Pc freezes. May be HDD problem?

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sirjuicylemon

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Hello community.
I am running on a PC build with a kind of old and cheap HDD from probably almost 10 years ago because I have a SSD that doesn't work (someone of my family formatted my PC many, many times on my SSD trying to solve some motherboard problems, and so probably corrupted my SSD or something).

Anyways, the thing is that with this new build, with a new motherboard but an old HDD, I have been experiencing random freezes, which used to be like 1 in an entire day, but now are kind of 3 or more in a day. Sometimes it freezes really bad so it doesn't responds and I have to manually reset my PC, sometimes (rarely) it freezes by a short amount of time and then unfreezes and keeps normally, with a sound of a USB peripherical disconnecting/unplugging.

As far as I know my PC shouldn't have any kind of problems with the build itself more than maybe the old HDD which may causing all of this freezing, but the sound Windows makes after unfreezing keeps me thinking that it may be a bad USB port on the motherboard or something... (I don't really know, it's just a suggestion).

In any case here's my build:
CPU: AMD FX-6300 Six core
GPU: AMD Radeon HD7770
Motherboard: MSI 970 gaming
PSU: Spektra 500W
HDD: WesternDigital (blue brand one) 500GB HDD
RAM: 2 x HyperX Fury 4GB (DDR3 and 1866MHz)

Please grant me your suggestions, ideas or solutions.
Many thanks!

 
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Dunlop0078

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CPU and GPU temps under load?

Could be the hard drive, I would run a disk check and see if it returns any errors. Just open command prompt and enter the command 'chkdsk C:' without the quotes.

I also wouldn't rule out that power supply, it is pretty low quality.

 
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Yeah, I was thinking about the PSU too.
I'm going to check the temp of both CPU and GPU, but just to do ti properly, what do you mean with "under load"? (sorry, I'm bad at english) Is it like while doing stuff that requires a lot of effort for the PC? (like playing a game, opening a lot of programs at the same time, using a 3d render program like benchmarks, and stuf... ?)

Also I ran a chkdsk before and I think it didn't detect anything out of normal. Also used today a program called EaseUS partition Master and checked my HDD with it, and again nothing out of normal. (Although after I did the chkdsk some of my programs like Steam and others had to re-register my PC as a certified device for my account's use and stuff, so I had to re-confirm the email verification and all that).

I was also wondering if defragmenting my HDD would be useful in this case. I have no idea tbh, just a suggestion again.
 
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Yes, when the CPU and GPU are doing something, say running a game or benchmark. You can use a program like HWmonitor to check the temps, just open it and leave it open while you play a game or run a benchmark and either post a screenshot of it or tell me what the max temps are after playing, there will be columns for real time temp, average temp since the program was opened, and maximum temp. Idle temps, when the computer is doing nothing, would be helpful as well.

Disk check will tax the hard drive heavily so if your computer did not freeze and no errors showed up that is a good indicator that the hard drive is not causing the freezes.

A defrag is good to do every once and while for hard drive performance, but it is very unlikely it would solve a freezing issue.
 
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Here is my PC on a normal use of it:
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And here's on load, playing Overwatch:
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