[SOLVED] Games crashing after adding a storage Hard Drive

[alexander2k]

Yesterday I decided to add one of my old hard drives to my main PC for some extra storage, so I cleared the hard drive, got it set up and working properly. But when I decided to play games later I booted up a game and started playing as usual while I watch podcasts on my other monitor but all of a sudden both the chrome browser and my game crashed together about 30 seconds in. Now all of my games on my pc crash when I boot them up and I have no idea why. Anything would help!

 

[USAFRet]

If you remove that old drive, do things work OK?

 

[alexander2k]

If you remove that old drive, do things work OK?

I tried removing the old drive and it didnt help so I reconnected it.

 

[USAFRet]

So what else changed?

You added this drive, then things went weird.

 

[alexander2k]

So what else changed?

You added this drive, then things went weird.

Yeah as soon as I added it all my games started crashing, wasnt doing it an hour before i installed the drive.

 

[alexander2k]

I figured it out. I had to change my ram file size to "system managed" instead of "none"

 

[USAFRet]

I figured it out. I had to change my ram file size to "system managed" instead of "none"

pagefile, not "RAM", right?

 

[alexander2k]

pagefile, not "RAM", right?

Yeah the pagefile, my bad.

 

[USAFRet]

Yeah the pagefile, my bad.

Right.
No pagefile can cause issues, as you've seen.