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Blitzkriegs · 01-27-2008, 09:20 PM

Hello,

For about the last month my computer has been randomly locking up at any given time. Sometimes, it would freeze right when the computer finished startup or even during windows loading and sometimes it would freeze after hours of use. I couldn't figure out what it was so i tested the ram with memtest86 and all 4 sticks passed. Next, i turned off all overclocks, unplugged all extra PCI cards, unplugged dvd drive just to keep the system as bare as possible but still, the computer would randomly freeze. Eventually, i took out my current hard drive (300GB) and put in an 80GB and installed XP on it instead of Vista. Everything ran fine for the 3 days that i used XP and i didnt get any lockups so i decided to format the 300GB in order to get rid of any software that may have been causing it. After it was formated, i got my usual programs loaded up (office, wow, itunes etc) and it ran well for about a day and then the lockups started again.

I cant figure out what causing this problem but im starting to think that something is just wrong with the 300GB drive. Does this sound like a harddrive issue? I defragmented the harddrive recently and it took a LONG time even though its a fresh install and then i told it to do chkdsk on startup and it kept freezing during the file verification period. finally i got the disk to load without doing chkdsk and thats where i am now but im not really sure where to go from here.

01-27-2008, 09:20 PM	#1 (permalink)
Blitzkriegs Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 11 OS: Vista 64bit	Computer Lockups Due to Harddrive? Hello, For about the last month my computer has been randomly locking up at any given time. Sometimes, it would freeze right when the computer finished startup or even during windows loading and sometimes it would freeze after hours of use. I couldn't figure out what it was so i tested the ram with memtest86 and all 4 sticks passed. Next, i turned off all overclocks, unplugged all extra PCI cards, unplugged dvd drive just to keep the system as bare as possible but still, the computer would randomly freeze. Eventually, i took out my current hard drive (300GB) and put in an 80GB and installed XP on it instead of Vista. Everything ran fine for the 3 days that i used XP and i didnt get any lockups so i decided to format the 300GB in order to get rid of any software that may have been causing it. After it was formated, i got my usual programs loaded up (office, wow, itunes etc) and it ran well for about a day and then the lockups started again. I cant figure out what causing this problem but im starting to think that something is just wrong with the 300GB drive. Does this sound like a harddrive issue? I defragmented the harddrive recently and it took a LONG time even though its a fresh install and then i told it to do chkdsk on startup and it kept freezing during the file verification period. finally i got the disk to load without doing chkdsk and thats where i am now but im not really sure where to go from here.