- May 16, 2014
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Hello,
I built a budget gaming PC about 7 months ago. It has worked great, until the used WD Green HDD I had failed. So I bought a WD 1TB Black a month and a half ago, reinstalled Windows 7 64 HP and all my drivers, and for the past couple days I have gotten two blue screens and about 8 random freezes that never unfreeze, even when left overnight. Unfortunately, I was not paying much attention to the blue screens, and they disappeared within about a minute, so I don't know the crash number or anything. The random freezes are a bit strange, they all happened within half hour of my computer being turned on. My computer is fully functional, and is not sluggish in any way, and then all of a sudden, usually when loading a web page, everything freezes(the screen does not update, besides the mouse), except for the mouse. For instance, if I am using Chrome and I make a search, everything may freeze but my mouse, and when I scroll over any buttons on Chrome or Windows 7 itself that usually become highlighted, nothing happens. Several seconds later, my mouse will not respond either. What is strange is that no tabs or windows that I have open gray out like they usually do when they freeze/crash, they remain their natural color.
I have ran Windows tests on both my RAM and HDD. I ran the RAM test(mdsched.exe) twice, with no reported errors. I ran the HDD test(C:/Properties/Tools/Error-checking) once, which oddly took around 2.5 hours, yet Windows did not find any errors. During the HDD error checking, certain files/segments or whatever it was loading seemed to take far too long, about 2-3 minutes.
Can anyone help me at all? I am having a lot of trouble narrowing down the problem! I don't know if it is a problem with the hardware, or a driver, or whatnot. I heard that Chrome has caused freezes/crashes like these, but even after uninstalling, my computer froze again.
If another blue screen comes up, I will be sure to copy any info I see! Thank you for your time
UPDATE: I have been running in Safe Mode w/out networking or anything safely for almost an hour, no crashes. So it is looking like maybe a driver issue.
I built a budget gaming PC about 7 months ago. It has worked great, until the used WD Green HDD I had failed. So I bought a WD 1TB Black a month and a half ago, reinstalled Windows 7 64 HP and all my drivers, and for the past couple days I have gotten two blue screens and about 8 random freezes that never unfreeze, even when left overnight. Unfortunately, I was not paying much attention to the blue screens, and they disappeared within about a minute, so I don't know the crash number or anything. The random freezes are a bit strange, they all happened within half hour of my computer being turned on. My computer is fully functional, and is not sluggish in any way, and then all of a sudden, usually when loading a web page, everything freezes(the screen does not update, besides the mouse), except for the mouse. For instance, if I am using Chrome and I make a search, everything may freeze but my mouse, and when I scroll over any buttons on Chrome or Windows 7 itself that usually become highlighted, nothing happens. Several seconds later, my mouse will not respond either. What is strange is that no tabs or windows that I have open gray out like they usually do when they freeze/crash, they remain their natural color.
I have ran Windows tests on both my RAM and HDD. I ran the RAM test(mdsched.exe) twice, with no reported errors. I ran the HDD test(C:/Properties/Tools/Error-checking) once, which oddly took around 2.5 hours, yet Windows did not find any errors. During the HDD error checking, certain files/segments or whatever it was loading seemed to take far too long, about 2-3 minutes.
Can anyone help me at all? I am having a lot of trouble narrowing down the problem! I don't know if it is a problem with the hardware, or a driver, or whatnot. I heard that Chrome has caused freezes/crashes like these, but even after uninstalling, my computer froze again.
If another blue screen comes up, I will be sure to copy any info I see! Thank you for your time
UPDATE: I have been running in Safe Mode w/out networking or anything safely for almost an hour, no crashes. So it is looking like maybe a driver issue.
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