- Mar 2, 2014
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Hello all, I have come to this site by google a few times now for other reasons and now am in a bit of a bind. I see lots of similar problems but mine seems just slightly different and any help would be appreciated.
Specs:
Mobo - EVGA P55
CPU - i3 550 Clarkdale 3.2GHz LGA 1156
PSU - Zephyr MX 750W
Mem - ADATA DDR3 1600 (2x2)
Graphics - MSI GTX 560 Ti 2.0 GB Twin Frozr II
HDD 1 - Hitatchi 7200 1tb 3.0 GB/s(original hdd)
HDD 2 - Seagate 7200 1tb 6.0 GB/s(new hdd)
I bought the new seagate a few months ago and just got around to installing it. I bought it solely to hold my steam stuff as it was getting too large for the other drive. I installed it with no problems and moved the 400+ gigs of data to it without a hitch. Everything loaded fine, BIOS recognized it, formatted fine...basically no issues. Then about two days ago or so (2/28-ish) I kept getting random little freezes where my mouse wouldn't move for about 10-30 seconds. Happened rather un-frequently so I didn't bother much.
Today however it started happening about every 5 min or less. I did some searches to make sure I didn't miss anything when installing or find a similar problem. Found some things about freezing and issues with bad drivers and what not. I have not run anything on the drive as I'm not sure how to just check that drive (my OS is on the original drive and the new one is just for memory so I'm unsure of how to test the new one only as the old one is just fine). I thought it might be the cable as I just savagely cannibalized my wife's very old (2005ish) computer for the SATA cable because it didn't come with one and I had no spare, but in searching it doesn't seem like there is much difference in cables.
Unplugged the new drive and everything works just fine like it did before I installed it. No freezing at all and going on over 3 hours of it. So I have pinpointed it to the drive, but now basically what can I do from here to see if it's a bad drive, or something to do with the massive data transfer to make sure everything is kosher with it before I start delving into the circle of hell that is customer service.
Specs:
Mobo - EVGA P55
CPU - i3 550 Clarkdale 3.2GHz LGA 1156
PSU - Zephyr MX 750W
Mem - ADATA DDR3 1600 (2x2)
Graphics - MSI GTX 560 Ti 2.0 GB Twin Frozr II
HDD 1 - Hitatchi 7200 1tb 3.0 GB/s(original hdd)
HDD 2 - Seagate 7200 1tb 6.0 GB/s(new hdd)
I bought the new seagate a few months ago and just got around to installing it. I bought it solely to hold my steam stuff as it was getting too large for the other drive. I installed it with no problems and moved the 400+ gigs of data to it without a hitch. Everything loaded fine, BIOS recognized it, formatted fine...basically no issues. Then about two days ago or so (2/28-ish) I kept getting random little freezes where my mouse wouldn't move for about 10-30 seconds. Happened rather un-frequently so I didn't bother much.
Today however it started happening about every 5 min or less. I did some searches to make sure I didn't miss anything when installing or find a similar problem. Found some things about freezing and issues with bad drivers and what not. I have not run anything on the drive as I'm not sure how to just check that drive (my OS is on the original drive and the new one is just for memory so I'm unsure of how to test the new one only as the old one is just fine). I thought it might be the cable as I just savagely cannibalized my wife's very old (2005ish) computer for the SATA cable because it didn't come with one and I had no spare, but in searching it doesn't seem like there is much difference in cables.
Unplugged the new drive and everything works just fine like it did before I installed it. No freezing at all and going on over 3 hours of it. So I have pinpointed it to the drive, but now basically what can I do from here to see if it's a bad drive, or something to do with the massive data transfer to make sure everything is kosher with it before I start delving into the circle of hell that is customer service.
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