- Dec 11, 2013
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As the title states I recently finished building a new PC for both work and personal use. With much help from you guys I got it built and up and running about 2 and a half months ago. I installed windows 7 home premium and Initially everything seemed to be running rather well. It has slowed somewhat after downloading various applications, games, programs and the like. But that is to be expected I assume.
But the real problem seems to be hardware related. Most likely Either Hard drive, Ram, Or video card related. Or quite possibly a combination of all three, (or something else for all I know). The most frequent issue I have been encountering is straight up freezing. There is rarely any build up or indication that the computer is being overloaded or that it is going to freeze. But out of the blue it does. Screen just literally freezes. I try several commands every times ctrl+alt+del and get no response. I've waited for quite a while before and it never really recovers. I eventually just have to manually shut off.
Second most frequently encountered issue typically comes around after initial start up. Sometimes "triggered" by me trying to open up a browser or other app. Sometimes it begins on its own. Say I try to open up explorer and it starts to lag. And then after a second it's nonresponsive and crashes. I get prompted with the "X program has stopped working" windows message. And then what follows seems to be a chain reaction of random programs crashing, (most of which I didn't think were even running). All with their very own windows "program has stopped working" prompt. Norton steam explorer adobe one after another my computer begins its descent into madness lol. I believe I once tried to recover from it after the programs stopped working. And It basically craped it pants and blue screened. I always have to restart manually or otherwise when programs stop working in this manner.
Lastly is what seems to be directly hard drive related. Sometimes when I try to download some form of content onto my computer. Be it A game a movie a song. A work related file or zip. I get a "failed to write onto disc" type error. It's happened multiple times but not so recently so I can't remember the exact wording of the error message. But that's basically it. And along the same line of things during initial boot I am often prompted with a "failed to read disc, press ctrl+alt+del to restart" type error. And I have of course checked to make sure I don't have an actual disk in my bay that it's trying to boot off of. And I never do so it's obviously talking about my hard disk lol.
And I'll also mention a concern with my video card. Which is an Asus R9 270x. Overall what should be a pretty powerful good card. And tbh it has done the job rather well for most games I've tried. I haven't played too many high intensity games but borderlands2 and bioshock infinite worked and ran pretty smoothly. There are exceptions though while playing somewhat lesser games I have low frame rates and at times glitchy graphics quality. But the game itself can usually be to blame for this. Among other factors. But when I bought it I did notice quite a few bad reviews all revolving around the drivers being defective. I'm a noob to this whole World of computers and gaming and what not. And to be perfectly honest I'm not even sure how to update the drivers or bios the right way. The best I could do was check on my computer for driver updates on all the various components and it didn't say they were out of date so . . I didn't bother with it much past that. The only reason I bought the card was because all the other makes of it at the time (not to mention the card I was originally set on) were out of stock. And I needed to get the parts bought before the year. So I decided to take a chance on it. I have also encountered twice now a complete graphical crash while browsing. Screen just bugs the hell out and statics with color like a broken television.
So that's all I can recall atm. If anyone had the patience to read all of what I wrote great thanks be to you. And if you could offer any help, any tests I could run. Any possible solutions, It would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you so much. And now i'll offer a complete components list for your scrutiny.
CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor
Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA
6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3
-2133 Memory
Hard drive: Western Digital Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM
Internal Hard Drive
Power supply: CORSAIR CXM series CX600M 600W
ATX12V v2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS
BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
Video card: Asus R9 270x
Optical drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD
Writer
Case: Corsair Carbide Series Black 300R Mid-Tower
Computer Case (CC-9011014-WW)
OS: Windows 7 home premium. 64 bit.
Please let me know if I forgot anything and I will get back to you with further information ASAP. Once again any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
But the real problem seems to be hardware related. Most likely Either Hard drive, Ram, Or video card related. Or quite possibly a combination of all three, (or something else for all I know). The most frequent issue I have been encountering is straight up freezing. There is rarely any build up or indication that the computer is being overloaded or that it is going to freeze. But out of the blue it does. Screen just literally freezes. I try several commands every times ctrl+alt+del and get no response. I've waited for quite a while before and it never really recovers. I eventually just have to manually shut off.
Second most frequently encountered issue typically comes around after initial start up. Sometimes "triggered" by me trying to open up a browser or other app. Sometimes it begins on its own. Say I try to open up explorer and it starts to lag. And then after a second it's nonresponsive and crashes. I get prompted with the "X program has stopped working" windows message. And then what follows seems to be a chain reaction of random programs crashing, (most of which I didn't think were even running). All with their very own windows "program has stopped working" prompt. Norton steam explorer adobe one after another my computer begins its descent into madness lol. I believe I once tried to recover from it after the programs stopped working. And It basically craped it pants and blue screened. I always have to restart manually or otherwise when programs stop working in this manner.
Lastly is what seems to be directly hard drive related. Sometimes when I try to download some form of content onto my computer. Be it A game a movie a song. A work related file or zip. I get a "failed to write onto disc" type error. It's happened multiple times but not so recently so I can't remember the exact wording of the error message. But that's basically it. And along the same line of things during initial boot I am often prompted with a "failed to read disc, press ctrl+alt+del to restart" type error. And I have of course checked to make sure I don't have an actual disk in my bay that it's trying to boot off of. And I never do so it's obviously talking about my hard disk lol.
And I'll also mention a concern with my video card. Which is an Asus R9 270x. Overall what should be a pretty powerful good card. And tbh it has done the job rather well for most games I've tried. I haven't played too many high intensity games but borderlands2 and bioshock infinite worked and ran pretty smoothly. There are exceptions though while playing somewhat lesser games I have low frame rates and at times glitchy graphics quality. But the game itself can usually be to blame for this. Among other factors. But when I bought it I did notice quite a few bad reviews all revolving around the drivers being defective. I'm a noob to this whole World of computers and gaming and what not. And to be perfectly honest I'm not even sure how to update the drivers or bios the right way. The best I could do was check on my computer for driver updates on all the various components and it didn't say they were out of date so . . I didn't bother with it much past that. The only reason I bought the card was because all the other makes of it at the time (not to mention the card I was originally set on) were out of stock. And I needed to get the parts bought before the year. So I decided to take a chance on it. I have also encountered twice now a complete graphical crash while browsing. Screen just bugs the hell out and statics with color like a broken television.
So that's all I can recall atm. If anyone had the patience to read all of what I wrote great thanks be to you. And if you could offer any help, any tests I could run. Any possible solutions, It would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you so much. And now i'll offer a complete components list for your scrutiny.
CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor
Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA
6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3
-2133 Memory
Hard drive: Western Digital Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM
Internal Hard Drive
Power supply: CORSAIR CXM series CX600M 600W
ATX12V v2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS
BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
Video card: Asus R9 270x
Optical drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD
Writer
Case: Corsair Carbide Series Black 300R Mid-Tower
Computer Case (CC-9011014-WW)
OS: Windows 7 home premium. 64 bit.
Please let me know if I forgot anything and I will get back to you with further information ASAP. Once again any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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