Harddrive issues?

I probably should add that the application crash and freeze were while playing a game that is in its beta stages, however the display crash was in League of Legends.

Physical damage to a disk will usually kill it outright. It will start making this lovely clicking noise, and that's the last you'll be able to use it.

That said, CHKDSK doesn't diagnose disks. It just tells you if information is corrupted, and tries to fix it. You want to run a S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic, which is designed to give you early warning on hard drive failure.

Go download SpeedFan. It's a free tool that gives you the temperatures of your computer components, and as a bonus, can diagnose your hard drive. It will even explain to you what the various scores in the test mean.

If that comes back and says your drive is on the verge of failure, I'd talk to Seagate and explain the situation and see if they'll RMA the drive anyway.

As far as the display going out, that doesn't sound remotely related. Your monitor isn't capable of crashing, anyway. It just displays the signal that's coming over the wire.

Finally, you're giving some conflicting information. You say in your first post that your computer has frozen multiple times, but in the second describe what's happened as an "application crash." What exactly happened? Did the application (beta game) simply freeze? Or did the entire computer crash? A piece of beta software freezing isn't exactly unusual.

If the HDD is over 3 years old it's time to retire it anyway. Clone your old HDD to a new one or possibly an SSD or install a fresh OS and migrate data from the old one as needed.

I've run a S.M.A.R.T. test as a part of the Seatools software, the harddrive passed said test. I'm starting to think that maybe the Computer repair center screwed something up, would this be a logical conclusion after the drive passes the SMART test?

The display going out was information related, not monitor related, i got an error from windows, forums elsewhere suggested this could be related to information not being read from the harddrive properly so I felt listing it could help.

Further to clarify, the computer has frozen twice at the desktop in the last 2 weeks while idle. The application crash probably wasn't a huge issue, but I was unsure whether the graphics issue was potentially harddrive related.

The HDD is two months old, I just built the computer in December so I wasn't sure why I was having any issues period.

EDIT: Installed Speedfan, its SMART scores gave me a normal in Raw Read Error Rate and Hardware ECC Recovered, a good in Seek Error Rate, and a very good in all other scores. Does this mean I should stop worrying about it?

My suggestion is back up your data to an external Storage drive, Reformat that HDD and reinstall the Operating System and all the drivers that came with your motherboard.

Thankfully the only data on the drive right now is a couple of papers I wrote as homework, I'll make sure to save all crucial files to the cloud. I'll try reformatting this summer/spring break, but on University throttled wireless the idea of reinstalling all my programs sounds like a frustrating task. Thanks everyone for your help, our computer center had me pretty scared when they said it had physical damage but it seems like it was just a bit of data corruption. I blame Riot for their terrible coding with League of Legends.

Best answer selected by renrut422.