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To: Elroy who wrote (88713)	5/18/2015 6:40:22 AM
From: Id_Jit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

I believe that I had something like that happen ONCE... a long time ago. Dunno if I got an error message or just a black screen. But before I offer a WAG... Why did you reboot? Did it freeze up on you? How did you reboot?.. reset button or power off button? I am not familiar with an all in one. My guess, in my case, was that a glitch got into the A.C. power supply. Perhaps a surge or spike from the A.C. or from within my desktop itself. The power supply itself then went into a “safe mode” or partially shut down. Removing the A.C. (I used the power switch on the back of the box.) forced a hard reset to the power supply. Id

To: Elroy who wrote (88713)	5/27/2015 8:18:01 AM
From: Mario :-)	2 Recommendations Recommended By goldworldnet Gottfried Respond to of 110626

Why you got that error msg? System didn't properly load boot loader/system from your HDD? Why? There could be several reasons, but one the most worrisome is that your HDD (hard disk drive) may be dying. May, i'm not saying it will, although they all die it is just a matter of time. There is one free program that does decent job at identifying possible problems. It is called Crystal Disk Info or something similar. I'm writing this out of memory. Just be careful where you download it from, many free web sites add some potentially unwanted crap with free software. Luckily this program can be obtained and run as 'portable app' - no installation needed. Programs like this are the best and can be run from USB memory stick. Go to portableapps.com and download it from there and you should get clean version of program. That program is not magician, can't tell you 100% if you HDD is dying. But if you get any warning from it, I would look into getting me a new one. And make sure you have a backup of everything in case it does die. portableapps.com Ahh found it for you: portableapps.com After you run the test you want to see blue good color on all your disk drives.