Curious about an error

[Hell Patrol]

So I'm just curious here. I've had this error twice now in the past two years, with two different GPU's at that.

 

I get a windows boot error that says "windows failed to start, a recent hardware or software change might be the issue". Then lists a few instructions about inserting the disc and selecting my language and hitting repair etc.

 

The only options are enter = continue and esc = exit. Each time the error has happened I've hit enter and my computer simply restarts normally.

 

However I was wondering if either option does anything different, (or if I should be hitting esc instead of enter, not that it seems to matter). Also if anyone has a clue what causes this to popup out of the blue.

 

I'm not worried, but I am curious.

[Naeaes]

Always skip that on first try. It's more likely that nothing is actually wrong and Windows is just getting a false positive on it's tests. It happens all the time.

Doing repairs, automated especially, on an OS that's not broken, can cause serious issues. Basically what the disk does is it goes though the Windows files, and reinstalls anything that it suspects to be failing. It is beneficial if a portion of windows is actually corrupted but can hurt if not.

 

"If rebooting fixes the problem, it wasn't a problem to begin with."