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I got a new PC back around April and it working fine until I left the dorm at the end of the semester to spend the summer at my parents.
It started freezing up and running slow. I first noticed this with Skyrim (which I had logged over 70 problem free hours with at college). I would freeze up within 5 minutes of playing and I'd hear a whirring sound that I thought was coming from the hard drive. Eventually this extended to nearly everything. I got constant problems with Google Chrome (which has known issues with Windows 7) and Netflix crashing.
My PC was also having trouble booting, it wouldn't recognize the HD (I think) and I'd have to switch the boot order around or restart multiple times to get it to successfully boot.
I thought it was a hard drive problem, so I replaced the HD, but I'm still having the same issues.
I'm thinking now that it might be a motherboard problem, but I know I need to test my RAM first to see if there is a problem with that.
Not a tech man myself, but do you still have the receipt or 1 year warranty (UK thing, not sure about America)? Take it back and get a refund.
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kronk wrote:The noise might be the fan failing. If it does, your processor will overheat and your computer will run like crap.
Both my fans are working fine. The interior is nice and cool. It makes that noise when it fails to boot or the PC freezes like its attempting to read the HD and failing. It seems like there is a connection misfiring somehow.
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Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:Not a tech man myself, but do you still have the receipt or 1 year warranty (UK thing, not sure about America)? Take it back and get a refund.
I'm past the 30day refund. I'd have to contact tech support, test parts, and if they fail ship them back to the maker and wait for new ones.
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With your computer running, open up the properties of your hard drive. Click to schedule or do a check disc. Let it run. If it errors, I'm sorry your hard drive is dying, back up your crap and find a replacement.
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Lt. Coldfire wrote:Seems to me that you should be refereeing and handing out red cards--like a boss.
If you replaced the hard drive once already, then I do not believe you'd be getting the same noise. Two hard drives failing in a row, in the same way, and so quickly would be pretty rare.
Fan bearings can gum up and start to make noise while still putting out air. Something you can actually do is lightly tap the center of the fan (mind the blades) and see if the pitch of the noise changes. You can also give them a flick while the computer is off to see if they spin freely. They should spin easily, and then kind of rock back into place after they're done moving. Of course, I don't think those are your issue either. Out of curiosity, did you check the fan on the video card also?
The biggest problem here is that there's not really anything else that could be making noise. There's only a couple other things I can think of, and they're a long shot.
When you replaced the hard drive, did you also replace the cabling? You might have a broken wire in your cabling that is causing the hard drive to spin at strange intervals, generating odd noises and probably causing all kinds of CRC errors that would force additional disk reads (which would slow things down). Otherwise, I'd suggest maybe you're browning out your system due to having too small of a power supply, but that's a long shot also, especially when it was running stable for so long.
Other than the above, I'd say next step is to be 100% sure that the noise you're hearing isn't coming from the hard drive. I can speculate further at that point.
kronk wrote:The noise might be the fan failing. If it does, your processor will overheat and your computer will run like crap.
Both my fans are working fine. The interior is nice and cool. It makes that noise when it fails to boot or the PC freezes like its attempting to read the HD and failing. It seems like there is a connection misfiring somehow.
You need to reconsecrate your machine spirit, sounds like your purity seals are going bad.
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Oh, and to test the RAM, I recommend a piece of software called memtest86+. You have to install it then you can create a bootable CD from it and then run the CD, but it's the best thing out there. Note that this takes quite a while to run. I wouldn't actually run it past the 6th or 7th pass though. If you're going to fail, you'll have failed by then.
AegisGrimm wrote:You need to reconsecrate your machine spirit, sounds like your purity seals are going bad.
....Or you haven't prayed properly.
Very unhelpful, but it wins the thread anyway.
Still if you bring your computer to Dakka to fix, expect TechPriest mumbo jumbo.
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have you tried ctrl+alt+delete or turning it on then off again? I would also try yelling, shouting and if those dont work then sobbing in a corner till the problem goes away
anyway, you said you left it in your dorm, did anyone else have a play with it while you were away? if so the crashing might be down to the result of your mates downloading things they shouldnt
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Amaya wrote:I got a new PC back around April and it working fine until I left the dorm at the end of the semester to spend the summer at my parents.
It started freezing up and running slow. I first noticed this with Skyrim (which I had logged over 70 problem free hours with at college). I would freeze up within 5 minutes of playing and I'd hear a whirring sound that I thought was coming from the hard drive. Eventually this extended to nearly everything. I got constant problems with Google Chrome (which has known issues with Windows 7) and Netflix crashing.
My PC was also having trouble booting, it wouldn't recognize the HD (I think) and I'd have to switch the boot order around or restart multiple times to get it to successfully boot. I thought it was a hard drive problem, so I replaced the HD, but I'm still having the same issues.
I'm thinking now that it might be a motherboard problem, but I know I need to test my RAM first to see if there is a problem with that.
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Monster Rain wrote:I will ease this machine's pain.
What you need is a new computer.
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DPBellathrom wrote:have you tried ctrl+alt+delete or turning it on then off again? I would also try yelling, shouting and if those dont work then sobbing in a corner till the problem goes away
anyway, you said you left it in your dorm, did anyone else have a play with it while you were away? if so the crashing might be down to the result of your mates downloading things they shouldnt
Do people not lock their computers when they're not using them?
Amaya wrote:Do people not lock their computers when they're not using them?
I used Linux exclusively in college. The couple people who actually knew how to use my computer also knew that I liked to keep a keylogger running when I walked away from my computer.
Could you describe the whirring sound in any more detail? Also, I would recommend running Check Disk (aka error checking) on the drive if you haven't already done so. you can enable this by right clicking on your root drive in Computer (labeled C:\ by default). Once there right click on the drive and select Properties, then the Tools tab. The first option available should be error checking. I would select both options (Automatically fix file system errors, and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors. This will most likely require your computer to reboot and will begin the Check Disk utility before loading windows. I may be confusing this with XP, as it has been ~1 month since I last had to do this at work on a workstation.
Reply with results if you follow the above steps please.
d-usa wrote:Trying to fix your computer on Dakka is kind of like this: (snip)
Truly. No offense meant to the OP, but the computer advice I've seen on Dakka has ever ranged from "bad" to "laughable" with the median being "unhelpful".
d-usa wrote:Trying to fix your computer on Dakka is kind of like this: (snip)
Truly. No offense meant to the OP, but the computer advice I've seen on Dakka has ever ranged from "bad" to "laughable" with the median being "unhelpful".
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