Hello, I'd love it if I could receive any sort of advice on this issue I've been having the last year.
Basically, almost a year ago whenever I put my PC under any pressure, copying/un-ziping files or even playing games, sometimes it would freeze and after a while restart itself and then fail to start windows showing that it doesn't see anything that's connected to it through SATA cables.
Neither of my HDD's or my dvd drive, and the only way to get it to start up again is to turn it off and on again.
It would even do this when reinstalling windows, except it wouldn't crash and restart, just say that it couldn't find the DVD drive to install anything.
Usually reinstalling windows fixes it for a while, but these freezes just become more and more frequent over time.
Some other issues starting popping up as well, such as if I let it o into power saving mode, it might not display anything on the monitor, this same thing happened several times when it restarted during windows reinstall and even when just turning on the computer.
Another issue that has only popped up once, was when I turned on the PC, only the fans started up, but nothing else.
At the same time, one of my HDD's has slowed down horribly, it took over 2 hours to install windows on it, it takes it a very long time to start up windows and so on, but funnily enough the whole freezing issue didn't pop up when I installed windows on it.
It only popped up after the install completed and it was worse than ever before, even freezing on windows startup or when downloading files from the net.
I took it to a shop to have it looked at finally because I'm just done, they said the HDD's are dying (which I can believe) and that the video card is dead, they apparently even had to switch it out to get the PC running. Funnily enough, it works fine at home though.. What really concerns me is that they said everything but the GPU and MOBO was working fine.
Anyway, I'm completely lost, I'm gonna take it to some other place to have it looked at again but I'd love some advice. Sorry for the lengthy post.
Basically, almost a year ago whenever I put my PC under any pressure, copying/un-ziping files or even playing games, sometimes it would freeze and after a while restart itself and then fail to start windows showing that it doesn't see anything that's connected to it through SATA cables.
Neither of my HDD's or my dvd drive, and the only way to get it to start up again is to turn it off and on again.
It would even do this when reinstalling windows, except it wouldn't crash and restart, just say that it couldn't find the DVD drive to install anything.
Usually reinstalling windows fixes it for a while, but these freezes just become more and more frequent over time.
Some other issues starting popping up as well, such as if I let it o into power saving mode, it might not display anything on the monitor, this same thing happened several times when it restarted during windows reinstall and even when just turning on the computer.
Another issue that has only popped up once, was when I turned on the PC, only the fans started up, but nothing else.
At the same time, one of my HDD's has slowed down horribly, it took over 2 hours to install windows on it, it takes it a very long time to start up windows and so on, but funnily enough the whole freezing issue didn't pop up when I installed windows on it.
It only popped up after the install completed and it was worse than ever before, even freezing on windows startup or when downloading files from the net.
I took it to a shop to have it looked at finally because I'm just done, they said the HDD's are dying (which I can believe) and that the video card is dead, they apparently even had to switch it out to get the PC running. Funnily enough, it works fine at home though.. What really concerns me is that they said everything but the GPU and MOBO was working fine.
Anyway, I'm completely lost, I'm gonna take it to some other place to have it looked at again but I'd love some advice. Sorry for the lengthy post.
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