Einstein crashed my computer beyond repair
13 May 2008 8:07:09 UTC
Topic 193672
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The installation for Einstein@home went well. However, the next time I turned on my computer, I got the blue screen of death.
There are several boot options given to me and none of them can get past this blue screen. The specific error is UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME, which I assume is the section of the hard drive now devoted to Einstein@home.
My question is, has anybody else had this problem?
Einstein crashed my computer beyond repair
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This looks as if something happened to your master boot record, but I can't imagine what E@H should have to do with this. Sometimes disks just fail, and it's a bit drastic to blame the last thing you did on that PC for this. I mean no matter when a disk fails like this, there will always be one thing you did last before it crashed, that doesn't mean there is a logical connection.
So unless you have some more substantial hint that E@H is to blame, I'd rather like to change the subject of this thread to something less scary :-)
CU
Bikeman
http://support.microsoft.com/
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297185
Well, I know E@H is the
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Well, I know E@H is the problem because it was on a fresh install of Windows XP (less than a week old) and it was the only program running when I shut the computer down.
Thanks ageless, I'll try those steps Microsoft gives :)
RE: Well, I know E@H is the
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As Bikeman alluded to and as the Microsoft suggestions also imply, it's most likely to turn out to be something hardware related and not the fault of Einstein at all. It's very easy to lash out and blame the innocent party when you don't really know the cause of the problem.
When you do solve it and you find it's not to do with Einstein, I hope you will come back and put the record straight as Bikeman suggested. In that case I hope you will change the thread title so as not to convey an erroneous impression for all other users to puzzle about. We do sympathise with your frustration but your computer is really NOT "beyond repair".
Good luck with finding what actually did cause the issue.
Cheers,
Gary.
RE: Well, I know E@H is the
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I assume it was no longer a 'fresh installation of Windows' but in the middle of 'automatic updates' when the computer was booted.
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I disabled automatic updates
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I disabled automatic updates and made the computer as light as possible so that I could devote more resources to my BOINC. So when I have one service running when the power cuts and the computer doesn't work anymore, guess who I blame?
OK, now I guess I should change the title cuz no real damage was done
RE: I disabled automatic
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Then the BSOD might have been when a hacker got in through a security bug, which you didn't have patched because you disabled the updates.