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    Windows start up repair.

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Jay633, Feb 18, 2011.

  1. Jay633

    Jay633 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just wondered how many people get the windows start up repair out of the blue? Is this the result of overclocking? maybe running thottlestop or msi afterburn?

    The reason I ask is I have had my mx11 for about 3 weeks now and already reinstalled windows twice. Once via the recovery partition and 2nd time via the windows 7 disk. Everything was running fine, stable and then out of the blue, I got windows start up repair again. I did repair and it seems to be fine, but what could be causing it?

    Is this common on overclocked machines or do I have issues with my machine? (hardware/ software)
     
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    Does it give you an option to continue on to windows?
     
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    Nope, just starts to check files. This time it managed to repair and I was in windows fine, but last time, it could not repair hence reinstalling windows.
     
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    Odd, that's never happened to me, and I've OC'd mine, and my sons with no issue like that, so I don't think it has anything to do with OC'ing it. Maybe run a chkdisk? Perhaps a file is getting corrupted that triggers windows to think it needs to repair itself. Strange.

    This is on the R1, btw.
     
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    I'm on an R2 and I5 processor. A bit weird but yep I will run check disk and see what it says. Could bs some games on there maybe that I have installed.
     
    Jay633, Feb 18, 2011
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