have another drive you can try as it might be that the drive is failing and that is what is causing the problems????????.

 

[Sebastian42]

Yes, I can run the PC from a different drive. But I have not seen a BSOD for a while.

 

[Wolfie]

But I have not seen a BSOD for a while

You mean with the SSD installed?.

 

[Sebastian42]

SSD installed ? It has been connected all along - I do not know about installing an SSD.

 

[Wolfie]

SSD installed ? It has been connected all along - I do not know about installing an SSD.

What I meant was that if you have an older HDD and did you have a BSOD with that installed?. If you haven't had a BSOD for a while, is your problem solved now?.

 

[Sebastian42]

I can but hope that the problem is solved - only time will tell.

 

[Sebastian42]

Time has told - after a relatively long delay, another BSOD this morning. I could, but have not yet, run the system continuously from another SSD.

 

[Wolfie]

Try a different drive, that way you can narrow down the problem to the SSD if it is defective?.

 

[Sebastian42]

I do my routine weekly cloning tomorrow, and can then start using an other drive. Or maybe I should wait till I get another BSOD and have the presence of mind to note down the error code to send to you.