Hard Drive Causing Freeze/Lost Display?

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CodemasterRob-1373358

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I have a 500 GB WD Black that's around a year and a half old. I have a very specific problem where my computer freezes directly after exiting a game, on the desktop, and does so for about 10 seconds while slowly my mouse input ceases to work, and then nothing is responsive. I just got back a replacement board from ASRock hoping that it would fix the problem, as well as had all other parts except the HDD tested. I was told my GPU was fine after being tested for a week, and none of the other parts (RAM, CPU) were causing any issues.

What I'd like to know is, in the event it is my HDD, how could this cause my system to not only completely lock up and become unresponsive to anything, but also make the display go black? And would the best test be to buy a small 25 GB HDD, install Windows, and try to reproduce the problem? Thanks.
 
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Try testing the HDD. You can download the manufacturers diagnostic utility from their website.

You wont find a 25gb hdd and an ssd that small would probably cost $50 for which you could buy a new 1TB drive to test with.

Yes an HDD or a buggy gpu driver can do this. Used to happen all the time to me in skyrim and I'd could tell when I needed to exit and reboot before he pc locked up.
 
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CodemasterRob-1373358

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I've already given the system a full diagnostic test. besides hard drive tests. There's no virus, this is strictly hardware related as I've installed many different operating systems to try and troubleshoot this. It's been a problem for almost a year. I ran a bunch of different tests on the hard drive within the last hour using PC Test booted from a flash drive. It couldn't detect that my hard drive was SMART enabled, even though I've enabled it in my UEFI settings and disabled Secure Boot, but all other tests apart from the SMART ones I ran passed, as well as all of the tests on all other components of the computer.
 
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CodemasterRob-1373358

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It wasn't the hard drive. I went out and bought a small 100 GB HDD and reinstalled Windows on it. Same problem happens. Thanks for the help guys. I did run tests on them, but some of them froze on the larger HDD and never continued even though I left them running over night. I think I used a bootable version of PCTest for that.
 
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CodemasterRob-1373358

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I've tried two different SATA cables and all SATA ports on the motherboard, as well as all of the expansion cables I have. This isn't a hard drive issue. I'll close this as I've opened a new thread under systems to further help in identifying the problem. I have a large suspicion of the it being the CPU.
 
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