- Jun 26, 2014
- 24
- 0
- 4,510
Hey,
I am having issues with my computer and I was hoping to get some help. For the past 3-4 months, my computer is acting strange (slow to respond, drivers missing upon waking up from standby, BSOD, not shutting down). All of this occurs randomly and sporadically so I can't figure out a pattern to pinpoint what the problem is. I thought it was due to the new windows 10 anniversary update because everything was happening soon after I updated.
Here is the post of what was happening with my computer a few months ago:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3217533/multiple-issues-driver-related.html
Right now, I think I got it under control I disabled my antivirus (Kaspersky) and it seemed to the culprit in most of the issues.
However, I still have 1 more issue that is still occuring, I think it has to do with the hard drive. So I have 3 hard drives installed. One is an SSD where my OS is installed. The other 2 hard drives are 2 TB WD red HD for storage and backup. I made a 2 way mirror with them with storage spaces.
The problem that I have is that the computer would essentially crash/freeze so I couldn't do anything. The programs would just say "not responding" and then I would have to force shut down. However, after I force shut down it would be all good again, until about 2-3 days and it would occur again.
I've noticed that the hard drives are very loud and noisy. So this is what made me think that it is a hard drive problem. Also in the storage spaces, it says that the drives are disconnected, so it must be failing I assume. However, every time I restart my computer the drives appear fine and storage spaces says everything is good. In addition I ran the WD Data Diagnostic Lifetime Tool on the drives and it said it was good.
However the issues appear when I standby my computer and turn it back up again after a while. Every time I restart my computer, everything is good again. It just gets bad when my computer hasn't been shut down for 2-3 days. Then the storage spaces says my drives are disconnected the data diagnostic tool says the drive is bad.
So is my drive failing? Why is it okay every time I restart my computer? Also since I have 2 hard drives (I have two 2TB WD red) how do I know which one is failing?
Also when I first installed my 2 WD red drives, windows did not recognize it. I could see my drives in BIOs but they did not show up in disk management. That is why I had to make a storage space for it (it recognized the drives when I set up storage spaces). I don't know if the reason for that is that the drives were already bad?
Sorry that is a lot. I feel like it is a hard drive issue, but I don't know if that is the only thing that is wrong. Any insight or advice would be great.
I am having issues with my computer and I was hoping to get some help. For the past 3-4 months, my computer is acting strange (slow to respond, drivers missing upon waking up from standby, BSOD, not shutting down). All of this occurs randomly and sporadically so I can't figure out a pattern to pinpoint what the problem is. I thought it was due to the new windows 10 anniversary update because everything was happening soon after I updated.
Here is the post of what was happening with my computer a few months ago:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3217533/multiple-issues-driver-related.html
Right now, I think I got it under control I disabled my antivirus (Kaspersky) and it seemed to the culprit in most of the issues.
However, I still have 1 more issue that is still occuring, I think it has to do with the hard drive. So I have 3 hard drives installed. One is an SSD where my OS is installed. The other 2 hard drives are 2 TB WD red HD for storage and backup. I made a 2 way mirror with them with storage spaces.
The problem that I have is that the computer would essentially crash/freeze so I couldn't do anything. The programs would just say "not responding" and then I would have to force shut down. However, after I force shut down it would be all good again, until about 2-3 days and it would occur again.
I've noticed that the hard drives are very loud and noisy. So this is what made me think that it is a hard drive problem. Also in the storage spaces, it says that the drives are disconnected, so it must be failing I assume. However, every time I restart my computer the drives appear fine and storage spaces says everything is good. In addition I ran the WD Data Diagnostic Lifetime Tool on the drives and it said it was good.
However the issues appear when I standby my computer and turn it back up again after a while. Every time I restart my computer, everything is good again. It just gets bad when my computer hasn't been shut down for 2-3 days. Then the storage spaces says my drives are disconnected the data diagnostic tool says the drive is bad.
So is my drive failing? Why is it okay every time I restart my computer? Also since I have 2 hard drives (I have two 2TB WD red) how do I know which one is failing?
Also when I first installed my 2 WD red drives, windows did not recognize it. I could see my drives in BIOs but they did not show up in disk management. That is why I had to make a storage space for it (it recognized the drives when I set up storage spaces). I don't know if the reason for that is that the drives were already bad?
Sorry that is a lot. I feel like it is a hard drive issue, but I don't know if that is the only thing that is wrong. Any insight or advice would be great.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram