[SOLVED] Need Help - PC keeps crashing for a few seconds

ahsan.sid

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Nov 3, 2018
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Hi, I recently needed more storage in my PC so I got a Barracude 2TB hard drive to put into my system, after putting it in my PC would randomly crash completely, I took the hard drive out and my PC started working perfectly again. I then went and got it exchanged, thinking maybe it was just a faulty hard drive, I put the new hard drive in and it still freezes, this time only for a few seconds, but if im playing a game 5 seconds can mean a lot. I thought it can be a SATA cable issue, so I used a different cable and its still not working, I tried to update drivers but it says its already updated to the most recent one. I'm not really sure what else to do, Thanks.

I7-8700k
16GB RAM
750W power supply
RTX 2070
 
Solution
Look in Reliability History and Event Viewer for for error codes, warnings, and even informational entries that correspond to the random crashes.