Help me troubleshoot - Computer freezes, having BSOD etc.

2Nikolai

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Hey community

I build my computer years ago and have had problems with month apart. I have been a user of the community for a long time and read many solution to many different problems. But mine keeps returning.

I haven't experienced everything, but I have had several different BSOD and computer freezes. But what always fixed my problem has been 2 things. Waiting till next day and hope for it to magically work and switch between the SATA ports on the motherboard. Although many of the solutions conclude some kind of software failure or hard disc failure, this is not the case or is it?. I have formatted the hard disc, bought a new, reinstalled windows and etc. One thing I haven't done is change the motherboard.

I'm on the edge of buying a new computer, but that is expensive and my computer runs most the games perfectly. The only thing falling behind for the upcoming Battlefield game is my GPU. I'm finally writing this, in hope that someone can help me get this problem solved, so I can make a safe investment in a new GPU or for someone to tell me, that fixing my computer is a waste of time and that I should by a new one.

Thanks for reading :)
 
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GameFreak01048

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Feb 17, 2016
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Hello!

So with your computer what exactly is happening?

Do you get any error codes? If so drop them in this forum and we'll see what we can dig up :)

In order to get to the bottom of this for good, we'll need to know what's making it so troublesome to use, we'll get this sorted for sure :)
 

2Nikolai

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Sep 22, 2016
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I've had more than i can remember, but some of the most recent BSOD is "irql_not_less_or_equal" and something with kernel.

The problem I'm experiencing now is just freezing. The computer freezes with nothing specific triggering it and then has problems starting again, where it just goes with a black screen and sometimes with a flashing underscore with the only option to restart. Sometimes it will allow me to do the repair, but also gets stuck there.

But every singe time, the solution ends up being to switch SATA ports or the computer magically working again.
 

GameFreak01048

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So when you switch the HDD SATA port on the motherboard and plug the HDD into a different port it starts to work again? That sounds either like a motherboard issue or HDD issue at this stage.
 
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