Computer Incredibly Unstable

thehobolife

Commendable
May 11, 2016
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As of a few weeks ago, my computer has become a pile of metal. Current Specs are
CPU : Amd fx 8350
MOBO : Gigabyte 970a-d3p
SSD : Mushkin chronos 120gb
HDD : Samsung 1tb st1000dm005
PSU : OCZ Fatality 750watt bronze
GPU : Gigabyte geforce 970 4gb
RAM : 16gb g skill
I have windows 7 installed on the ssd, and the other drive is bare. I have reinstalled windows, and it will run perfectly normal for maybe a week, and then slowly drive itself into the ground. It always gets the beep on startup, and to the splash screen for boot options and go to bios, f8 and del etc. When it starts to "die" it will take almost 15 minutes to boot into windows, which then it will only have a black screen, and my mouse. ( I have dual monitor 1 vga, 1 dvi) It will then slowly load my desktop, which has 3 icons on it (trash, league of legends, steam.) It is unresponsive, and when i mouseover icons or quick start items, it takes maybe 20 seconds to even show the little highlight over the icon. Takes about 40 minutes to turn off the computer. After I reinstall windows on bare ssd, I install basic drivers, lan, video card etc. When installing things, it will completely stop, like for example it will stop at 50% and not respond, after a few minutes it will complete. Loading into safe mode, allowed me to use windows for maybe 15 seconds, booted normally. After the 15 seconds it became unusably slow. I was in a game of "League Of Legends" and it would freeze randomly, so bad to where it would stay on the same frame for 20 seconds, but the sounds would still play, after it would come back, the sounds were all off time. I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but I have never seen it before. If you have any questions I am more than happy to answer. If this is in the wrong section, my apologies. I have also ran ssd health check, it says it was healthy. Did a 2 hour prime 95 which worked fine I assume got no errors. Switched out ram sticks to see if that helped, to no avail. Also have ran gpu benchmarks which, have lasted about 1 hour, with no errors.
 
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Hi there thehobolife,

As after OS install, your system runs fine for some time, then something kind of gets fixed for a while and deteriorates again. This is why, it may be a good idea to troubleshoot your drives.
In case your system boots fine now, my advise would be to check the health status of both drives. You can use a brand specific tool for your SSD and use some of these for your HDD: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility

In case your can't properly boot, my suggestion would be to reinstall OS once again. Is the SSD the only drive attached to the system during the installation process? In case it is not, you should take your HDD out.

Apart from that, you've mentioned about switching RAM...
Hi there thehobolife,

As after OS install, your system runs fine for some time, then something kind of gets fixed for a while and deteriorates again. This is why, it may be a good idea to troubleshoot your drives.
In case your system boots fine now, my advise would be to check the health status of both drives. You can use a brand specific tool for your SSD and use some of these for your HDD: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility

In case your can't properly boot, my suggestion would be to reinstall OS once again. Is the SSD the only drive attached to the system during the installation process? In case it is not, you should take your HDD out.

Apart from that, you've mentioned about switching RAM sticks. Have you tried running your system with just a single RAM stick?

Let me know how this goes,
D_Know_WD :)
 
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thehobolife

Commendable
May 11, 2016
2
0
1,510
Turns out, one the dimm slots is broken somehow. I can put any one of my 4 sticks, into 3 of the slots. But the one closest to my cpu, is broken. It will not boot if there is a single stick in that "broken" slot.