Recently I purchased a new hard drive, Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 7200RPM drive in replacement of my old WD Green drive that was dying. I've installed Windows 7 Home Prem without any problems with the hard drive. Once i got into the desktop, I spent the rest of the day updating the computer to the latest updates, all successful. Once i installed steam then css played maybe about an hour or 2, I hear my hard drive make a slight noise. To me it sounded like a short grinding noise, it wasn't loud either. Then about 5-10 seconds after the noise my game would hang/freeze then regain itself. I didn't want to take a chance so i quickly stopped the game and restarted my computer. After my computer restarted i downloaded WD Data Lifeguard for windows and ran both the quick scan and the extended scan, both passing with the hard drive making no grinding noise. After that i ran a chkdsk scan, restarted and passed with absolutely no bad sectors or errors. I'm at a lost for what the problem could be.
My Build:
Asus M4A87TD/USB3
AMD Phenom IIx6 Thuban 2.8GHz
Corsair Vengeance 8GB
eVGA GTX 550Ti 2GB GDDR5
RaidMax RX-730ss 730W PSU
WD Caviar Blue 500GB 7200RPM
Voltage 0 10.18 Volts [0xCC] (+12V)
Voltage 1 4.30 Volts [0xCD] (+5V)
Voltage 2 1.39 Volts [0x74] (CPU VCORE)
Voltage 3 1.63 Volts [0x88] (VIN3)
Voltage 4 1.73 Volts [0x90] (VIN4)
Voltage 5 2.02 Volts [0x87] (+3.3V)
Voltage 6 1.86 Volts [0x9B] (VIN6)
Voltage 7 1.54 Volts [0x80] (VIN7)
Voltage 8 1.72 Volts [0x8F] (VIN8)
Temperature 0 34°C (93°F) [0x22] (CPU)
Temperature 1 30°C (86°F) [0x1E] (Mainboard)
GPU Idle 30-35°C @Load 60-65°C
CPU Idle 33-35°C @Load 50-60°C
DRAM Voltage 1.5v, Timing 9-9-9-24
I don't believe my computer is overheating though. I used to be able to play BF3 without any problems with max graphic settings and run perfectly smooth.(with my old hard drive)
Got my psu awhile ago now. Installed wired everything I needed. Tested it out with Counter Strike source, and leagues of legend. Gonna do some more tests later, but so far it's working perfectly. I'll update this post if it happens again.
Great why not mark this solved in the first post under "Thread Tools" in the first post.
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