- Jan 24, 2016
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Hey everyone! First I'll give a parts list:
Intel 4590
Seagate Barracuda HDD
OZC-ARC 100 240GB
Gskill DDR3 RAM 8gb
AsRock H97 pro
XFX 290x
750 watt Bronze rated psu
Acer Monitor Model number S241HL
A few days ago my monitor stopped picking up a signal from my tower, and after turning the pc off and on this problem fixed itself, but I noticed that my system was generally running sluggishly. It was noticeable to the point where I decided to test things further by running a steam game and checking my fps. Skyrim, where I normally get an easy and seady 60fps on ultra was a steady 50 with drops down as low as 3 when I would move around, on low settings. I also tested this with several other games, and the problem persists.
In addition to this sluggishness and low FPS in games, my startup time is noticeably slower than it has been in the past, and the monitor still randomly loses signal from the tower.
SSD: I downloaded SSD guru from OZC and updated/optimized the drive. Ran the CMD program to test the drive health and found no problems. I also defragmented and trimmed via the windows program. I ran Crystaldisk and found my SSD to be in good health with 99% life remaining. As a side note, the SSD is less than 50% full. I double checked that my AHCI setting is correct in BIOS.
HDD: I also ran Crystaldisk on my HDD and found that it was at 100% health. Also ran the CMD program to test drive health and it read no errors. NOTE: I unplugged my HDD to see if it was the culprit in slowing down the PC, and my PC gave me a 'insert bootable drive or media' and my computer would not boot. This is strange to me because windows is installed on my SSD, so I shouldn't need my HDD to boot. I checked my boot order in BIOS and found that my SSD is indeed first in the boot order, so I'm not sure why this is happening.
RAM: I ran Memtest64 for 8 passes over my ram and found zero errors. Also ran windows memory diagnostics and found no problems. All 8gb's are read by my computer according to taskmanager's performance tab, and I have not exceeded 50% use at any point. It is interesting to note that in the first week after I built my pc (this past June) my RAM randomly was filled and I was experiencing a similar FPS drop. After running windows memory diagnostics, the problem was gone somehow, and everything functioned beautifully.
GPU: I updated my drivers to Hawaii and ran the Valley benchmark on extreme, monitoring with (some program my friend recommended, don't remember the name) and found that things seemed normal. I was surprised to see that virtual memory was in use, but apparently that is normal?
Other things:
Ran a virus scan and somehow found two malware programs, erased both of them, no change.
Checked all of my plugs inside of the PC to make sure nothing was loose.
Attempted to restore windows to an earlier date, got a message saying that files were missing, so I used my free update to windows 10, no change. Ran windows health scan with CMD and found no missing or corrupted files.
I am clueless as to what may be causing these symptoms. A friend suggested that I RMA my GPU, but would a bad GPU cause a sluggish system outside of games? Could either of my memory drives pass Cleardisk but still be faulty? Could my RAM pass memtest and still be faulty?
Thank you all so much for taking the time to read this.
Intel 4590
Seagate Barracuda HDD
OZC-ARC 100 240GB
Gskill DDR3 RAM 8gb
AsRock H97 pro
XFX 290x
750 watt Bronze rated psu
Acer Monitor Model number S241HL
A few days ago my monitor stopped picking up a signal from my tower, and after turning the pc off and on this problem fixed itself, but I noticed that my system was generally running sluggishly. It was noticeable to the point where I decided to test things further by running a steam game and checking my fps. Skyrim, where I normally get an easy and seady 60fps on ultra was a steady 50 with drops down as low as 3 when I would move around, on low settings. I also tested this with several other games, and the problem persists.
In addition to this sluggishness and low FPS in games, my startup time is noticeably slower than it has been in the past, and the monitor still randomly loses signal from the tower.
SSD: I downloaded SSD guru from OZC and updated/optimized the drive. Ran the CMD program to test the drive health and found no problems. I also defragmented and trimmed via the windows program. I ran Crystaldisk and found my SSD to be in good health with 99% life remaining. As a side note, the SSD is less than 50% full. I double checked that my AHCI setting is correct in BIOS.
HDD: I also ran Crystaldisk on my HDD and found that it was at 100% health. Also ran the CMD program to test drive health and it read no errors. NOTE: I unplugged my HDD to see if it was the culprit in slowing down the PC, and my PC gave me a 'insert bootable drive or media' and my computer would not boot. This is strange to me because windows is installed on my SSD, so I shouldn't need my HDD to boot. I checked my boot order in BIOS and found that my SSD is indeed first in the boot order, so I'm not sure why this is happening.
RAM: I ran Memtest64 for 8 passes over my ram and found zero errors. Also ran windows memory diagnostics and found no problems. All 8gb's are read by my computer according to taskmanager's performance tab, and I have not exceeded 50% use at any point. It is interesting to note that in the first week after I built my pc (this past June) my RAM randomly was filled and I was experiencing a similar FPS drop. After running windows memory diagnostics, the problem was gone somehow, and everything functioned beautifully.
GPU: I updated my drivers to Hawaii and ran the Valley benchmark on extreme, monitoring with (some program my friend recommended, don't remember the name) and found that things seemed normal. I was surprised to see that virtual memory was in use, but apparently that is normal?
Other things:
Ran a virus scan and somehow found two malware programs, erased both of them, no change.
Checked all of my plugs inside of the PC to make sure nothing was loose.
Attempted to restore windows to an earlier date, got a message saying that files were missing, so I used my free update to windows 10, no change. Ran windows health scan with CMD and found no missing or corrupted files.
I am clueless as to what may be causing these symptoms. A friend suggested that I RMA my GPU, but would a bad GPU cause a sluggish system outside of games? Could either of my memory drives pass Cleardisk but still be faulty? Could my RAM pass memtest and still be faulty?
Thank you all so much for taking the time to read this.
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