Untitledone
[H]ard|DCer of the Month - April 2012
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Well last night I went to check my folding rig and noticed that it was at the Win7 login screen. I though "oh man, the computer restarted". Well I get to my desktop and notice that half of my desktop icons were not there, and I get a lovely "windows has recovered from a serious error". I though "eh its late I must be seeing things" as I have had wierd issues before late at night only to have them completely gone the next morning. Well I decided to do a ctrl+alt+delete and check processes, and performance and stuff. Well lo and behold system uptime was at 11 days still so the computer had not restarted.
I went to fire up HFM, and to my dumbfoundedness the HFM config file was no where to be found so my 65 captured work units were gone. I went to fire up the F@H smp client and it had restarted at 0%.
I went to check more stuff and for some reason the windows browser menu thingy showed nothing in my documents/downloads, and my IE 9 favorites were gone. I went to IE9 and blah my home page was gone too!
Luckily I checked the actual C:\ drive and there it was all my stuff! Favorites, Downloads, even the Icons were in the desktop folder!
I just backed everything up, and I am reinstalling Win7. I plan to do a dual boot with linux for Folding, and win7 for gaming or whatever else I cant do with linux.
At first I thought it was a failed overclock, but would a bluescreen from an overclock nuke the OS like that? I was running stable for 11 days on that overclock with no errors, or lost WU.
Well looks like I will just setup linux. If it happens again I know it is the overclock, but I just dont believe an overclock related crash would nuke the OS.
I went to fire up HFM, and to my dumbfoundedness the HFM config file was no where to be found so my 65 captured work units were gone. I went to fire up the F@H smp client and it had restarted at 0%.
I went to check more stuff and for some reason the windows browser menu thingy showed nothing in my documents/downloads, and my IE 9 favorites were gone. I went to IE9 and blah my home page was gone too!
Luckily I checked the actual C:\ drive and there it was all my stuff! Favorites, Downloads, even the Icons were in the desktop folder!
I just backed everything up, and I am reinstalling Win7. I plan to do a dual boot with linux for Folding, and win7 for gaming or whatever else I cant do with linux.
At first I thought it was a failed overclock, but would a bluescreen from an overclock nuke the OS like that? I was running stable for 11 days on that overclock with no errors, or lost WU.
Well looks like I will just setup linux. If it happens again I know it is the overclock, but I just dont believe an overclock related crash would nuke the OS.