PC crashes when I kick it

[badass]

My guess is a bad earth somewhere. If an OS loses access to a disk for a bit, it just logs an error and tries again.

[Queelis]

This coming from my medical studies: you're all suggesting treatment for the symptoms, not the cause.

In other words: don't kick it!

[Pob255]

This coming from my medical studies: you're all suggesting treatment for the symptoms, not the cause.

You right, there's only one solution!

Jim I hate to break this to you but you're going to have to have your legs amputated, you might be able to get away with below the knee but I think above the knee as close to the hips as possible just to be safe.

[jim]

Damn. That's the end of my burgeoning football career then

[Pob255]

Damn. That's the end of my burgeoning football career then

Ahhh now the pieces are falling into place, you're not supposed to use your pc as a practice ball.

[Antagram]

I would go along with hard drive cable, but check Event Viewer for error messages.

I suffered occasional hangs (not from knocking case) after months of no issues, using the motherboard provided cables that didn't include a catch.

The eventual hard lock would kill Windows and required reinstall. This happened at least twice but at 6 month intervals, or more.

Replaced S-ATA cable for hard drive with one with metal catches, and not had problem since. Think cable was working lose from motherboard connection instead of hard drive.

Had messages like this in Event Viewer Systems log.

+ System 

  - Provider 

   [ Name]  iaStor 
 
  - EventID 9 

   [ Qualifiers]  49156 
 
   Level 2 
 
   Task 0 
 
   Keywords 0x80000000000000 
 
  - TimeCreated 

   [ SystemTime]  2009-08-31T09:39:40.576Z 
 
   EventRecordID 42594 
 
   Channel System 
 
   Computer Computer 
 
   Security 
 

- EventData 

   \Device\Ide\iaStor0 
   0F0005000100000000000000090004C00100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Binary data:


In Words

0000: 0005000F 00000001 00000000 C0040009 
0008: 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 
0010: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00 


In Bytes

0000: 0F 00 05 00 01 00 00 00   ........
0008: 00 00 00 00 09 00 04 C0   .......À
0010: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 00            .....

[jim]

Can't find any errors from the shutdown, but did find one after the reboot that claimed C:\ was corrupted. Might be onto something there.