Hello, I am new here and I was hoping someone would be able to help me with this issue I have been having with a computer I built.
About 5 or 6 years ago, one of my good friends helped me build a custom computer when I was not very familiar with hardware. Everything was fine and worked great for about the duration of that time (5 or 6 years). Out of the blue, my hard drive burned up and stopped working. I figured, what the hell, it's been 5 or 6 years why not upgrade a few other things. (I didn't care much that I lost stuff on my hard drive because I deleted my partitions and re-installed windows every once in a while anyways. I don't keep stuff on there so I won't lose anything important.) I bought a new motherboard, CPU, hard drive (obviously), as well as a new case since my old one was beat to hell.
Everything was fine, until about 2 months after I revamped the computer. All of a sudden Windows Explorer started crashing out of no where and when I'd reset the computer, it'd run a hard drive test to address and repair the issues. It deleted a bunch of corrupt files and everything was running smooth for about another week. Same thing started happening, except this time it wouldn't get past "Windows is starting...". I figured it was a virus and deleted my partition, then tried to re-install windows again but had no luck. In the end, I took a shot in the dark and guessed it was just a faulty hard drive.
Today, (a month or so after replacing the previous hard drive which I had for a total of 2-3 months) it started doing it again on a brand new hard drive on a legit, store bought version of Windows Ultimate 64-bit. Windows Explorer kept crashing and eventually I just reset the computer and went through the hard drive repair again. I don't understand what is going on. Anyone ever address an issue like this?
Here are my specs:
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z68-V Gen3
Gfx Card: nVidia Geforce GTX 570
CPU: Intel Core i3-2120 @ 3.30ghz
RAM: (Forgot the specific name of it. However, if you need this I will look inside, but I am too lazy right now.) 16gigs
Hard Drive: WD (model#: WDBAAZ0010HNC-NRSN)
PSU: (Forgot the name of this too, same goes for this if you need the name.) Either a 750 or 850, can't remember right now.
I also do have a cooling system for the CPU and a CD/DVDRW drive installed if you need either of those.
Anything else, let me know. Thank you for reading this, and I hope you can help!
About 5 or 6 years ago, one of my good friends helped me build a custom computer when I was not very familiar with hardware. Everything was fine and worked great for about the duration of that time (5 or 6 years). Out of the blue, my hard drive burned up and stopped working. I figured, what the hell, it's been 5 or 6 years why not upgrade a few other things. (I didn't care much that I lost stuff on my hard drive because I deleted my partitions and re-installed windows every once in a while anyways. I don't keep stuff on there so I won't lose anything important.) I bought a new motherboard, CPU, hard drive (obviously), as well as a new case since my old one was beat to hell.
Everything was fine, until about 2 months after I revamped the computer. All of a sudden Windows Explorer started crashing out of no where and when I'd reset the computer, it'd run a hard drive test to address and repair the issues. It deleted a bunch of corrupt files and everything was running smooth for about another week. Same thing started happening, except this time it wouldn't get past "Windows is starting...". I figured it was a virus and deleted my partition, then tried to re-install windows again but had no luck. In the end, I took a shot in the dark and guessed it was just a faulty hard drive.
Today, (a month or so after replacing the previous hard drive which I had for a total of 2-3 months) it started doing it again on a brand new hard drive on a legit, store bought version of Windows Ultimate 64-bit. Windows Explorer kept crashing and eventually I just reset the computer and went through the hard drive repair again. I don't understand what is going on. Anyone ever address an issue like this?
Here are my specs:
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z68-V Gen3
Gfx Card: nVidia Geforce GTX 570
CPU: Intel Core i3-2120 @ 3.30ghz
RAM: (Forgot the specific name of it. However, if you need this I will look inside, but I am too lazy right now.) 16gigs
Hard Drive: WD (model#: WDBAAZ0010HNC-NRSN)
PSU: (Forgot the name of this too, same goes for this if you need the name.) Either a 750 or 850, can't remember right now.
I also do have a cooling system for the CPU and a CD/DVDRW drive installed if you need either of those.
Anything else, let me know. Thank you for reading this, and I hope you can help!
