I've been having issues with my computer, two weeks ago my old hard drive died. Everything seemed normal, I had no issues, no blue screens, nothing out of the ordinary for my computer. I was on Skype with a friend and the computer starts beeping, not through the headset but some part was beeping (I'm not sure exactly what part though). It wasn't beeping repetitively or fast, just once every couple of seconds. I restarted my computer and it wouldn't boot up the hard drive at all.
A few days later I order a new hard drive, install a genuine copy of Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium, everything was working. I put my computer case back on and the hard drive is no longer found. I wiggle everything around some more and I get it to work, but I keep the case open. I come to the conclusion that the wires are at fault here. I bought new SATA cables and everything is working somewhat decently. But there are a few problems.
First of all, in my games I get these massive FPS drops. I checked everything, the temperature of the CPU and GPU are fine. I have 8 GB of RAM so that should be fine as well (though it can get up to 80% with some games). I check the processes and the CPU ranges from 10%-40%, so that isn't an issue. The GPU can get maxed out depending on the game, but that is to be expected. I'm not exactly sure what is causing this huge FPS drop that only lasts around a second. I installed the games on the hard drive, not the SSD.
For example, I'm playing Diablo 3. The game is on max settings, I'm averaging 70 FPS. But when I use an ability, the game literally freezes for a second, the FPS drops to 0 then skips to 20, then back to 60-70. This lag is especially bad in World of Warcraft, where if I just move the FPS will skip around (I assume it's because of loading in the world or something). But what's odd is I just tried playing BF4 (on high settings) and the amount of FPS drops and skipping was minimal.
Another issue is that this computer has blue screened twice since I got the new HD (The HD is a hybrid drive, WD Black² Dual Drive 2.5" 120 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD is the products name). Not exactly sure what's causing this issue, but I hope it doesn't mean my motherboard or something is on the way out.
Would appreciate any amount of help towards either of these issues! And sorry if this isn't in the right section, but I wasn't quite sure where to put it (This could fit in the storage section as well I suppose).
More info about my system:
AMD Radeon HD 7850 - 2GB
Intel® Core™ i5-3570K Processor (4x 3.40GHz/6MB L3 Cache)
8 GB [4 GB X2] DDR3-1600 Memory Module
700 Watt power supply
If there's anything else needed I can update!
A few days later I order a new hard drive, install a genuine copy of Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium, everything was working. I put my computer case back on and the hard drive is no longer found. I wiggle everything around some more and I get it to work, but I keep the case open. I come to the conclusion that the wires are at fault here. I bought new SATA cables and everything is working somewhat decently. But there are a few problems.
First of all, in my games I get these massive FPS drops. I checked everything, the temperature of the CPU and GPU are fine. I have 8 GB of RAM so that should be fine as well (though it can get up to 80% with some games). I check the processes and the CPU ranges from 10%-40%, so that isn't an issue. The GPU can get maxed out depending on the game, but that is to be expected. I'm not exactly sure what is causing this huge FPS drop that only lasts around a second. I installed the games on the hard drive, not the SSD.
For example, I'm playing Diablo 3. The game is on max settings, I'm averaging 70 FPS. But when I use an ability, the game literally freezes for a second, the FPS drops to 0 then skips to 20, then back to 60-70. This lag is especially bad in World of Warcraft, where if I just move the FPS will skip around (I assume it's because of loading in the world or something). But what's odd is I just tried playing BF4 (on high settings) and the amount of FPS drops and skipping was minimal.
Another issue is that this computer has blue screened twice since I got the new HD (The HD is a hybrid drive, WD Black² Dual Drive 2.5" 120 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD is the products name). Not exactly sure what's causing this issue, but I hope it doesn't mean my motherboard or something is on the way out.
Would appreciate any amount of help towards either of these issues! And sorry if this isn't in the right section, but I wasn't quite sure where to put it (This could fit in the storage section as well I suppose).
More info about my system:
AMD Radeon HD 7850 - 2GB
Intel® Core™ i5-3570K Processor (4x 3.40GHz/6MB L3 Cache)
8 GB [4 GB X2] DDR3-1600 Memory Module
700 Watt power supply
If there's anything else needed I can update!
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