- Oct 6, 2012
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Hello everyone,
I was attempting to play Killing Floor 2 when it hung at the splash screen. Shutting down the processes with Ctrl Alt Dlt wouldn't even work, so I tried to reset the PC. It then hung at the shutdown screen, so I was forced to hard restart it.
The startup was slow, taking around 40 seconds (5 seconds normally) The mouse and keyboard lights turned off for around 4 seconds before turning back on.
The PC also randomly hangs/freezes (including input devices) from anywhere from a fraction of a second to several seconds.
At one point, the HDD failed to show up in the list of available drives, but it seems okay now. It has also made a couple weird noises I don't recall hearing before.
Is this likely a power failure, or is it something else? If so, is it safe to use the PC while I wait for a new power supply to arrive? Are there any tests to isolate the problem?
*Possibly related: For the last couple weeks the shutdown button on the start bar has had an update indicator which won't go away. Could the hard restart have messed up some windows file causing these problems?
So far, I have:
Checked the hard drives for errors
Updated video drivers
Checked memory
Thank you very much for any help.
PC:
Windows 7
Radeon R9 280X
8 GB RAM
i5-3570K CPU @ 3.4GHz
2 TB HDD
128 GB SSD
XFX PRO550W Core edition PS
Edit: Now that I've checked it some more, the HDD really hangs when I try to access any files (Meanwhile the SSD is just peachy). It seems like that's the problem. Should I remove the HDD and check if it helps?
But why would the PC take 10x as long to startup when the OS is on the SSD, not the HDD?
I was attempting to play Killing Floor 2 when it hung at the splash screen. Shutting down the processes with Ctrl Alt Dlt wouldn't even work, so I tried to reset the PC. It then hung at the shutdown screen, so I was forced to hard restart it.
The startup was slow, taking around 40 seconds (5 seconds normally) The mouse and keyboard lights turned off for around 4 seconds before turning back on.
The PC also randomly hangs/freezes (including input devices) from anywhere from a fraction of a second to several seconds.
At one point, the HDD failed to show up in the list of available drives, but it seems okay now. It has also made a couple weird noises I don't recall hearing before.
Is this likely a power failure, or is it something else? If so, is it safe to use the PC while I wait for a new power supply to arrive? Are there any tests to isolate the problem?
*Possibly related: For the last couple weeks the shutdown button on the start bar has had an update indicator which won't go away. Could the hard restart have messed up some windows file causing these problems?
So far, I have:
Checked the hard drives for errors
Updated video drivers
Checked memory
Thank you very much for any help.
PC:
Windows 7
Radeon R9 280X
8 GB RAM
i5-3570K CPU @ 3.4GHz
2 TB HDD
128 GB SSD
XFX PRO550W Core edition PS
Edit: Now that I've checked it some more, the HDD really hangs when I try to access any files (Meanwhile the SSD is just peachy). It seems like that's the problem. Should I remove the HDD and check if it helps?
But why would the PC take 10x as long to startup when the OS is on the SSD, not the HDD?
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