Okay so i bought a 1200 dollar hp computer 9 months ago.Since then i put a radeon hd 3870 gpu inside. It plays well with no problems for a whole year then BAM here recently ive installed the windows 7 beta and things were okay with you know direct x 11 and all that major performance in games like crysis.But last week my computer freezes in starcraft...No not starcraft 2 the original star craft.That shouldnt happen......so i turn the thing off and i sat in a 15 minute boot up....i was pissed and it happened right after i turned it on 15 minutes into gameplay.. So after all that i start to wonder what the hells overheating i mean i already forgot to mention the power supply fan died 4 months into owning this and i replaced the fan and things were great again but for 1200$ a **** fan dying 4 months after i bought the thing opened it and voided the warrenty???bull crap lol! So i checked all temperatures and well my gpu is running at 40 celcuis pretty cool for that gpu since half my time it hitting 60 celcius and still in the green zone under CCC. So i checked everything alls cool and still its **** up on me.i tried to go back from windows 7 to vista home premium and it ignored my attempt at fress f11 to restore from partition under boot up.5 TIMES! Well i tried to use a windows xp cd boot and all was ok til it says "your computer has been shut down for your safety"in the **** windows install. WHAT?!ok....Thats bull crap!Since when was xp a lethal threat to me?! Well i tried to do i check disk on my hard drive 2 days passed and it was done.Bad sectors.......Ok ok now im almost sure thats a bad thing...ok now i knew why my hdd was making a funny noise. It goes *click click* *vroooooom* *repeat* but not like the hdd crashes ive ever seen online i mean its so quiet when its clicking n spazzing its **** out you gotta be in the case with it to know and thats how i found out my listening closely. my specs are: Intel core 2 quad 2.40ghz radeon hd 3870 512mbgddr4 sata 500gb hdd windows 7 ultimate beta dx11 somehow it reads i have 1786 video memory under a single 512 card in dxdiag Now device manager says my hdd is 100% healthy even though chdisk says bad sectors. What the hells wrong with it?
the hard drives bad, i had simular thing with my previous seagate HDD where my system would just completly freeze and sometimes would randomly run check disk. Also it would sometimes not boot up and in the space of about 6 months, i had to reformat and reinstall OS 5 times. I now have a new hard drive and everythings running nicely.
Your hard drive is crapping out. Get it replaced...seeing as you bought the PC 9 months ago, you should have some sort of warranty on it for parts and/or labor...?
Not all hard drives crash in the same manner. I had one that would *click* at me at a constant rate of about every second when it was running....it then had troubles booting and random freezes and finally it just wouldn't work anymore.
I've had another HDD that would click a few times during starting up and the computer wouldn't boot. I would then turn the PC off and wait about 5 seconds and restart the computer and things would work just fine. After a month or so (this was a computer at work...no one believed me when I told them the HDD was failing and needed replacing. They all looked stupidly surprised when it did crash) of this, the computer wouldn't turn on anymore and the HDD would just click and then give out a low humming noise.
thanks for the help but are you sure its not a heating issue?since i installed a fan things have been okjeremy78940
But if you're HDD is over heating and causing things to freeze/crash, then you obviously have a problem with your HDD. It's not working right and that should be a sign that things are going to go downhill from here with it.
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