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| Thread ID: 122423 | 2011-12-20 07:59:00 | PC Freezing, Hard Drives Not Detected On Reboot | andrew_k (16411) | Press F1 |
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| 1249805 | 2011-12-20 07:59:00 | I've had a weird problem over the past week. Basically the onscreen display freezes, and there is nothing I can do to get things working again apart from hitting the reset button. However when I do the Bios doesn't detect either of my hard drives (I have 2 Western Digital WDC WD4000AAKS-00TMA0 400gb SATA drives installed). It does however detect the optical drive I have connected to another SATA port. If I switch off and then restart everything works fine. I initially thought this might have been something to do with overheating, as I noticed 2 of my case fans weren't working properly plus it only appears to happen after the machine has been on for a while. However I replaced all 3 fans today with Noctua NF-S12B FLX's. I thought this would fix this issue, however 10 minutes ago I came in to my office to discover the screen frozen and the task bar blacked out. I have a fanless ASUS EN8500GT video card (which uses the NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT chipset), and this routinely gets up to around 57 to 60 degrees celsius. Could it be related to this (though I would have thought these temps were fine for a graphics card)? I really have no idea what is happening. Any advice hugely appreciated. System: Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard with 6gb DDR3 RAM, Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 CPU, dual booting Windows XP Sp2 (32 bit) and Windows 7 64 bit. System is just over 3 years old. |
andrew_k (16411) | ||
| 1249806 | 2011-12-20 08:04:00 | Welcome to PF1 :) Have you tried starting the computer in safe mode and left it running, and if so does it still lock up ?? Edited: see you put in the system spec's now :D Does it lock up on both OS's ? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1249807 | 2011-12-20 08:12:00 | I haven't checked on the Windows 7 partition. I'll boot up into the Windows 7 partition and leave it overnight to see if anything happens. It's a weird one though, as the machine had been running fine from midday until around 5.30pm. I had to shoot out for a couple of hours and when I came back... | andrew_k (16411) | ||
| 1249808 | 2011-12-20 08:53:00 | I would update XP for starters. What BIOS is on it?? Since theres a few updates that fix a few things. Does this happen?? 0910. Fix the issue that the system can't boot after enabling SB RAID option ROM. Are you running these in RAID? 1014 Fix the system is unable to resume from S3 with certain CPU. 1203 the system may take about 30 seconds to boot into the OS when all USB ports are in use. Fix the Realtek LAN may stop functioning under Windows XP and Vista when AI-NET2 option is changed to Disabled. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1249809 | 2011-12-20 17:39:00 | Check event viewer, anything about drive errors? I had one once, would do something similar, the cable to the HDD wouldn't stay tight, it would move slightly sideways at one end. I | pctek (84) | ||
| 1249810 | 2011-12-20 19:26:00 | Thanks for the replies, much appreciated. I had the PC booted into Windows 7 overnight with no issues after about 9 hours. I'm actually running Windows XP Sp3, not Sp2 as I noted above. The drives aren't being run in any RAID configuration. The Windows 7 partition I use for recording music, with the second drive being used purely to record audio to. Current BIOS version is 0604. I'm a little wary of flashing the BIOS as I haven't done this before. There was nothing in Event viewer to indicate anything serious. | andrew_k (16411) | ||
| 1249811 | 2011-12-21 17:50:00 | I was suffering the same problem but the relevant BIOS version i have now resolve my problem and now i have re installed my Windows so it is going better. | Tyrone (16662) | ||
| 1249812 | 2011-12-21 20:45:00 | Just in case, are you using any sort of molex extension cable , 1 into 2 power splitter etc etc on the hard drives power cables ?? | 1101 (13337) | ||
| 1249813 | 2011-12-21 23:49:00 | Keep testing with 7 for a while, if it doesn't happen then it's probably a software problem with XP. If you don't want to flash the BIOS consider updating drivers from the manufacturers site for graphics and chipset, also wouldn't hurt to do a full virus scan and a malware scan with a couple of good scanners such as MBAM and spybot. Bear in mind sometimes drivers are written to work best with the latest BIOS version after a bug fix. Graphics temps in the 50s are pretty good, only when they go over 80 does it become a concern, and most modern cards can get to 100 without dying. Lockups are tricky, could be all kinds of things but a few common ones are: Dodgy software Outdated drivers Malware & Viruses Faulty RAM Faulty PSU Overheating components |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1249814 | 2011-12-23 14:30:00 | It appears to happen when I leave some application open for an extended period of time. MS Word, VLC Media Player and Google Chrome are all possible candidates. I'll boot into Windows 7 and try leaving a couple of apps open there and see what happens. | andrew_k (16411) | ||
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