Brace yourselves this is a very long multi-stage problem.
I'm hoping to figure out:
+is my gpu okay
+is my ssd crashing or was it just the cable
+why my game launchers will not work
My Specs are:
OS: Windows 8.1
Processor: FX 6300
Mother Board: Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
GPU: HD Radeon 7800
Storage: 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD (C:\ has my os) and Seagate Barracuda 2TB Hardrive (H:\ has muh games)
Thanks so much in advance for any help or insight that can be provided!
I want to tell the story from the beginning because it might be necessary for the solution. I have been noticing slowness the last couple months in my CPU (it was built 3 years ago by me) This was more prevalent when opening Chrome and my file browsers, but I was lazy and put off system maintenance. The serious problems started sometime this week when I was playing the new MOBA Paragon. The game recommended I play in 1080 x ??? resolution which was way under the 1920x1080 I run everything else on. So i changed it and ran it for several days with absolutely no problem. Frame rate was above 30fps at almost all times. Well then one day it crashes about 3 min after getting in game and I get an error message [Your ??? (I think it said graphics processor but I can't recall specific wording) has run out of storage space.] This was completely mind blowing to me because even when I have ran games completely above my cards ability, I have never got crashing, just low framerate. This has been this case with every com I've ever owned. They aren't supposed to just fail right?
I immediately began maintenance. After running thorough virus/malware scans nothing changed so I started updating drivers. I was using AMD's Catalyst Control and tried to update to the new Radeon Crimson Ed. Now it wouldn't update. I did some searching on here and found I needed to completely wipe the old drivers and try again. I did this and decided to use just the basic installer. That worked but then I tried to run the full one and it kept freezing at around 2% (EDIT: at "Currently installing: AMD install manager", and it is still doing this as I just tried again). I noticed that I had very little storage left on my SSD so i erased all remaining games off of it and now had 40+ GB. i stopped worrying about the Crimson Edition since all the basic drivers for it were all installed. I know through searching these forum that the new installer is in general buggy.
(Around this time I run FurMark, my graphics card runs for 19 min and tops out at 92 degrees with 78% fan speed for the last 12min or so. 34fps min, no crashing. I assume this is within newer gpu safe parameters and so I am thinking the Paragon crash was not GPU related.)
Now I move on to cleaning my drives and clearing unnecessary files. I run some CCleaner and some other software to make sure my registry is good. Then I get to my os diagnostic and fix tool, the one that comes with windows. It asks to restart and begin off boot. This now freezes at 11%, no matter how many times I restart or reboot it wont progress. I had to skip the disk check eventually. After further research i d/l seagates SeaTools. My SSD fails the short DST at 10%, fails 2nd try at 90%, then passes the 3rd. i try again and it fails at 10%. I assume my hard drive is failing but I read somewhere on here someones failed because of a faulty SATA cable. So I go out and purchase a new SSD just in case. (Before go out I try to run Paragon again and the launcher will now not come up, even with run as administrator) I replace the the old SSD's SATA cable first before using or backing up the new one(I want to avoid using it so i can return it if its not needed, was $75) and try a boot.
SeaTools now passes the DST everytime. All other tests are fine. I download SSDlife pro and it says my life is 99% 8 more years. So I assume it was just the cable. I havn't copied my ssd to the new one yet because I want to be able to return it if it was just the cable. The initial boot took longer than when I first got my pc but was still okay and now file browser chrome etc. is running fast again (YAY!) or so I thought. However, the launcher will still not open. the launcher for Smite will not work either. However Lol and other games still boot normally. So now I'm overwhelmed and utterly confused.
Now i'm wondering: Was this a GPU issue that just happened to identify a SSD issue? Was the cable all I needed to replace? Why will my games not boot? Do i have a driver/os/registry problem?
What do you guys think?
What other tests/processes would you try to run? Do you need more information?
-Zach
I'm hoping to figure out:
+is my gpu okay
+is my ssd crashing or was it just the cable
+why my game launchers will not work
My Specs are:
OS: Windows 8.1
Processor: FX 6300
Mother Board: Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
GPU: HD Radeon 7800
Storage: 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD (C:\ has my os) and Seagate Barracuda 2TB Hardrive (H:\ has muh games)
Thanks so much in advance for any help or insight that can be provided!
I want to tell the story from the beginning because it might be necessary for the solution. I have been noticing slowness the last couple months in my CPU (it was built 3 years ago by me) This was more prevalent when opening Chrome and my file browsers, but I was lazy and put off system maintenance. The serious problems started sometime this week when I was playing the new MOBA Paragon. The game recommended I play in 1080 x ??? resolution which was way under the 1920x1080 I run everything else on. So i changed it and ran it for several days with absolutely no problem. Frame rate was above 30fps at almost all times. Well then one day it crashes about 3 min after getting in game and I get an error message [Your ??? (I think it said graphics processor but I can't recall specific wording) has run out of storage space.] This was completely mind blowing to me because even when I have ran games completely above my cards ability, I have never got crashing, just low framerate. This has been this case with every com I've ever owned. They aren't supposed to just fail right?
I immediately began maintenance. After running thorough virus/malware scans nothing changed so I started updating drivers. I was using AMD's Catalyst Control and tried to update to the new Radeon Crimson Ed. Now it wouldn't update. I did some searching on here and found I needed to completely wipe the old drivers and try again. I did this and decided to use just the basic installer. That worked but then I tried to run the full one and it kept freezing at around 2% (EDIT: at "Currently installing: AMD install manager", and it is still doing this as I just tried again). I noticed that I had very little storage left on my SSD so i erased all remaining games off of it and now had 40+ GB. i stopped worrying about the Crimson Edition since all the basic drivers for it were all installed. I know through searching these forum that the new installer is in general buggy.
(Around this time I run FurMark, my graphics card runs for 19 min and tops out at 92 degrees with 78% fan speed for the last 12min or so. 34fps min, no crashing. I assume this is within newer gpu safe parameters and so I am thinking the Paragon crash was not GPU related.)
Now I move on to cleaning my drives and clearing unnecessary files. I run some CCleaner and some other software to make sure my registry is good. Then I get to my os diagnostic and fix tool, the one that comes with windows. It asks to restart and begin off boot. This now freezes at 11%, no matter how many times I restart or reboot it wont progress. I had to skip the disk check eventually. After further research i d/l seagates SeaTools. My SSD fails the short DST at 10%, fails 2nd try at 90%, then passes the 3rd. i try again and it fails at 10%. I assume my hard drive is failing but I read somewhere on here someones failed because of a faulty SATA cable. So I go out and purchase a new SSD just in case. (Before go out I try to run Paragon again and the launcher will now not come up, even with run as administrator) I replace the the old SSD's SATA cable first before using or backing up the new one(I want to avoid using it so i can return it if its not needed, was $75) and try a boot.
SeaTools now passes the DST everytime. All other tests are fine. I download SSDlife pro and it says my life is 99% 8 more years. So I assume it was just the cable. I havn't copied my ssd to the new one yet because I want to be able to return it if it was just the cable. The initial boot took longer than when I first got my pc but was still okay and now file browser chrome etc. is running fast again (YAY!) or so I thought. However, the launcher will still not open. the launcher for Smite will not work either. However Lol and other games still boot normally. So now I'm overwhelmed and utterly confused.
Now i'm wondering: Was this a GPU issue that just happened to identify a SSD issue? Was the cable all I needed to replace? Why will my games not boot? Do i have a driver/os/registry problem?
What do you guys think?
What other tests/processes would you try to run? Do you need more information?
-Zach
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