I think my HDD went bad, how do I know?

Kittenlover · May 29, 2015

I'm playing the new Witcher and suddenly the game freaks out when i open a menu or do any other odd number of things. Like it will load forever and the sound will be completely absent for a few seconds before playing all at once. I have a Seagate barricuda 1tb, have had it for about half a year.

I made a reddit thread asking for help and no one seemed to be able to help. There was a huge amount of information we compiled though. http://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/37ol6o/computer_began_to_run_very_oddly_since_last_night/

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Also I just formated my drive to see if that was it and reinstalled windows, same problem still exists. It also happens in ESO.

scout_03 · May 29, 2015

this from seagate to test your hdd http://www.seagate.com/ca/en/support/downloads/seatools/

Kittenlover · May 30, 2015

Says it's passing, any idea what it is man?

scout_03 · May 30, 2015

check your gpu temp voltages and fan speed use this on sensor page http://www.hwinfo.com/download.php report what it found and if you had any crash use this one it will read minidump in plain text http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed also check if there is update from the game .

Kittenlover · May 31, 2015

It's saying that my cpu temp is is 8.3c which can't be right. These programs for some reason never read my cpu temp right. Voltages is around 30-35 watts, jumps around. The fan speed is 1313

scout_03 · May 31, 2015

post a picture of the sensor page reading would like to give a look at her .

Kittenlover · May 31, 2015

Here you go, thanks for the help as well!

http://imgur.com/a/lzPRE

scout_03 · May 31, 2015

did you try to reduce game play settings in gpu to middle and low also post name and model of all parts in system that wil be usefull .

Kittenlover · May 31, 2015

I did, same problems. I have a M5 A97 R2.0 Motherboard, gskill sniper series ram 8gb, seagate 1tb hdd, 750watt psu, asus 970 strix and a fx 8320 cpu.

scout_03 · May 31, 2015

check your bios version it need bios 1006 for the regular fx 8320 and the version 2501 for the fx8320e also if you have a old video card around try her for test you could also try the gpu in the second slot to see if issue still on .

Kittenlover · Jun 1, 2015

Strangely enough I just updated the bios to the new setting and the issue seemed to resolve itself. I don't know why it ran for months fine but suddenly decided to act up but I guess no one really understands computers to the fullest. Thanks again mate, cheers!

scout_03 · Jun 1, 2015

from the time you build and today they where some os updade so system could bug will old bios they made new one to resolve those issue .

Kittenlover · Jun 2, 2015

Very odd how it did it all the sudden, like I didn't even have to restart my computer to see it happen...I saw it in real time. Odd. Thank you though

scout_03 · Jun 2, 2015

sometimes if there is a driver that is obsolete system also bug = microsoft way .

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