PC regularly freezes for a few seconds at a time (HDD Related?)

[bgbugighb]

So my computer has been freezing every few hours for the past few weeks, it will only freeze for a second or 2 at a time. Audio will stop and videos will kinda pause themselves, games I'm playing speed up to catch up to real time.

Hard drive scans built into windows 10 say there is no problem with my hard drive, but when the PC freezes, the hard drive makes sounds as if it is just starting up. You can hear it begin to spin faster and make some noises.

For reference windows 10 is installed onto my ssd.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can you show screenshot from HDtune health?

 

[bgbugighb]

Can you show screenshot from HDtune health?

https://imgur.com/a/p0P7EgR

here is an imgur, I havent used HDTune before so let me know if this will do.

Thankyou very much

 

[SkyNetRising]

Why did you crop the screenshot? Can't see model name, temperature.
Rest of it seems fine though.

 

[bgbugighb]

Why did you crop the screenshot? Can't see model name, temperature.
Rest of it seems fine though.

https://imgur.com/a/Bwxd0vN

Here is one without the crop, if not the HDD. Do you have an idea of what the problem may be, because I am stumped

 

[SkyNetRising]

HDtune doesn't show any problem on this drive.
Are there any other drives in the system?

Try replacing HDD cables (power and data).

 

[dshort01]

Temperature is always a potential issue. Too, I find the Intel Speed step can interfere too. If your bios has this I would suggest disabling it. Otherwise, it is almost always a rogue process that is running. Many potential reasons here.

 

[Solandri]

but when the PC freezes, the hard drive makes sounds as if it is just starting up. You can hear it begin to spin faster and make some noises.

Your hard drive is going to sleep (spinning down) to conserve power. It takes a few seconds to spin up. Normally this only causes a pause in the program accessing the HDD. But if the OS is accessing it for something system-critical (like swapping memory to/from a pagefile), it will freeze everything until it gets the data it needs from the HDD.

You can change the HDD sleep timer (make it longer so it happens less frequently) or disable it entirely in your power plan profile. Better yet, get a SSD and put your OS and programs on that. Use the HDD only to store data, never the pagefile.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/prevent-hard-drive-going-sleep-windows

 

[bgbugighb]

but when the PC freezes, the hard drive makes sounds as if it is just starting up. You can hear it begin to spin faster and make some noises.

Your hard drive is going to sleep (spinning down) to conserve power. It takes a few seconds to spin up. Normally this only causes a pause in the program accessing the HDD. But if the OS is accessing it for something system-critical (like swapping memory to/from a pagefile), it will freeze everything until it gets the data it needs from the HDD.

You can change the HDD sleep timer (make it longer so it happens less frequently) or disable it entirely in your power plan profile. Better yet, get a SSD and put your OS and programs on that. Use the HDD only to store data, never the pagefile.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/prevent-hard-drive-going-sleep-windows

My OS is on my ssd, how do i make it so the HDD doesnt store a pagefile

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?
Page file may not necessary be located on HDD (unless you specifically configured it to be there).

 

[bgbugighb]

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?
Page file may not necessary be located on HDD (unless you specifically configured it to be there).

https://imgur.com/a/Yzsw0J8

Here is disk management

 

[SkyNetRising]

You can see it yourself. Pagefile is located on C: only.

 

[bgbugighb]

You can see it yourself. Pagefile is located on C: only.

So the pagefile issue described above is not relevant to me I assume, I'm still unsure as to why the HDD spins up after a freeze then

 

[SkyNetRising]

Did you try the suggested solution for disabling HDD going to sleep?