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Disposable Hero
Need help Random Reboots with my gaming laptop
I have a MSI 683GT DRX and i have had it for about 3 years, a couple months ago i got this Error PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable. While my laptop still booted and worked fine a new issue came up shortly after and that was random reboots. Sometimes it would reboot while i was on google chrome and sometimes while i was gaming, over time the restarts have gotten worse, some times it will restart as soon as i turn on my laptop.
I have tried a number of things to fix it such as
-Changing the boot order in my bios
-Turning off speedstep
-Reinstalling windows
-Tested my video ram
-Tested my ram with memtest 86x
-Did a recovery back to factory fresh settings
-Tested my power adaptor
-Did a 16 hour benchmark to test the graphics card in which did not restart
-Tested the CPU no errors found
Leads on to what might be causing the problem
-I did get a blue screen of death 050x000000000 which from what i read has to due with the ram.
-I did however find a boot error in my hard drive, which also could have effected the recovery.
-Will not reboot in the bios
-Restarted a lot when i was trying to go into my hard drive settings and change the amount of GB's for each hard drive.
From what i have found and i believe it may be an issue with the hard drive in which would be an easy fix for me, however i want your guys take on also what might be causing the problem from the information i have provided above.
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Ever notice how fast Windows runs? Neither did I
Check temperatures ASAP! It honestly sounds like your laptop is cooking itself Go and grab CPUID's HWMonitor and post the recorded temps on here please http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
Ensure they are in Celsius btw.
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Knee High to a Worms Ass
Download Data Lifeguard.
Run a Quick Test. If it passes, run the Full Test.
Media test failure is almost always your HDD failing a SMART test.
Reference: I own an IT company and replace 2-3 hard drives a week with that exact issue.
Let me know what happens!
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Disposable Hero
Thanks for the replys guys, i forgot to mention the temps are fine and i dusted the living crap out my laptop so heat is not the issue as far I know. Solitaire I think you may be on to something as the random reboots started happening right around same i got the Media Test Failure. When i get windows installed i will run data lifeguard and give it a try.
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Keep honking. I'm reloading
can you go to C:\Windows\Minidump and then upload the latest minidump to a file host this will allow us to see what is failing.
Also, what temperatures are you actually getting?
http://openhardwaremonitor.org/ the open hardware monitor will allow you to see the peak temperatures
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wessoo
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Normally I'd say exchange parts which you think are defect. But since you have a laptop that's pretty much out of the question.
What I would do if I were you, you said it was a RAM problem. So get another old laptop and exchange the ram and see if that fixes the issue. (Ofcourse this is just a troubleshooting, not a fix)
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