PC randomly freezing..

benny90125

benny90125

benny90125

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Hey, since past few days my PC keeps randomly freezing for a second or two.

Any idea what's causing this, i downloaded SeaTools and both my HDD's tested fine for the basic tests.
 
I can still move the mouse, just freezes and then goes back to normal, opened Task Manager and when it happens it doesn't spike, just stays at what it was.
 
Also I notice it most when watching something on VLC media player, freezes randomly but I also noticed that sometimes it stops doing it after 10 or so minutes and is fine for the rest of the film/program until I play something else.
 
CPU is running at about 28-30 idle and 40ish when playing a game, I've also noticed it's got progressively worse today, yesterday it only froze when watching films/programs, and now it's freezing in games/internet browser too.
 
So after reinstalling Window's it's still happening, I ran HD Tune Pro and seems my HDD is failing, so time to back up some stuff and use my other drive for Window's instead.
 
Anyone able to tell me if this is what is causing the problem?

HD Tune Pro: Maxtor 6Y200M0 Health

ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
(03) Spin Up Time 181 172 63 20215 ok
(04) Start/Stop Count 253 253 0 1368 ok
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 253 252 63 0 ok
(06) Read Channel Margin 253 253 100 0 ok
(07) Seek Error Rate 253 252 0 0 ok
(08) Seek Time Performance 245 230 187 51128 ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 124 124 0 59271 ok
(0A) Spin Retry Count 253 252 157 0 ok
(0B) Calibration Retry Count 253 252 223 0 ok
(0C) Power Cycle Count 248 248 0 2089 ok
(C0) Unsafe Shutdown Count 253 253 0 0 ok
(C1) Load Cycle Count 253 253 0 0 ok
(C2) Temperature 253 253 0 45 ok
(C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 253 252 0 2788 ok
(C4) Reallocated Event Count 249 249 0 4 warning
(C5) Current Pending Sector 253 252 0 0 ok
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 253 174 0 0 ok
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 199 199 0 0 ok
(C8) Write Error Rate 253 252 0 0 ok
(C9) Soft Read Error Rate 253 252 0 84 ok
(CA) Data Address Marker errors 253 234 0 0 ok
(CB) Run Out Cancel 253 252 180 0 ok
(CC) Soft ECC Correction 253 252 0 0 ok
(CD) Thermal Asperity Rate 253 252 0 0 ok
(CF) Spin High Current 253 252 0 0 ok
(D0) Spin Buzz 253 252 0 0 ok
(D1) Offline Seek Performance 201 199 0 0 ok
(63) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 ok
(64) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 ok
(65) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 ok

Health Status : warning
 
I was using it as my boot drive as I use windows xp and my other drive is a Sata drive.

Can't install xp on my Sata drive and now I'm getting an error when trying to install saying no hard drive detected... So ATM I'm kinda screwed :s
 
Ah ok well that kinda leaves me with nothing after the few days. Don't have any money ATM to buy windows 7 or an IDE drive. Anyway to make it so I can install XP on a Sata drive?
 
Just thought I'd update, I removed the HDD and it seems it was the problem, also my CPU is idling at about 20 now, my other HDD and GPU is also idling a lot lower, seems the HDD was also heating up everything inside, it was running about 45-50. So overall not too bad, just need a new HDD and Windows 7 now lol
 
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