Hello!
This problem has been plaguing me for over a week now.
Whenever I start up my computer It boots into windows perfectly fine, but then It beings to become unresponsive and I have a circle on my cursor rotating and I am forced to turn off my computer, go into safe-mode and use It that way and wait a while and then boot into It again.
I've done checks with Seagate tools on both my HDDs and Speedfan's SMART and It seems to be working fine.
I've done a RAM check with Window's start up repair and multiple system restores, registry cleaning, uninstalling and a soon to be disk-defrag.
I have two HDDs and one has my Windows and a few programs and the second has my games on and recordings, I made it like this with hope that It would reduce stress on my 2 year old 500GB sata Hard drive.
Could this be a Windows problem? It's been bugging me a lot recently and It's time consuming and annoying, I just can't spot what's wrong and I've heard that a problem like this If It's a HDD then it could become worse, I have my important files on the second drive If anything goes wrong.
Previously I was having problems where my PC would freeze for a second and If there was audio playing It would distort It or make a loud sound, this would happen every couple of minutes and then stop and I haven't seen this occur in a good while now however now my system becomes unresponsive.
I have an OC'd system which I believe is perfectly stable as I've been running It like this for over a year now, If not two.
My AMD Phenom II 555 Black Edition has It's locked 2 cores unlocked and are perfectly stable making It a Quad-Core CPU, I've had It since late 2010 and It's never had a problem since, these are at 3.6Ghz and I haven't made any voltage tweaks at these clocks.
I also have a AMD Radeon 6850 OC'd to what the max stock voltages can take and that's stable to @ Core Clock 950 and Memory Clock at 1150.
I have a relatively cool system with four 12cm fans and It's never overheated with this configuration, I dont think that my Overclocks are causing my system to do so,
I have a Artic Freezer 7 CPU Cooler which is cooling my CPU and I believe it does a good job, however with these cores unlocked I am unable to see a reliable CPU temperature but I do get readings of 40-45 on idle. on load It becomes 50-55 and I've never seen it above that temp and again I can't read the correct temps but I think these are from the motherboard's CPU sensor.
I've read a lot into unlocking those cores and ensuring they're stable, when I didn't have the cooler It would blue screen after hitting high temperatures or at load temp for a long time. My system runs cool overall now.
I recently plugged up an IDE drive to rip my GameCube games only to find out it's a CD-Rom drive, It's still active in my system, could this old hardware be the cause of my system hanging?
I have a Sata disk drive as well which is a "proper" drive
This problem can only get worse I fear, is there anything I haven't done or what could be the problem, I am usually able to fix my problems by myself or by Googling which i did a lot of before I came here but I dont think there's anything else I can do to my knowledge and understanding of the problem.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks for reading.
This problem has been plaguing me for over a week now.
Whenever I start up my computer It boots into windows perfectly fine, but then It beings to become unresponsive and I have a circle on my cursor rotating and I am forced to turn off my computer, go into safe-mode and use It that way and wait a while and then boot into It again.
I've done checks with Seagate tools on both my HDDs and Speedfan's SMART and It seems to be working fine.
I've done a RAM check with Window's start up repair and multiple system restores, registry cleaning, uninstalling and a soon to be disk-defrag.
I have two HDDs and one has my Windows and a few programs and the second has my games on and recordings, I made it like this with hope that It would reduce stress on my 2 year old 500GB sata Hard drive.
Could this be a Windows problem? It's been bugging me a lot recently and It's time consuming and annoying, I just can't spot what's wrong and I've heard that a problem like this If It's a HDD then it could become worse, I have my important files on the second drive If anything goes wrong.
Previously I was having problems where my PC would freeze for a second and If there was audio playing It would distort It or make a loud sound, this would happen every couple of minutes and then stop and I haven't seen this occur in a good while now however now my system becomes unresponsive.
I have an OC'd system which I believe is perfectly stable as I've been running It like this for over a year now, If not two.
My AMD Phenom II 555 Black Edition has It's locked 2 cores unlocked and are perfectly stable making It a Quad-Core CPU, I've had It since late 2010 and It's never had a problem since, these are at 3.6Ghz and I haven't made any voltage tweaks at these clocks.
I also have a AMD Radeon 6850 OC'd to what the max stock voltages can take and that's stable to @ Core Clock 950 and Memory Clock at 1150.
I have a relatively cool system with four 12cm fans and It's never overheated with this configuration, I dont think that my Overclocks are causing my system to do so,
I have a Artic Freezer 7 CPU Cooler which is cooling my CPU and I believe it does a good job, however with these cores unlocked I am unable to see a reliable CPU temperature but I do get readings of 40-45 on idle. on load It becomes 50-55 and I've never seen it above that temp and again I can't read the correct temps but I think these are from the motherboard's CPU sensor.
I've read a lot into unlocking those cores and ensuring they're stable, when I didn't have the cooler It would blue screen after hitting high temperatures or at load temp for a long time. My system runs cool overall now.
I recently plugged up an IDE drive to rip my GameCube games only to find out it's a CD-Rom drive, It's still active in my system, could this old hardware be the cause of my system hanging?
I have a Sata disk drive as well which is a "proper" drive
This problem can only get worse I fear, is there anything I haven't done or what could be the problem, I am usually able to fix my problems by myself or by Googling which i did a lot of before I came here but I dont think there's anything else I can do to my knowledge and understanding of the problem.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks for reading.
. Good info provided. For me, whenever an issue arises one of the first things to do is go back to manufacture settings to rule out that it is that portion of hardware.
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