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I have been having this problem for over 6 months.

So I start off with a fresh format of Windows 7. PC runs great for a month or two, then the crashes begin. It starts with a screen lock like once a day, gradually getting worse over the next month to the point where it will lock up within 10 minutes of a fresh boot. The locks have the symptoms. I can move the mouse, any say open the start menu, right clicking or trying to open a program, the program will totally lock up. Following the lock the PC can reboot instantly to taking 30 minutes to finally power down.

In the even logs I see idle port errors. I have just been content on reformatting when this happens but I am tired of it, I have tried once or twice to fix this, last try was to RMA the hard drive. This was done afew months ago, now the problem is happening again I am thinking it might be the motherboard?

What I have noticed, I have put the windows 7 install disc in and selected new install. When it loads up the available drives, my main drive is not even being detected. 2 secondary drivers are, a 3rd is not being detected either.

Does this sound like a motherboard issue?

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I have afew other hard drives, but like I said the computer runs great for about a month or two before this issue starts up. I have ran a MEM test for 24 hours, everything checked out good there....

I went ahead and reformated for now, the PC was totally unstable, would freeze at the login screen or within 3 minutes of loading into windows. Exact same thing the last two times, runs great for a month or two. The crashes start very slowly, and get worse to the point where it is totally unusable, which is where it is at now.

 
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Why would you think it was the PSU? Not saying it isn't but it runs great off a new format. Check the post above. The hard drive is brand new, well 2 months, since the last time when I RMAed it thinking that was the issue. I have ran chkdsk and nothing ever shows up bad.

I would get the CPU and GPU loads but it freezes in 3 minutes now, just reformated. I am 100% sure this issue will happen again if I cannot find the root cause.

Cheers!
 
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It usually is a PSU or overheating issue with this description, but if usually actually was usually in the world of computing, IT would be much easier lol

If it works good after a new format, it wouldn't keep cropping up, and getting this bad, unless you have some overly horribly corrupted Windows installer lol

Before it does freeze, do you have a chance to install/use Piriform Speccy? It'll show you the temps of the motherboard, CPU, GPU, RAM and let us know if any of those are the problem. Have you tried running a single stick of RAM at a time?
 
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Ok scratch the reformat. I booted once into the windows boot menu and the master drive did not show up as an install drive. I rebooted into the installer, it did pop up as a valid drive. I started the reformat and it backed out saying it does not have a valid drive. I go to look at the available drive and it no longer shows up as an option here.

So the drive is having issues being read even in the installer. I think this might be the issue of the freeze and why I am seeing IDLE PORT issues. The drive must be getting disconnected from the motherboard somehow?

 
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Lol, now that was one of the first things I had tried. i even bought new SATA cables. No effect here. Yes it is for sure an odd issue.
 
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So I took the battery out. Put it back in and booted into the install disc. It detected the hard drive. I started the install and it got to about 70% then threw an error:

Windows cannot install required files. The file does not exist. make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. error code: 0x080070003

I go back and look at the drives available, and the it is gone, both partitions even.
 
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Its a CD, and I have reformated it, RMAed the drive last time this happened. Does not matter
 
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I have used this disc twice the past month, no issues on any of my other computers... The hard drive is missing when I look at drives to install windows onto. I will try another disc but I do not think the issue is with the image. The hard drive will only show up about 50% of the time I boot into the setup disc.
 
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Gotcha, lol.... The bad thing is that all my hard drives have data on them.. This is the only drive that I use for the OS. Sometimes backing data on multiple drives can be a bad thing, in cases like this!!!

I think I am going to RMA the motherboard and see where that leaves me. That and the PSU are the only two things I have not replaced yet off this build. Hopefully it is a bad SATA port or controller off the motherboard.
 
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