My computer has a primary SSD and a secondary HDD.
It started hanging when trying to access my secondary HDD where windows is not installed. I've had problems where HDDs have died before, so I tried replacing it (twice), so a failing HDD is pretty much out of the question. RAID and CHKDSK all said my HDDs were fine.
So I tried replacing my PSU in case it was faulty and maybe not supplying enough energy for the disks to spin properly, but it didn't work either.
And now, I've somehow managed to detect my PC failing to access the main SSD. I used a bootable Ubuntu USB and the responses were slow too, so it's probably not Windows failing. The way I detected the particular way the access time was slow was using the "benchmark partition" from the gnome disks utility: when it goes normally, it accesses the drive up to 100 times to check writing and reading speed and all data points are close to each other. However, when accessing my drives, even the new ones, it randomly drops to zero speed for unknown reasons and it stops performing the benchmark for a while.
Is it possible for my CPU to be failing? Or is it the motherboard? I've tried replacing the cables and swapped the position of the drives to check if that's the cause of the issue but to no avail.
Pictures of the benchmarks using hdtunepro:
SSD
View: https://i.stack.imgur.com/tUmnT.jpg
HDD
View: https://i.stack.imgur.com/uZfuk.png
Computer specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3100 3.6GHz
Motherboard: B450M PRO-VDH MAX (MS-7A38)
GPU: AMD RX 5500 XT 8GB
SSD: Kingston 500 GB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB
PSU: Cooler Master MasterWatt 650 EU
It started hanging when trying to access my secondary HDD where windows is not installed. I've had problems where HDDs have died before, so I tried replacing it (twice), so a failing HDD is pretty much out of the question. RAID and CHKDSK all said my HDDs were fine.
So I tried replacing my PSU in case it was faulty and maybe not supplying enough energy for the disks to spin properly, but it didn't work either.
And now, I've somehow managed to detect my PC failing to access the main SSD. I used a bootable Ubuntu USB and the responses were slow too, so it's probably not Windows failing. The way I detected the particular way the access time was slow was using the "benchmark partition" from the gnome disks utility: when it goes normally, it accesses the drive up to 100 times to check writing and reading speed and all data points are close to each other. However, when accessing my drives, even the new ones, it randomly drops to zero speed for unknown reasons and it stops performing the benchmark for a while.
Is it possible for my CPU to be failing? Or is it the motherboard? I've tried replacing the cables and swapped the position of the drives to check if that's the cause of the issue but to no avail.
Pictures of the benchmarks using hdtunepro:
SSD
View: https://i.stack.imgur.com/tUmnT.jpg
HDD
View: https://i.stack.imgur.com/uZfuk.png
Computer specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3100 3.6GHz
Motherboard: B450M PRO-VDH MAX (MS-7A38)
GPU: AMD RX 5500 XT 8GB
SSD: Kingston 500 GB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB
PSU: Cooler Master MasterWatt 650 EU