Ok, so here's the thing.
My roomate's PC crashes out of nowhere. When this happens, the BIOS can't recognize the HDD and he has to restart the computer manually so the system recognizes it. This can happen just chillin in desktop or playing games.Sometimes while booting windows.
This has happened from years, now. When he bought his pc the problem was already there. This made difficult to install windows and all. All the previous times he formatted and installed windows the problem appeared but it stopped after a week, tops.
Sometimes, the computer crashes, but after 3 or 4 seconds, it keep working as always.
He had the theory that was related to his HDD, because the first time that happened, the HDD led stopped flashing. Also, the problem stopped when he installed large games like GTAV and BF1.
This time it was different. He had to format and install windows from scratch. He installed all his games and stuff but the crashing never stopped. He asked for my help and we started doing test to find the source of the problem:
- We plugged his HDD in my pc. After like 40 minutes, it never crashed down.
- I plugged my HDD in his pc. After like more than one hour later, it has not crashed down.
The problem has persisted even though he has changed his mobo and his PSU since he built his system, therefore, we can discard those variables.
ROOMATE PC SPECS
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
AMD FX-8320 33 °C
Vishera 32nm Technology
RAM
16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 669MHz (9-9-9-23) FURY BLACK KINGSTON 4gb x 2 and corsair vengance 8gb (the problem existed before adding the
corsair module)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. GA-970-Gaming SLI-CF (CPU 1) 41 °C
Graphics
VX228 (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (MSI GAMING X) 38 °C
Storage
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-00BN5A0 (SATA) 27 °C
Optical Drives
No optical disk drives detected
Audio
NVIDIA High Definition Audio
We don't know what it can be, and money is an issue, Any ideas would help. Thank you very much.
My roomate's PC crashes out of nowhere. When this happens, the BIOS can't recognize the HDD and he has to restart the computer manually so the system recognizes it. This can happen just chillin in desktop or playing games.Sometimes while booting windows.
This has happened from years, now. When he bought his pc the problem was already there. This made difficult to install windows and all. All the previous times he formatted and installed windows the problem appeared but it stopped after a week, tops.
Sometimes, the computer crashes, but after 3 or 4 seconds, it keep working as always.
He had the theory that was related to his HDD, because the first time that happened, the HDD led stopped flashing. Also, the problem stopped when he installed large games like GTAV and BF1.
This time it was different. He had to format and install windows from scratch. He installed all his games and stuff but the crashing never stopped. He asked for my help and we started doing test to find the source of the problem:
- We plugged his HDD in my pc. After like 40 minutes, it never crashed down.
- I plugged my HDD in his pc. After like more than one hour later, it has not crashed down.
The problem has persisted even though he has changed his mobo and his PSU since he built his system, therefore, we can discard those variables.
ROOMATE PC SPECS
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
AMD FX-8320 33 °C
Vishera 32nm Technology
RAM
16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 669MHz (9-9-9-23) FURY BLACK KINGSTON 4gb x 2 and corsair vengance 8gb (the problem existed before adding the
corsair module)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. GA-970-Gaming SLI-CF (CPU 1) 41 °C
Graphics
VX228 (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (MSI GAMING X) 38 °C
Storage
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-00BN5A0 (SATA) 27 °C
Optical Drives
No optical disk drives detected
Audio
NVIDIA High Definition Audio
We don't know what it can be, and money is an issue, Any ideas would help. Thank you very much.
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