A month ago I purchased a bundle Gigabyte Socket 1150 – Z87 – D3HP – I4770K – 8gb Kingston Ram – 1TB Seagate HD – 750 Watt Corsair Power Supply. Windows 7
Straight away after installing windows the PC would randomly freeze. The freeze happened in stages, it would start to slow the machine then over a 30 second period nothing would respond, yet you could still move the mouse. I did leave it for about 15 mins on one occasion to see if it would come back to life but the only thing I could do was a hard reset. When this occurs there is no pattern as to what programs are open etc.
Having checked the event viewer I noticed that shortly before the PC started to hang it was showing multiple Smart Errors in the log. At this point I placed an RMA back and the drive was swapped out. I then purchased a WD drive and installed windows on this. I got the exact same issue. The PC slowly died and again the event viewer often had Smart errors in minutes prior to the machine freezing. So this drive was also sent back
So I then purchased a Samsung 250 SSD. I installed windows on this and I am still getting the same issue with freezing. I am now getting many smart errors in the event viewer on the replacement WD drive but that is just used to store data. What is throwing me though is that when testing the drive(s) with HDTunePro. This software didn’t report any failures. The only time I have seen the failures have been in the event log.
Does it sounds like I have been unlucky with multiple drive failure or is it something more sinister that my Mobo is having trouble seeing the drives??????
Its interesting as some of the things i have tried have shown the PC to be rock stable but when ‘actually’ using it, it freezes.
Prime95 – Blend test – 24 hours. Pass
Memtest86+ 16 hours. 14 passes. Pass
Bios is up to date (F4). At present with zero Overclocking in case this was an issue.
All drives tested with HDTune Pro – pass
Changed Sata Cable.
Would you expect a failing HD that isn’t the system drive to cause the PC to hang in this way?
I have probably missed some information but if anyone could help that would be great.
Straight away after installing windows the PC would randomly freeze. The freeze happened in stages, it would start to slow the machine then over a 30 second period nothing would respond, yet you could still move the mouse. I did leave it for about 15 mins on one occasion to see if it would come back to life but the only thing I could do was a hard reset. When this occurs there is no pattern as to what programs are open etc.
Having checked the event viewer I noticed that shortly before the PC started to hang it was showing multiple Smart Errors in the log. At this point I placed an RMA back and the drive was swapped out. I then purchased a WD drive and installed windows on this. I got the exact same issue. The PC slowly died and again the event viewer often had Smart errors in minutes prior to the machine freezing. So this drive was also sent back
So I then purchased a Samsung 250 SSD. I installed windows on this and I am still getting the same issue with freezing. I am now getting many smart errors in the event viewer on the replacement WD drive but that is just used to store data. What is throwing me though is that when testing the drive(s) with HDTunePro. This software didn’t report any failures. The only time I have seen the failures have been in the event log.
Does it sounds like I have been unlucky with multiple drive failure or is it something more sinister that my Mobo is having trouble seeing the drives??????
Its interesting as some of the things i have tried have shown the PC to be rock stable but when ‘actually’ using it, it freezes.
Prime95 – Blend test – 24 hours. Pass
Memtest86+ 16 hours. 14 passes. Pass
Bios is up to date (F4). At present with zero Overclocking in case this was an issue.
All drives tested with HDTune Pro – pass
Changed Sata Cable.
Would you expect a failing HD that isn’t the system drive to cause the PC to hang in this way?
I have probably missed some information but if anyone could help that would be great.
