Routine blue screen of death after first boot, then OK.

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NO BSOD, but this morning the PC had at least three attempts at booting before succeeding enough that I could post this - the last reboot was triggered by me doing a hot restart when booting had hung at the Windows logo - without a dynamic circle.
 
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That rebooting followed on a deliberate shutdown (throwing the switch) last night when it took inordinately long to shutdown by itself.
 
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How new/old is the hard drive?, have you tried setting BIOS to default settings?. :)
 
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The HDD is an SSD - probably less than 3 years old. No I have not tried setting BIOS to default settings. What would I lose if I did ?
 
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Since I lost the mouse cursor again, I took that opportunity of a reboot, to tamper with the BIOS. I had not set overclocking, and am not aware of any RAM settings. However, I did set it to Optimised Defaults. It would not boot for lack of an operating system; so I reset the boot sequence to HDD rather than floppy. Not only that, but none of the connected HDDs show, which is probably because the SATA ports lost their AHCI settings.
 
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I wrote an untruth - BIOS DOES have Advanced Memory settings - which I've had no reason to alter. Resetting IDE to AHCI caused all my connected HDDs to once again appear. But so far I have had to reset the Master HDD as the boot medium - has NOT get self-chosen.
 
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SSD installed ? It has been connected all along - I do not know about installing an SSD.
What I meant was that if you have an older HDD and did you have a BSOD with that installed?. If you haven't had a BSOD for a while, is your problem solved now?. :)
 
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Time has told - after a relatively long delay, another BSOD this morning. I could, but have not yet, run the system continuously from another SSD.
 
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Try a different drive, that way you can narrow down the problem to the SSD if it is defective?. :)
 
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I do my routine weekly cloning tomorrow, and can then start using an other drive. Or maybe I should wait till I get another BSOD and have the presence of mind to note down the error code to send to you.
 

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