- Mar 14, 2021
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Hello! This is my first post on here.
Long story short: Everything was dandy for a while on my 4yo PC, until January, when I started getting freezes. They were short and rare, so I just stupidly shrugged them off. Then, over the months, I realized they were actually pretty common, one to three freezes a day, less than 2 seconds. And last month, the whole computer crashed (no BSOD, the computer restarted itself right after), that's when I started panicking a bit.
I first blamed myself for opening my computer and installing another brand new drive in it, thinking I must've tugged on some wires inside and screwed everything up. Then I asked an IRL if he had any idea what could possibly cause freezes, he instantly blamed my RAM and told me that I "absolutely" had to factory reset my computer to repair it.
I ran countless tests myself, taught myself how to handle stuff I've never used before, updated my GPU driver (which is always up to date anyway), reset the WinSock Catalog, turned off Fast Startup, downloaded process explorer, ran chkdsk on every single drives, checked them again manually, updated the BIOS, the list goes on... Everything basically told me "Nope, everything's fine." while my computer still froze every now and then no matter what I was doing. (It crashed a second time later, while I was away from the computer, with only google chrome open, it also restarted itself instantly).
The recurring error from Event Viewer was "The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR1, has a bad block." , while Reliability History named the freezes (?) as "Hardware error".
I even considered that, maybe, doing a factory reset was the only option... Until I downloaded CrystalDisk, which instantly warned me about this:
https://ibb.co/XW0DNDD
And for once, I actually got told that no, my computer isn't "all healthy". Thankfully, I have a backup of all my disks, always plugged in and backing up every hour.
All I want to know is, could this particular Drive be the cause of my freezes and 2 crashes? Hopefully it is, because I'm honestly fried from all the work I've been doing for the past 3 months trying to see what was wrong.
Thanks a lot! Sorry if this is incoherent, I'm exhausted lol.
Long story short: Everything was dandy for a while on my 4yo PC, until January, when I started getting freezes. They were short and rare, so I just stupidly shrugged them off. Then, over the months, I realized they were actually pretty common, one to three freezes a day, less than 2 seconds. And last month, the whole computer crashed (no BSOD, the computer restarted itself right after), that's when I started panicking a bit.
I first blamed myself for opening my computer and installing another brand new drive in it, thinking I must've tugged on some wires inside and screwed everything up. Then I asked an IRL if he had any idea what could possibly cause freezes, he instantly blamed my RAM and told me that I "absolutely" had to factory reset my computer to repair it.
I ran countless tests myself, taught myself how to handle stuff I've never used before, updated my GPU driver (which is always up to date anyway), reset the WinSock Catalog, turned off Fast Startup, downloaded process explorer, ran chkdsk on every single drives, checked them again manually, updated the BIOS, the list goes on... Everything basically told me "Nope, everything's fine." while my computer still froze every now and then no matter what I was doing. (It crashed a second time later, while I was away from the computer, with only google chrome open, it also restarted itself instantly).
The recurring error from Event Viewer was "The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR1, has a bad block." , while Reliability History named the freezes (?) as "Hardware error".
I even considered that, maybe, doing a factory reset was the only option... Until I downloaded CrystalDisk, which instantly warned me about this:
https://ibb.co/XW0DNDD
And for once, I actually got told that no, my computer isn't "all healthy". Thankfully, I have a backup of all my disks, always plugged in and backing up every hour.
All I want to know is, could this particular Drive be the cause of my freezes and 2 crashes? Hopefully it is, because I'm honestly fried from all the work I've been doing for the past 3 months trying to see what was wrong.
Thanks a lot! Sorry if this is incoherent, I'm exhausted lol.
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