Troubleshooting advice

[Thanos.m]

Hi everyone,
I'm new here so I hope I'm in the right place to ask for some help.
I bought this PC a little while ago
It has a core2 quad Q6600
An asus P5N-E SLI
4x1gb sticks of ram
Nvidia Geforce 9500gt
A crucial SSD now been replaced with a sandisk
And running windows 10
The PC started experiencing what I would describe as SSD failure symptoms it was slow it would crash freeze blue screens not saving up settings.
I initially tried reinstalling windows 10 via many different ways USB stick DVD and both early and late copies of win 10 but I kept having the same issues.
I then replaced the SSD
The Sata cables
Tried windows 7 again the issues now mainly the PC would freeze
I've tried flashing the BIOS changing it to default settings to no avail
I ran windows memory diagnostic and it found no issues I tried removing all the sticks of ram and tested the PC with one at the time again the issue.
I've tried disconnecting everything but the graphic cards and SSD and once again same issue
I connected up both SSDs to my laptop and run checkdisk just in case I had a second SSD failing but both seemed to check ok.
Lastly even when I managed to get windows to momentarily run "stable" the PC seemed very slow I know it's an old machine but I had few Core2 machines in the past nothing was this slow especially with an ssd
Any suggestions would be welcomed !
Thanks you!

 

[mickyflinn]

Hi.
Is everything set to stock values not overclocked ?

Have you ran a speed test on the drive , ry Crystal disk Mark

Are all drivers up to date

4gb of ram is very little is this being used up and then crashing.

Download and run memtest to check your ram.

It could d be malware on your computer , download malware bytes and remember to back up before deleting any malware.

Sometimes a fresh install of Windows can solve a lot of issues.

 

[Thanos.m]

Hi.
Is everything set to stock values not overclocked ?

Have you ran a speed test on the drive , ry Crystal disk Mark

Are all drivers up to date

4gb of ram is very little is this being used up and then crashing.

Download and run memtest to check your ram.

It could d be malware on your computer , download malware bytes and remember to back up before deleting any malware.

Sometimes a fresh install of Windows can solve a lot of issues.

Hi,
Thanks for the reply
I ran stress and stability tests everything seems to pass when I try each component individually but if I try a full bench test the PC will freeze so they haven't been much help.
I have ran windows memory diagnostic and the report said no faults detected
I don't think there is chance of a malware with 2 different SSDs one brand new out of the box and multiple formats and fresh installations of windows.
I know 4gb is not much but we are talking about fresh windows installations with nothing installed on the PC
I don't think low ram would cause the PC to freeze to the point you gave to pull the plug

 

[mickyflinn]

Hi,
Thanks for the reply
I ran stress and stability tests everything seems to pass when I try each component individually but if I try a full bench test the PC will freeze so they haven't been much help.
I have ran windows memory diagnostic and the report said no faults detected
I don't think there is chance of a malware with 2 different SSDs one brand new out of the box and multiple formats and fresh installations of windows.
I know 4gb is not much but we are talking about fresh windows installations with nothing installed on the PC
I don't think low ram would cause the PC to freeze to the point you gave to pull the plug

You've ruled a lot of things out but I would sugest you try memtest it's much better than the windows tool.

Have you checked to see how much available memmory is allocated because Windows virtual memmory. You say you don't think it's this but you have to rule things out.

Do you have any spare parts to try , gpu, psu ,etc.

 

[Thanos.m]

You've ruled a lot of things out but I would sugest you try memtest it's much better than the windows tool.

Have you checked to see how much available memmory is allocated because Windows virtual memmory. You say you don't think it's this but you have to rule things out.

Do you have any spare parts to try , gpu, psu ,etc.

Okay I will run memtest and report back no unfortunately i don't have any spares I'm afraid

 

[EsaT]

Hope you didn't pay much:
That CPU is 14 years old model, so who knows what parts aren't worn by age in that PC.

 

[Thanos.m]

Memtest seems to not be finding any faults.
And I paid £19 for the entire PC so is all good I'm fully aware how old is the CPU I had Core2s when they were new I bought this PC to basically put a large screen and use it for home office tasks so I thought a core2quad with an ssd would still be adequate for the kind of use I wanted out of it i guess the question now is it worth trying to fix this thing or do I just cut my losses here

 

[mickyflinn]

Memtest seems to not be finding any faults.
And I paid £19 for the entire PC so is all good I'm fully aware how old is the CPU I had Core2s when they were new I bought this PC to basically put a large screen and use it for home office tasks so I thought a core2quad with an ssd would still be adequate for the kind of use I wanted out of it i guess the question now is it worth trying to fix this thing or do I just cut my losses here

If you can find another £19 pc similar spec you would also have spare parts.