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    System instability, won't power on with GPU, blue screens, dual-channel issues, screen-tears/freeze during test

    UPDATE: I replaced the PSU to no effect. I realized that the problem was two-fold: 1) The evo 212 CPU cooler. If you stand the case upright, the cooler sits at a 90degree angle from the board and puts uneven pressure on the CPU causing issues with dual channel mode and random crashes. No...
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    System instability, won't power on with GPU, blue screens, dual-channel issues, screen-tears/freeze during test

    I'm kind worried that it might be a board issue, or a bent pin that I can't see. It weirds me out that I ran the processor diag tool 3 days ago with no issues, but get a reliable freeze now, and I don't know what has been causing, for the past several months all the blue screens on startup and...
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    System instability, won't power on with GPU, blue screens, dual-channel issues, screen-tears/freeze during test

    re: the memory, the board labels them in a funny way. Starting closest to the chip and going further, you have: DDR4_4 DDR4_2, DDR4_3, DDR4_1. They are currently, as you say, in the 2nd and 4th slots from the CPU. re: PSU, that's the prime candidate in my mind, though, as per the update, it...
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    System instability, won't power on with GPU, blue screens, dual-channel issues, screen-tears/freeze during test

    I've been having quite a few issues with my computer recently. : SPECS: i7 8700k z370 aorus gaming 5 2x8gb DDR4-3200 corsair Asus dual GTX1070 08g win10-64 installed on samsung ssd 850 evo 500gb corsair cx750m psu evo 212 cooler I built this from scratch, all new parts, except for some old...
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    Seagate HD failure (?) recovery possible?

    UPDATE: if I use the HD with the docking station, then turn on the docking station while in computer management -> disk management, the process will find an unlabelled 931 GB empty drive (correct size), but will need to refresh. If I refresh, the process freezes until I turn off the docking station.
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    Seagate HD failure (?) recovery possible?

    I use two harddrives, an intel SSD for my OS and programs I run often that utilize the disk a lot, and a Seagate Barracuda 1TB storage drive for things like documents/music/movies/non-intensive programs etc. About a week or so I started noticing some odd behaviour-- the red HD light would...
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    System Freezes, hard drive light on, odd diagnostics

    Works like a charm after updating the ssd firmware. Thanks a lot! I've updated the OP with results of diagnostics AFTER updating the firmware for comparison for people that have this issue in the future.
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    System Freezes, hard drive light on, odd diagnostics

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    System Freezes, hard drive light on, odd diagnostics

    EDIT: sorry for unintentional double post :( As the title says, I'm getting periodic freezes that last around 15 seconds or so on my windows7 machine where the hard drive light is on solidly. Checking event viewer I have tens of thousands of atapi errors, all "The driver detected a...
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