Hello and thank you for taking the time to review my inquiry.
The Symptoms:
A colleague of mine is experiencing some troubling symptoms with his work PC. The PC locks up constantly, extremely long load times and at times when dragging a window across the screen this results in a "ghost replication" of the window. There have been no crashes, no blue screens, no errors and no sounds that are abnormal coming from the case.
Rectification attempt:
In an attempt to cut costs (ironically) our company decided to install new RAM without running any tests first.. I wasn't brought up to speed until I was asked to order said RAM... Skipping ahead, I personally (and properly) installed the RAM stick. Now, I did not think it was the RAM from the start. While I was installing the RAM I made sure the case was clean, dust free, well kept and everything seemed in place. This brought the PC (a multi-tasking work PC....) up from 4 GB to 8GB which really should be the minimum by now for any PC.
Result:
For a day or two the PC worked flawlessly. Now it's experiencing the same symptoms again. In my head this sounds like the HDD beginning to fail, I've had this happen myself on my personal PC. I haven't had access to my colleagues PC to run a chkdsk so I wanted to ask for opinions here in the mean time. The HDD is some six or seven years old (time for an SSD IMO). I'm happy with getting a new HDD and transferring data over (despite how much there is) but I do worry it could be the OS being corrupt.
It's not the RAM, it may or may not be the HDD/OS... What are other options? Could it be the PSU beginning to fail? I don't believe it's the mobo though I refuse to rule anything I haven't checked out.
Thank you for any insight and opinions.
The Symptoms:
A colleague of mine is experiencing some troubling symptoms with his work PC. The PC locks up constantly, extremely long load times and at times when dragging a window across the screen this results in a "ghost replication" of the window. There have been no crashes, no blue screens, no errors and no sounds that are abnormal coming from the case.
Rectification attempt:
In an attempt to cut costs (ironically) our company decided to install new RAM without running any tests first.. I wasn't brought up to speed until I was asked to order said RAM... Skipping ahead, I personally (and properly) installed the RAM stick. Now, I did not think it was the RAM from the start. While I was installing the RAM I made sure the case was clean, dust free, well kept and everything seemed in place. This brought the PC (a multi-tasking work PC....) up from 4 GB to 8GB which really should be the minimum by now for any PC.
Result:
For a day or two the PC worked flawlessly. Now it's experiencing the same symptoms again. In my head this sounds like the HDD beginning to fail, I've had this happen myself on my personal PC. I haven't had access to my colleagues PC to run a chkdsk so I wanted to ask for opinions here in the mean time. The HDD is some six or seven years old (time for an SSD IMO). I'm happy with getting a new HDD and transferring data over (despite how much there is) but I do worry it could be the OS being corrupt.
It's not the RAM, it may or may not be the HDD/OS... What are other options? Could it be the PSU beginning to fail? I don't believe it's the mobo though I refuse to rule anything I haven't checked out.
Thank you for any insight and opinions.