PC restarted when I hit my PC with force by accident, first boot after that shows a random message on what was supposed to be F shortcuts on the motherboard

[Saply]

The title probably didn't make sense so i'll just explain it here.

I was playing TF2 and wanted to move my leg around to stretch it a bit after a long period of sitting. I accideantly hit my pc desk with force and my PC immediately shutdowned but restarted immediately after that.

Now on every startup, it's supposed to flash the brand of the motherboard (in my case, Gigabyte) with F shortcut keys on the bottom (F8 = BIOS and etc) but this wasn't the case during the restart. Instead, there was a string of text with a bunch of / and one of the words I noticed was "DRIVE" so it must be referring to the Hard Drive(s) (I have both a SSD and HDD in my build). I'm a bit worried by this, what does this mean? Are my drives just spontaneously failing? I couldn't read the entire message because it flashed for less than a second before booting to Windows 10.

I shut down my PC and turned it on again after a few minutes (could've restarted but eh). The string of text was no longer there, but it still haunts my mind.

My drives (sorry for not knowing the exact names and models):
A Sandisk SSD with 250GB capacity, installed Windows 10 on it and set it as the boot drive. Fairly new condition, only used it for a year after moving it from my old laptop.
An older Seagate Barracuda, this one has a white label on the HDD, i've read somewhere that this means that it's an older version of the drive since the newer ones have green labels instead of white, not completely sure about that though. Took this from an old PC that my brother no longer uses, 5400RPM speeds and 500GB capacity. Had this for a good few years now.
My motherboard is a Gigabyte H81M DS2 (I sure hope I got that right) btw.


Is there any way to check wether or not my drives are having a problem? Thanks.

[Omega]

Don't worry about it and try not to kick your desk anymore.

Originally posted by Saply:

Is there any way to check wether or not my drives are having a problem? Thanks.

Download and run Crystal Disk Info.

[LiMpY]

To calm your haunted mind, Unplug and replug all your sata connections.

[oobymach]

Was going to say loose cable, check all connections, push in with the wire not just the socket to firmly seat the cables. I remember the shock proof panasonic discman that you could hit lightly on one corner and it would turn off, if all your cables are connected properly it could be some faulty hardware.

You can check the smart status of the drive with a tool/app from the manufacturers website in most cases. It could be that you just hit it in the exact wrong way to trigger a restart.

[Saply]

Thanks for the tips everyone

Originally posted by oobymach:

Was going to say loose cable, check all connections, push in with the wire not just the socket to firmly seat the cables. I remember the shock proof panasonic discman that you could hit lightly on one corner and it would turn off, if all your cables are connected properly it could be some faulty hardware.

You can check the smart status of the drive with a tool/app from the manufacturers website in most cases. It could be that you just hit it in the exact wrong way to trigger a restart.

Actually, I do have a DVD Drive. Gonna check that out as well tomorrow