Hello everyone I apologize in advance for the long post, please bare with me and I really hope someone can assist me in diagnosing my problem.
Recently I purchased a Samsung 840 series 120 GB SSD to put in my desktop, the specs of my desktop are as follows:
- 64-bit Windows 7 Professional
- Intel Core i5 3470 @ 3.20 Ghz Ivy Bridge CPU
- 8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 memory HyperXBlu
- Gigabyte Technology B75M-D3H motherboard
- 1024 MB Gigabyte Raden HD 7750 video card
- 120 GB Samsung SSd 840 series
- 500 GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX HDD
- Asus DRW-24B1ST optical drive
- XFX Pro550W power supply
so before I did not have an SSD, just a regular HDD and the desktop was working flawlessly at all times
Recently I put my SSD in my new build, I also did some wire management as well. I have the SSD in my sata 3 spot on the motherboard, and I put the optical drive and my HDD in the other sata ports I have.As far as I know other than moving wires around this is the only thing I have changed. I also have both of my fans connected to the PSU and a front fan cooling the hard drives connected to the motherboard.
Ever since I put the new SSD in and did the new wire arrangement my PC has been acting weird in the following ways
1) the optical drive sometimes does not work. I will put a DVD in and it doesn't load or read it. I restart the computer and then it works. It's like off and on, sometimes works sometimes doesn't
2) The comp will sometimes shut down right out of the blue BOOM out of no where it just shuts off. Twice I noticed that it shut off right after I was connecting my printer's ethernet cable into my router
I thought it was because the SATA cable was sliding out of the SSD because the SSD wasn't mounted (I'm waiting to get a 2.5 to 3.5 bracket to do it), so I mounted one side of the SSD that I could and made sure it was firmly in. I thought that had fixed the problem but nope it still happened after and I know now for sure it's not because the SATA on the SSD is sliding out
Also it's not an overheating issue as all the temps are fine, the temps are the following (in Celsius)
CPU 36-42 degrees
Motherboard 28-30 degrees
Video card 31-40 degrees
Hard drives 25-30 degrees
These are my theories and they could be silly
1) Only other thing I could think of is maybe my motherboard is not properly grounded and there's a short? But what does this have to do with the optical drive not working sometimes?
2) The sata cable I now put into the optical drive is kinda old, I grabbed it from a friend who had an extra .. could this may be a faulty wire? But even if it was that only explains one of the problems, and not why the desktop shuts off/restarts out of nowhere
3) Faulty PSU .. I don't think so though, it's a fairly new computer build only about 14-15 months old. I don't think I'm running any heavy hardware and 550 watts should be just fine
I'm gonna take it to my friend to make sure all the hardware is put in properly, but if anyone has any suggestions or any theories please let me know, here are some pics of my build
Recently I purchased a Samsung 840 series 120 GB SSD to put in my desktop, the specs of my desktop are as follows:
- 64-bit Windows 7 Professional
- Intel Core i5 3470 @ 3.20 Ghz Ivy Bridge CPU
- 8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 memory HyperXBlu
- Gigabyte Technology B75M-D3H motherboard
- 1024 MB Gigabyte Raden HD 7750 video card
- 120 GB Samsung SSd 840 series
- 500 GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX HDD
- Asus DRW-24B1ST optical drive
- XFX Pro550W power supply
so before I did not have an SSD, just a regular HDD and the desktop was working flawlessly at all times
Recently I put my SSD in my new build, I also did some wire management as well. I have the SSD in my sata 3 spot on the motherboard, and I put the optical drive and my HDD in the other sata ports I have.As far as I know other than moving wires around this is the only thing I have changed. I also have both of my fans connected to the PSU and a front fan cooling the hard drives connected to the motherboard.
Ever since I put the new SSD in and did the new wire arrangement my PC has been acting weird in the following ways
1) the optical drive sometimes does not work. I will put a DVD in and it doesn't load or read it. I restart the computer and then it works. It's like off and on, sometimes works sometimes doesn't
2) The comp will sometimes shut down right out of the blue BOOM out of no where it just shuts off. Twice I noticed that it shut off right after I was connecting my printer's ethernet cable into my router
I thought it was because the SATA cable was sliding out of the SSD because the SSD wasn't mounted (I'm waiting to get a 2.5 to 3.5 bracket to do it), so I mounted one side of the SSD that I could and made sure it was firmly in. I thought that had fixed the problem but nope it still happened after and I know now for sure it's not because the SATA on the SSD is sliding out
Also it's not an overheating issue as all the temps are fine, the temps are the following (in Celsius)
CPU 36-42 degrees
Motherboard 28-30 degrees
Video card 31-40 degrees
Hard drives 25-30 degrees
These are my theories and they could be silly
1) Only other thing I could think of is maybe my motherboard is not properly grounded and there's a short? But what does this have to do with the optical drive not working sometimes?
2) The sata cable I now put into the optical drive is kinda old, I grabbed it from a friend who had an extra .. could this may be a faulty wire? But even if it was that only explains one of the problems, and not why the desktop shuts off/restarts out of nowhere
3) Faulty PSU .. I don't think so though, it's a fairly new computer build only about 14-15 months old. I don't think I'm running any heavy hardware and 550 watts should be just fine
I'm gonna take it to my friend to make sure all the hardware is put in properly, but if anyone has any suggestions or any theories please let me know, here are some pics of my build