So for the last couple of months I've been running into several instances where my PC will randomly hitch and a program like a game or chrome will be unresponsive for about 10-30 seconds before recovering.. but I can still move my mouse cursor until eventually my entire system becomes unresponsive during the last 10 or so seconds of the hitch, and then finally my system recovers itself and I can go about my business or continue gaming.
However for the last couple of weeks now some games, particularly the ones installed on my SSD, are all having random freezes that last about half a second and have started to severely impact my ability to play. I suspect it is my SSD and I'm trying to gather as much information as possible to narrow the cause and see if I have to: a) reformat and re-install Windows 7, b) determine that the SSD is about to fail and get a replacement while I can, or c) an alternative solution.
All this has happened after I performed a reformat on both my SSD and HDD and re-installed everything proper - the only things that I found strange were that when I installed windows this time (2nd time doing a clean installation on the SSD), it asked me to reserve a portion of the SSD (now D: which it did not the first time I installed windows on this SSD, so now my HDD is E: ), and windows would not install unless I configured the SSD for a particular file system (I honestly cannot remember what the two configurations were, but the windows installation would not proceed unless I chose a specific option for the SSD). Several weeks later after doing all this, CHKDSK started to run every other boot, and I had to shut it off via a registry change to keep it from running since all the information I found online suggested that it does nothing for a SSD.
I've ran HD Tune Pro 5.50 and CrystalDiskInfo 6.2.1 and while Crystal doesn't find any issues with my SSD (as far as I can tell), HD Tune Pro is telling me that I have 16 retired blocks, and the Error scan shows 2 bad sectors right at the top of the scan display.
System specs
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
MOBO: P67A-GD65(B3) MSI
CPU: I5 2500k @ 3.30ghz (STOCK)
GFX: EVGA GTX 780
Ram: 16gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz DDR3
SSD: OCZ Agility 3 240gb
HDD: WesternDigital 1002FAEX 1TB Black
Further more, I realize now that I failed to unhook my HDD during the installation, but everything at the time seemed to have installed properly, so I didn't think anything of it at the time, now looking at Crystal Disk Info (top left corner) it shows that D: and E: are both under the HDD, so I'm starting to believe that I indeed messed up the installation, and a new install is going to be required...
Any insight or assistance would be greatly appreciated!
However for the last couple of weeks now some games, particularly the ones installed on my SSD, are all having random freezes that last about half a second and have started to severely impact my ability to play. I suspect it is my SSD and I'm trying to gather as much information as possible to narrow the cause and see if I have to: a) reformat and re-install Windows 7, b) determine that the SSD is about to fail and get a replacement while I can, or c) an alternative solution.
All this has happened after I performed a reformat on both my SSD and HDD and re-installed everything proper - the only things that I found strange were that when I installed windows this time (2nd time doing a clean installation on the SSD), it asked me to reserve a portion of the SSD (now D: which it did not the first time I installed windows on this SSD, so now my HDD is E: ), and windows would not install unless I configured the SSD for a particular file system (I honestly cannot remember what the two configurations were, but the windows installation would not proceed unless I chose a specific option for the SSD). Several weeks later after doing all this, CHKDSK started to run every other boot, and I had to shut it off via a registry change to keep it from running since all the information I found online suggested that it does nothing for a SSD.
I've ran HD Tune Pro 5.50 and CrystalDiskInfo 6.2.1 and while Crystal doesn't find any issues with my SSD (as far as I can tell), HD Tune Pro is telling me that I have 16 retired blocks, and the Error scan shows 2 bad sectors right at the top of the scan display.
System specs
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
MOBO: P67A-GD65(B3) MSI
CPU: I5 2500k @ 3.30ghz (STOCK)
GFX: EVGA GTX 780
Ram: 16gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz DDR3
SSD: OCZ Agility 3 240gb
HDD: WesternDigital 1002FAEX 1TB Black
Further more, I realize now that I failed to unhook my HDD during the installation, but everything at the time seemed to have installed properly, so I didn't think anything of it at the time, now looking at Crystal Disk Info (top left corner) it shows that D: and E: are both under the HDD, so I'm starting to believe that I indeed messed up the installation, and a new install is going to be required...
Any insight or assistance would be greatly appreciated!
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