Steam and Origin max out my HDD.

jose56wonton

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Hi guys i have a samsung 840 evo 120gb drive with windows 7 professional 64bit running on it. Everything else runs off my WD caviar blue 500gb drive including Steam and Origin. So my problem started yesterday when I tried to open steam... it constants stops responding and eventually closes itself when i open it. Origin does the same. I have tried in safe-mode with networking, run scans with avast, used msconfig to make sure no other 3rd party programs open when i boot, and obviously rebooted multiple times. I don't have a recovery point either. What should I do?


My specs are
fx-8320 @3.6
8gbs of 1333mhz corsair vengeance
samsung 840 evo 120gb
wd caviar blue 500gb
sapphire 7950 3gb
corsair cx600m

I generally have my memory at 1600mhz and my processor at 4.2 but i downclocked to see if that would help.

PLEASE HELP
 

Mciahel

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Thats weird. I'm not an expert in that field, but I'd try re installing steam. I know its a pain, but it might fix it. Other thing to try is checking for Viruses. H ave you done that yet?