Hey,
Just looking for some quick opinions before i return my PC to the manufacturer. For the past few months it's been extremely flakey, random freezes, bsod, kernel errors.
It's most popular one is to freeze or bsod, then fail to detect the main hdd upon rebooting. Leaving PC for an hour normally results in it working again, until it decides to die at a random time later on. I'm fairly sure it's not the hard drive over heating, or the PSU being too heavily used. It's a 400W and not powering much. Motherboard seems ok, and the secondary hard drive seems ok. After the crashes it always still detects the secondary hard drive.
I'm thinking at the moment that it's the main hard drive failing, mainly due to the failure to be detected upon rebooting after crashing. There's no particular point where the drive crashes. The PC can be on for weeks or it can be on for 20mins. It can be gaming or sitting idle, i'll just come back and it's frozen. Along with the Kernel errors i suspect it's hardware failure on the primary 80gb sata hard drive.
PC is still covered by 3 years RTB Warranty and 1 years Parts which is still valid. Would you recommend trying to format the main drive and reinstalling windows to see if it fixes the problem or does it seem likely that the hard drive is on the way out?
Just looking for some quick opinions before i return my PC to the manufacturer. For the past few months it's been extremely flakey, random freezes, bsod, kernel errors.
It's most popular one is to freeze or bsod, then fail to detect the main hdd upon rebooting. Leaving PC for an hour normally results in it working again, until it decides to die at a random time later on. I'm fairly sure it's not the hard drive over heating, or the PSU being too heavily used. It's a 400W and not powering much. Motherboard seems ok, and the secondary hard drive seems ok. After the crashes it always still detects the secondary hard drive.
I'm thinking at the moment that it's the main hard drive failing, mainly due to the failure to be detected upon rebooting after crashing. There's no particular point where the drive crashes. The PC can be on for weeks or it can be on for 20mins. It can be gaming or sitting idle, i'll just come back and it's frozen. Along with the Kernel errors i suspect it's hardware failure on the primary 80gb sata hard drive.
PC is still covered by 3 years RTB Warranty and 1 years Parts which is still valid. Would you recommend trying to format the main drive and reinstalling windows to see if it fixes the problem or does it seem likely that the hard drive is on the way out?
