- Oct 17, 2013
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Hi everyone,
First I want to say thanks in advance for any assistance. I'm new to the community although I have found this site very useful in the past for resolving problems with my computer. I'm here now because I have failed to find the answer to my current issue in these forums. So here's the problem.
About a week and a half ago, I built my first computer. First boot was a success, OS (Windows 7 Home Premium) installation was a success, driver installations were also a success. Everything was going perfect. Until one day... (few days later lol) the entire system froze within a minute of start-up. This happened consistently and it was a guarantee it was going to lock up when I started it. (Locks up at desktop: I've done some research on it and concluded that as soon as it would begin to access the HDD, all would freeze. Everything. Time at bottom, mouse, everything.
After trying to troubleshoot to see what was causing this, I resorted to simply reformatting my drive (WD Blue 1TB) and re-installing windows. It didn't matter to me at the time because I didn't have any precious information on it. So I did, and all was well again. (I just had to re-install all the drivers and everything. No big deal.)
A week passes. The same thing happened again. Complete freeze within a minute of startup, anytime the computer begins to access the drive. This time, however, I wanted to figure this out. So after about fifteen hours of reading forums and troubleshooting I narrowed down the culprit... superfetch. I restarted after disabling it and lo-n-behold, everything was fine. That is fine and dandy but I learned a bit about superfetch and it turns out it's a very useful program to have. It's still turned off now as I write.
Computer runs fine now... until I try to run a disk check or even the software from the manufacturer of the drive (WD) called "Data Lifeguard Diagnostics". Complete freeze once again. I'm forced to reset every time I try this. I even tried everything in safe mode.
Anyhow, my suspicion is this. Could it be that superfetch isn't necessarily the problem, but instead its "relations" with the hard drive? The reason I suspect this is because when I try to run defrag, dskchk, diagnostics, everything freezes. Maybe superfetch and these programs are equally responsible for the freezing. Maybe? I have no clue, and that's why i'm here.
This is my first build and I'd really like to get to the bottom of what could be causing this. I'd like to actually enable superfetch! I'm beginning to think this is a hardware problem, and I have a faulty drive, but when I go to test it, everything freezes. Any ideas?
So, again, thanks for any help, it will be much appreciated.
Thanks!
First I want to say thanks in advance for any assistance. I'm new to the community although I have found this site very useful in the past for resolving problems with my computer. I'm here now because I have failed to find the answer to my current issue in these forums. So here's the problem.
About a week and a half ago, I built my first computer. First boot was a success, OS (Windows 7 Home Premium) installation was a success, driver installations were also a success. Everything was going perfect. Until one day... (few days later lol) the entire system froze within a minute of start-up. This happened consistently and it was a guarantee it was going to lock up when I started it. (Locks up at desktop: I've done some research on it and concluded that as soon as it would begin to access the HDD, all would freeze. Everything. Time at bottom, mouse, everything.
After trying to troubleshoot to see what was causing this, I resorted to simply reformatting my drive (WD Blue 1TB) and re-installing windows. It didn't matter to me at the time because I didn't have any precious information on it. So I did, and all was well again. (I just had to re-install all the drivers and everything. No big deal.)
A week passes. The same thing happened again. Complete freeze within a minute of startup, anytime the computer begins to access the drive. This time, however, I wanted to figure this out. So after about fifteen hours of reading forums and troubleshooting I narrowed down the culprit... superfetch. I restarted after disabling it and lo-n-behold, everything was fine. That is fine and dandy but I learned a bit about superfetch and it turns out it's a very useful program to have. It's still turned off now as I write.
Computer runs fine now... until I try to run a disk check or even the software from the manufacturer of the drive (WD) called "Data Lifeguard Diagnostics". Complete freeze once again. I'm forced to reset every time I try this. I even tried everything in safe mode.
Anyhow, my suspicion is this. Could it be that superfetch isn't necessarily the problem, but instead its "relations" with the hard drive? The reason I suspect this is because when I try to run defrag, dskchk, diagnostics, everything freezes. Maybe superfetch and these programs are equally responsible for the freezing. Maybe? I have no clue, and that's why i'm here.
This is my first build and I'd really like to get to the bottom of what could be causing this. I'd like to actually enable superfetch! I'm beginning to think this is a hardware problem, and I have a faulty drive, but when I go to test it, everything freezes. Any ideas?
So, again, thanks for any help, it will be much appreciated.
Thanks!
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