I have a desktop I build about 3 years ago, it was built with a 75GB 10,000 RPM raptor HDD.
I have been having issues with the computer locking up and freezing to the point where you cant do the "Ctrl, Alt, Delete" or anything, the whole thing is just frozen. It will sometimes blue screen, then the screen will go black and the hard drive sounds like it speeds up, or the fans kick in. Or it will just lock up to a black screen and beep at you until you power it down.
The problems have been getting progressively worse as time has gone on from one in a while to almost one every day. I can't seem to figure out the problem, I thought it was graphics, but it will do it when I play games on max settings, or real basic games.
I decided it was the HDD, so I plugged in a 1TB Western Digital Black HDD into Sata slot 1, while my main raptor HDD is in slot 0. I used Acronis to do a full clone, after it was complete, the computer booted up from the new HDD no problem.
I decided to pull the old one out, and put the new one into slot 0. When I turned the computer on again, the Bios did not recognize the HDD as being present, the only HDD the computer recognizes as being in slot 0, is the old drive.
I can plug the new one into slot 1 and it will boot up fine, but not slot 0. Why does the old smaller hdd work on slot 0, but not the new one?
Does it matter what slots it is in, or is it fine to leave the new drive as the primary on slot one? Can i plug in an extra hdd into slot 0 for storage?
I was told it was possibly the motherboard causing all the crashes, especially now that it isn't recognizing hdd's. Any suggestions?
Could it be the Motherboard doesnt support 1TB drives?
Suggestions?
I have been having issues with the computer locking up and freezing to the point where you cant do the "Ctrl, Alt, Delete" or anything, the whole thing is just frozen. It will sometimes blue screen, then the screen will go black and the hard drive sounds like it speeds up, or the fans kick in. Or it will just lock up to a black screen and beep at you until you power it down.
The problems have been getting progressively worse as time has gone on from one in a while to almost one every day. I can't seem to figure out the problem, I thought it was graphics, but it will do it when I play games on max settings, or real basic games.
I decided it was the HDD, so I plugged in a 1TB Western Digital Black HDD into Sata slot 1, while my main raptor HDD is in slot 0. I used Acronis to do a full clone, after it was complete, the computer booted up from the new HDD no problem.
I decided to pull the old one out, and put the new one into slot 0. When I turned the computer on again, the Bios did not recognize the HDD as being present, the only HDD the computer recognizes as being in slot 0, is the old drive.
I can plug the new one into slot 1 and it will boot up fine, but not slot 0. Why does the old smaller hdd work on slot 0, but not the new one?
Does it matter what slots it is in, or is it fine to leave the new drive as the primary on slot one? Can i plug in an extra hdd into slot 0 for storage?
I was told it was possibly the motherboard causing all the crashes, especially now that it isn't recognizing hdd's. Any suggestions?
Could it be the Motherboard doesnt support 1TB drives?
Suggestions?