HDD Freezes Randomly
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Alejandro Aldeco
September 3, 2014 6:36:59 PM
Windows 7 Pro x64
APU A4-4000
GA-F2A55M-S1
Kingston DDR3 4Gb 1333Mhz
Radeon HD5450
PW Acteck 500w
Ok so here's my problem, I recently was on a virus hunt and ended up deleting the wrong file on sysWOW64 and after that I started to have issues with any 32 bits application, (yeah I'm dumb) so I tried to update Windows: Fail, then I tried to restore windows: Fail. so I made a back up and then I re-installed windows, but for my surprise I'm still having the issue but not as frequent as before, also I'm noticing that Windows detects 4Gb of RAM at 665Mhz instead of 1333Mhz but on the bios I see 1333Mhz.
I already benchmarked all my hardware APU/RAM/GPU/HDD and everything is working fine. I already ran a virus scan with HouseCall, and also cleaned my system with SuperAntiSpyware and BitDefender
So... Any Idea on what's going on because I'm already out of ideas xD
APU A4-4000
GA-F2A55M-S1
Kingston DDR3 4Gb 1333Mhz
Radeon HD5450
PW Acteck 500w
Ok so here's my problem, I recently was on a virus hunt and ended up deleting the wrong file on sysWOW64 and after that I started to have issues with any 32 bits application, (yeah I'm dumb) so I tried to update Windows: Fail, then I tried to restore windows: Fail. so I made a back up and then I re-installed windows, but for my surprise I'm still having the issue but not as frequent as before, also I'm noticing that Windows detects 4Gb of RAM at 665Mhz instead of 1333Mhz but on the bios I see 1333Mhz.
I already benchmarked all my hardware APU/RAM/GPU/HDD and everything is working fine. I already ran a virus scan with HouseCall, and also cleaned my system with SuperAntiSpyware and BitDefender
So... Any Idea on what's going on because I'm already out of ideas xD
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Alejandro Aldeco
September 3, 2014 6:54:40 PM
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Alejandro Aldeco
September 3, 2014 7:41:44 PM
Try WD Diagnsotic Tool - http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=612...
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Alejandro Aldeco
September 3, 2014 10:11:30 PM
Alejandro Aldeco
September 3, 2014 11:03:20 PM
i7Baby said:
If its old and noisy its time to get rid of it.Quiet as it can be 8D I'm 100% sure is not the drive, as i said on the main question, the problem started because I was dumb enough to mess with the files in sysWOW64 but now I'm wondering why I have the same issue with a clean install of Windows, I already made stress tests for all my component and I tried WD, Seagate, Hitachi and Checkdisk on my HDD but everything seems fine
I'm curious of what's going on, but I will try another clean install of W7 as for why Windows shows me that my ram is running at 665Mhz when in my bios and in the stick says 1333Mhz do you have any idea? -
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Alejandro Aldeco
September 4, 2014 12:38:57 AM
Alejandro Aldeco
September 4, 2014 1:29:39 AM
so i found something funny.... all my crashes were caused by google chrome.... any thoughts?
Update: But now that I'm using Mozilla I'm noticing that it still freezes but now it comes back to life after i press Ctrl + Alt + Del it just takes a few seconds, with chrome it just dies, I even left the system on for about 4 hours with no response. Most of the times this freezing happens when Flash is in use but it had happened 2 or 3 times without any video or application using flash extensively, also windows is playing with me
Windows Update is trying to re-install all my updates, they appear ready to download and install but I already have them and it also shows me that, i think something here is really messed up so i think is time to give up and get a new HDD even if this passed all the tests
Update: But now that I'm using Mozilla I'm noticing that it still freezes but now it comes back to life after i press Ctrl + Alt + Del it just takes a few seconds, with chrome it just dies, I even left the system on for about 4 hours with no response. Most of the times this freezing happens when Flash is in use but it had happened 2 or 3 times without any video or application using flash extensively, also windows is playing with me
Windows Update is trying to re-install all my updates, they appear ready to download and install but I already have them and it also shows me that, i think something here is really messed up so i think is time to give up and get a new HDD even if this passed all the tests -
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Alejandro Aldeco
September 4, 2014 11:02:19 AM
Alejandro Aldeco
September 4, 2014 4:03:40 PM
i7Baby said:
OK, so it looks like your power supply is working OKYes, I'm having a hard time trying to figure this out, I already scanned my PC with AVG, BitDefender, SAS, HouseCall and Malwarebytes and 0 threads, I scanned the status of my HDD with several tool kits by many manufacturers, and it's working perfectly fine, and I did a stress test for my APU, RAM and GPU temperatures are bellow 50ºC, MB and HDD bellow 30ºC it has to be something to do with Windows
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Alejandro Aldeco
September 4, 2014 5:00:20 PM
Best solution
Alejandro Aldeco
September 4, 2014 7:08:02 PM
Alejandro Aldeco
September 4, 2014 7:30:40 PM
i7Baby said:
They're both a bit on the hot side. Blow your case out with compressed air to get rid of any dust build up. Get rid of any overclocks you've put on the CPU or GPU. Bump up their fan speeds.Uhm... the pc is clean, that's it's normal temperatures as far as I'm concerned, remember amd is always more power hungry than intel, I have a front fan and a top fan pushing air into the case then i have 1 rear fan pushing out the air and the whole pc is located on a open space
Oh and the workload temperatures are with both the APU and the GPU working at 100%
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Alejandro Aldeco
September 4, 2014 9:42:59 PM
i7Baby said:
48C idle is too hot.My phenom is 70 at idle XD and i have 4 years with the phenom and it has never failed, this A4 isn't going to die for 48º XD
No but really I don't know if you live in the Antarctic or something like that, but where I live, every computer non-water cooled its always at 50º to 60º idle
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Alejandro Aldeco
September 5, 2014 11:10:17 AM
Oh my god! I finally found it!!!!! As I knew this issue does not have to do with my hardware I mean I ran stress test to my "hot" CPU for 4 hours and never crashed, the system reserve partition was corrupt, all I did is erase the partition and repair with my CD and now it never freezes, I'm still wondering why it freezes only when I was on youtube but now is not a problem, thank you i7baby for holding this much
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