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gogodr · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:15 pm Post subject: Now and then Hard freezes

I had this for a while already (( don't really remember if I had it since when I first built my PC )) sometimes the PC just hard freezes for a couple of seconds.

any idea on what could be causing it or where should I look to diagnose ?

Dark Byte · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:21 pm Post subject:

Running any drm protected games at the time of those freezes?

anyhow, do you hear a whizzing sound or something spinning up slowly when it's frozen? Or some ticks? If so, it could be a harddisk that was asleep and something decided to access that harddisk. (And add to that an aging harddisk getting some diskfaults will hog the system until it successfully initializes)

gogodr · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:25 pm Post subject:

Hero · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:46 pm Post subject:

Sounds like a graphic problem, but at the same time its more likely that hard disk. Replace it.

Dark Byte · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:48 pm Post subject:

yeah, that disk is about to die. When windows puts it to sleep it has trouble waking up and thus hogs the system when windows does it's periodical system check/maintenance

you can probably prevent the freezes if you configure the power maintenance to never let the harddisks go to sleep, but I recommend you start copying as much important data from that disk to another one and only use it for the most useless data. Or just buy a new one.

(one of my harddisks did that a while back and eventually just completly died with 2GB of bad sectors near the start)

gogodr · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:58 pm Post subject:

it was a cheap 1TB disk, I'll just buy another one.

for the time being I just changed the settings to never turn off the hard disks (( it was on 20 minutes ))

lets see if that fixes it. if it does then I'll buy a new disk

-- no freezes so far. I think that was it. thanks.