HDD Freezes Randomly

Alejandro Aldeco · Sep 3, 2014

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

i7Baby · Sep 3, 2014

Run a Checkdisk with repair.

Run a virus scan eg Avast, Malwarebytes.

If its a Seagate, download and run Seatools to check the drive.

Alejandro Aldeco · Sep 3, 2014

i7Baby :

Oh I forgot to mention I already try Checkdisk, let me try with Avast and Malwarebytes

And no :/ It's a WD

Alejandro Aldeco · Sep 3, 2014

Well I finished the scan with both programs and I didn't find anything, the HDD is on perfect state, so... I don't know what's going on :/ all the drivers are up to date :/ I guess I will have to replace my HDD

i7Baby · Sep 3, 2014

Try WD Diagnsotic Tool - http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=612&sid=3

Alejandro Aldeco · Sep 4, 2014

Well... Nothing wrong with the drive :/ It must be something wrong with the OS but I wonder why? I made a clean install
(Back up all my files, format the drive then install windows from the disk and also from a bootable USB to double check if the issue was the CD

i7Baby · Sep 4, 2014

If its old and noisy its time to get rid of it.

Alejandro Aldeco · Sep 4, 2014

i7Baby :

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?

i7Baby · Sep 4, 2014

What does "Quiet as it can be 8D" mean?

Alejandro Aldeco · Sep 4, 2014

It doesn't make any noises

Alejandro Aldeco · Sep 4, 2014

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

i7Baby · Sep 4, 2014

Your power supply isn't the best. Can you post what voltages its putting out? From uefi/bios of using HWInfo, Sensors. For 12v, 5v and 3.3v.

Alejandro Aldeco · Sep 4, 2014

Well I found this info:
CPU 1.344v
Dram 1.500v
3.3v 3.383v
5v 5.130v
12v 12.340v

i7Baby · Sep 4, 2014

OK, so it looks like your power supply is working OK

Alejandro Aldeco · Sep 4, 2014

i7Baby :

Yes, 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

i7Baby · Sep 4, 2014

Are you still getting freeze-ups?

Alejandro Aldeco · Sep 4, 2014

i7Baby :

Yes, not as frequent since I installed Mozilla but yes, as long as I'm not watching videos It doesn't freeze

i7Baby · Sep 4, 2014

What CPU temps are you getting?

Alejandro Aldeco · Sep 4, 2014

i7Baby :

Idle about 48ºC under workload 55-57ºC
GPU Idle 57ºC under workload around 75ºC

i7Baby · Sep 4, 2014

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.

Alejandro Aldeco · Sep 4, 2014

i7Baby :

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%

i7Baby · Sep 4, 2014

48C idle is too hot.

Alejandro Aldeco · Sep 5, 2014

i7Baby :

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

Alejandro Aldeco · Sep 5, 2014

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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