Please Help!(HDD Or RAM Or MOBO error)

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Hi guys i recently experienced my computer just turning itself off, I thought omg Maybe the power supply is fried. So i turned the computer back on and heard a like grinding noise that sounded like it was possibly coming from the PSU fan. the noise went away after like 20 sec The after a while my computer crashed and went to the blue screen. ive checked my HDD on seatools and tried a fix all fast and it failed so far through.(am now trying the fix all long approach). Im yet to try memtest. But the reason im trying these is because when i am trying to install a game it comes up with the error crc checksum error. Also google has started to keep erroring out and asking me to restart it. Im a bit out of my depth here guys could use some advice.
 
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Well, there's your problem. I'd get a different set of RAM if I were you (or return the bad stick if it's under warranty).

Unless you're noticing poor performance with just the one stick, you should be fine with 4GB in the meantime. I mean, ideally you'd be at 8GB just to have plenty of headroom, but computers can run most things just fine with 4GB.
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CRC is a hard drive thing, which could be corrupted files or that the drive itself is failing. Back up anything important ASAP. You could try reformatting the drive and see if it was the former problem. I would also run a full hard drive diagnostic using Seatools and see what it comes back with. The initial results do not sound encouraging.

Usually, a machine will not just turn itself off because of a hard drive problem, it would more likely hang up and then eventually give you an error. Heat or power are the two things to check first when a machine is just shutting down on its own. So as a secondary thing I'd advise you to test that the PSU is giving voltage within spec, or test with a PSU from a different machine to eliminate that as a problem.

 
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thnx, Ive just tried Fix all long and fail so far through again and was told to try in DOS dont know if this will make a difference but i did think maybe my PSU has caused the problem. My computer just crashed bleeped and then had blue screen :-S
 
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What error message did it give you on the blue screen? Would be good to write that down.

Also, are you getting beeps when you boot up after a crash? If so, your motherboard should have a list of beep codes that correspond to the likely problem component.
 
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No beeps when booting up, and that blue screen goes off to fast to right anything down. i havent had it crash for a phew weeks now. just took one of my ram sticks out and it seems to be installing one of my games fine at the minute. dont know if that means that if i have a hdd problem does it only work now and again or is the problem my RAM stick of where its seated
 
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Well, it would help to know the full specs of your system ... as for the problem, it's good that it's gone away for now, but it definitely is possible that a hard drive that's going bad can work on again, off again for a while before it fails. So you can't rule that out; again, I would run a full drive diagnostic.

Encouraging to hear about the effect of changing the RAM ... one thing you can do is to download and run memtest86+ and check each stick for errors. Best to run it with one stick at a time, let it run for several passes, then try it with the next stick, etc., until you have found or ruled out any problems. If you had a stick of RAM starting to fail, it could also cause some of those random blue screens and hangups.
 
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It's atx - 500w pay
2x 4gb ddr3 xm5 corsair
750gb seagate barracuda
Asus m5a 78 l
Asus Radeon hd 6650
Phenom 2 x4 be 3.4ghz

The game installed fine so I though I would put the other stick of ram back in and see what happens in another slot. Tried installing another game and it failed and then computer just turned off
 
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Well, there's your problem. I'd get a different set of RAM if I were you (or return the bad stick if it's under warranty).

Unless you're noticing poor performance with just the one stick, you should be fine with 4GB in the meantime. I mean, ideally you'd be at 8GB just to have plenty of headroom, but computers can run most things just fine with 4GB.
 
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That's the way to go, glad you figured it out!

btw, if I were in your shoes, I would probably just buy two new sticks of RAM and sell off the old one. Mixing and matching different sticks sometimes works, and sometimes will be unstable with nothing you can do about it. That causes problems just like the ones you were having above. That wasn't much fun, was it? :)
 
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it did cause me pain but i never mix and match my ram i always run twin ram sticks and im going to buy the same stick i already have installed and run dual channel. thank you for your response :D
 
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