New build, problems

Liam*

Liam*

Liam*

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Hi all I built my first PC on Saturday and have been playing games fine and everything was fast and fine for the past 3 days. However this morning I booted it up to down load skyrim and again everything was fine. Until about 1.45 hrs into the download everything on my PC was extremely slow and when it shut it down it would up just boot up without me saying so. And after leaving it for 15mins when I booted it up again it was still very slow and laggy?

Spec
Intel i5 4670k
Gigabyte g1.sniper z87
2x4gb teamgroup Vulcan orange ram
Cooler master 212 CPU cooler
Superflower golden green 650 w psu
Corsair carbide 300r windowed
Msi Radeon r9 280x
Windows 8.1
Samsung evo 840 120g SSD
2tb seagate barracuda hard drive
And a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
 
I ve read (so I do it) that disconnecting the HDD while installing the OS to the SSD will help prevent any random files being written to the HDD during the installation.
 
stulid said:
I ve read (so I do it) that disconnecting the HDD while installing the OS to the SSD will help prevent any random files being written to the HDD during the installation.
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Oh well that's not great news then is there anything I can do to alter this now?
 
stulid said:
Reinstall.

Doesn't take that long to do and as its a new build you cant have got too many games etc installed yet?
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A few but would rather get it running smooth if it means deleting some. How do I go about reinstalling (sorry not the best with pcs at the moment)
 
stulid said:
Reinstall.

Doesn't take that long to do and as its a new build you cant have got too many games etc installed yet?
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If you have games, copy them onto the drive you're about to take out, and you can use a couple tricks so you don't have to re-install them.

Steam:

Copy the SteamApps folder which will include your game installs, when you re-install steam, copy this folder over the other, and then verify the game cache when you load steam up by right clicking the game and going into properties.

Origin:

Little trickier, copy out the Origin Games folder, re-install Origin and start the download of the game, let it download 30mb or so of data, then exit origin without stopping the download. Copy the game files over where it started installing the game & re-open Origin, it will then hit 100% downloaded and begin installing the game.

Or if you have no games installed, I just wrote that for nothing. :p
 
I'm also trying to shut it down but it keeps restarting itself, which is quite annoying. :mad:

Also just got a alert saying it's failing to connect to a windows service?
 
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Liam* said:
2x4gb teamgroup Vulcan orange ram
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Mmmm, I built a system with TeamGroup RAM recently. First memory I`ve had trouble with in a few years (intermittent failure to boot - PC switch on, bleeps a few times, restarts itself, bleeps a few times.........).

Might be worth testing the system with just one of the sticks of RAM. If you still have the problem, test the other stick. I'm not suggesting that the memory is at fault, but it's a possibility.
 
Think I've fixed it now just pressed the reset button on the case now running as smooth as before and skyrim is downloading at a fast rate
 
Resetting the system may solve the problem for now, but I'd suggest that the problem will return. If it does, it's time to start trying to pin down the problem.
 
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