[SOLVED] HDD 100% While Gaming and Freezes

[Ahmed El Sherif]

So I'm gonna share with exactly what happened in the past coule of months so you may have a better understanding of the issue I'm facing.

My PC specs were:

• AMD FX 6300
• AMD R7 260x 2Gb
• 1 TB HDD WD
• Coonix power supply 600w

Everything was working fine back then, I used to play my games flawlessly

Earlier I had updated my GPU to AMD RX 570 8Gb, but my power supply didn't have a spare 6 pin connector as my GPU needed one 6 pin and one 8 pin connectors to run.

So, I purchased a SATA to 6 Pin adapter and I was able to run my GPU with no problems.

However, after making that upgrade I started to face weird issues while gaming, like when I play GTA V sometimes my cars engine's sound stops and at the end my PC just freezes.
Also when I play Rainbow Six Siege, my game would somtimes freez between rounds, when I wait a couple of mins it comes back to normal.

I thought it's a HDD issue, so I purchased a new Crusial SSD and installed windows 10 on it.

But my games are still installed on the old HDD, now I still face the same issues as before, but my PC doesn't freeze, just the game that I play freezes and after a couple of minutes of freezing it crashes.
When the game crashes I check the task manager to mintor the performance and I find that my old HDD is at full usages (100%) and I become unable to end my game's process from the task manager, even when I try to restart or shutdown the windows, it takes a lot of time to do that as I get kinda stuck at the windows loading screen that says "shutting down" or "restarting", it doesn't go back to normal until I force shutdown the PC and cut all the power from it and then turn it back on.

Now, I'm thinking of two possible causes of this issue, it's either HDD failure or my PSU doesn't distribute power efficiently after using the SATA to 6 Pin adapter for my GPU, in that case I would need to purchase another PSU.

I would appreciate it if you give me your opinion on this.

 

[mdd1963]

No one can be certain your Coonix PSU is up to the task for supplying adequate power to the RX570, and/or, that your mainboard is capable of supplying the 60-75 watts required through the PCI-e slot...

Either could cause hard freezes/lockups, game crashes, etc., while gaming...

But, it is generally accepted that if a PSU is so old that it does not have a 6/8 pin (often a 6+2 pin pairing)GPU output, it is often not good enough for GPUs that require one or two to run... Supplying it power from a little SATA pwr connector to 6+2 or 8 pin adapter does not sound good. Until you've tried a known good and adequate PSU, we won't know if that is the problem....but, it easily could be. (I'd do a search for whether or not your mainboard has any known issues with supplying adequate /consistent power thru the PCI-e slot, as well....

 

[Ahmed El Sherif]

No one can be certain your Coonix PSU is up to the task for supplying adequate power to the RX570, and/or, that your mainboard is capable of supplying the 60-75 watts required through the PCI-e slot...

Either could cause hard freezes/lockups, game crashes, etc., while gaming...

But, it is generally accepted that if a PSU is so old that it does not have a 6/8 pin (often a 6+2 pin pairing)GPU output, it is often not good enough for GPUs that require one or two to run... Supplying it power from a little SATA pwr connector to 6+2 or 8 pin adapter does not sound good. Until you've tried a known good and adequate PSU, we won't know if that is the problem....but, it easily could be. (I'd do a search for whether or not your mainboard has any known issues with supplying adequate /consistent power thru the PCI-e slot, as well....

Thanks for your reply @mdd1963 ,

I'll try to borrow a proper PSU from a friend and test if this problem still exists.

I was also thinking about installing one of my games that usually freezes while playing on my new SSD to see if it's a HDD issue, what do you think about this?