So I come home from work and my computer (which is normally on) is dark. At first I think it's the monitor, but it's only 6 months old and it turns out to be working just fine.
So I reboot. Windows stalls on the splash screen and freezes. Reboot again, this time nothing. Black screen of death. Wait about 15 minutes then reboot again. This time I get the black screen with type that states Windows had a problem so I rebooted in safe mode. Everything proceeded to load up fine. I can access files from both my hard drives.
I may just be imagining things but I think I may be hearing the occasional unusal sound coming from either my hard drives or my CPU (probably the drives). I'm scanning for viruses right now but are there any other diagnostic checks I can do? For example, to see if Windows is in fact okay?
I figure since my computer is presently working I should troubleshoot now in case things crash again...
So I reboot. Windows stalls on the splash screen and freezes. Reboot again, this time nothing. Black screen of death. Wait about 15 minutes then reboot again. This time I get the black screen with type that states Windows had a problem so I rebooted in safe mode. Everything proceeded to load up fine. I can access files from both my hard drives.
I may just be imagining things but I think I may be hearing the occasional unusal sound coming from either my hard drives or my CPU (probably the drives). I'm scanning for viruses right now but are there any other diagnostic checks I can do? For example, to see if Windows is in fact okay?
I figure since my computer is presently working I should troubleshoot now in case things crash again...