raoul_1101
Member
Hello,
Its been a long time since I've been here, but alas, I'd love some troubleshooting help. I am running a new-sh computer and am experiencing a few different problems. I suspect they are hard drive related.
First, there are a lot of micro-freezes; the computer locks up for about half of a second up to 2 seconds, and returns. There are no errors or anything of that nature, nothing indicating anything is wrong. This is very apparent when browsing the web (nothing intensive running), where my mouse will stop moving for just a short moment. It happens a lot- 4-5 times a minute.
The more major issue is hard lock ups. For the most part, I've only seen this when accessing my 4TB HDD which I use for large files. I've been trying to use Ubuntu's torrent when I first noticed it. I've tried to torrent Ubuntu (mind you, this is perfectly legal before anyone gets up in arms) the past three nights in a row, and the machine has locked up every time, maybe an hour or so in. Suspecting it was the hard drive, I ran a Sea Tools diagnostic (long scan) over night. And that locked up too. I've since run a number of scans using sea tools and they've passed, the freezing seems to be very intermittent, and I've not really seen it lock up (to my knowledge) when I wasn't using my 4TB drive.
Attached are the specifications for the machine.
Note, the OS is installed on drive C, with most primary applications there, and other programs and User files are all on drive E. Drive F is the 4TB drive I use for large file storage, backups, misc, etc.
Thanks for any help!
Its been a long time since I've been here, but alas, I'd love some troubleshooting help. I am running a new-sh computer and am experiencing a few different problems. I suspect they are hard drive related.
First, there are a lot of micro-freezes; the computer locks up for about half of a second up to 2 seconds, and returns. There are no errors or anything of that nature, nothing indicating anything is wrong. This is very apparent when browsing the web (nothing intensive running), where my mouse will stop moving for just a short moment. It happens a lot- 4-5 times a minute.
The more major issue is hard lock ups. For the most part, I've only seen this when accessing my 4TB HDD which I use for large files. I've been trying to use Ubuntu's torrent when I first noticed it. I've tried to torrent Ubuntu (mind you, this is perfectly legal before anyone gets up in arms) the past three nights in a row, and the machine has locked up every time, maybe an hour or so in. Suspecting it was the hard drive, I ran a Sea Tools diagnostic (long scan) over night. And that locked up too. I've since run a number of scans using sea tools and they've passed, the freezing seems to be very intermittent, and I've not really seen it lock up (to my knowledge) when I wasn't using my 4TB drive.
Attached are the specifications for the machine.
Note, the OS is installed on drive C, with most primary applications there, and other programs and User files are all on drive E. Drive F is the 4TB drive I use for large file storage, backups, misc, etc.
Thanks for any help!