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okay, I built a new Pc thanks to the help from the people on this website, i built it only 3 or so month ago, its been running better than what I expected. but now im running into a constant freezing problem where the Pc will randomly freeze for no real reason, I also was receiving a "error reading operating system" or something like that, that error randomly went away when I switched the boot priority to load from a disk first, i've changed it back since and that problem I still haven't gotten again.
but this constant freezing is really frustrating, and nobody is able to tell me what the problem is yet. ive ran plenty of disk defrags, disk checks (which seems to of caused this problem again) virus scans, memtests, everything comes back fine. i consider myself to be pretty good with computers as I spend a lot of time on them, I can pretty much never catch a virus, or any of that, as I only game, check emails and go on Youtube anyways.
there is one thing that has been happening with my pc since the beginning, and thats a hard to explain like booting noise, you can hear the fan speed up or something. and it sounds like its looping itself, and that will happen randomly when I right click on something.
I hope ive given you guys enough detail, please help me out once again!
but this constant freezing is really frustrating, and nobody is able to tell me what the problem is yet. ive ran plenty of disk defrags, disk checks (which seems to of caused this problem again) virus scans, memtests, everything comes back fine. i consider myself to be pretty good with computers as I spend a lot of time on them, I can pretty much never catch a virus, or any of that, as I only game, check emails and go on Youtube anyways.
there is one thing that has been happening with my pc since the beginning, and thats a hard to explain like booting noise, you can hear the fan speed up or something. and it sounds like its looping itself, and that will happen randomly when I right click on something.
I hope ive given you guys enough detail, please help me out once again!
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the last freeze it did was when I tried opening steam, but it happens randomly even when Im just playing a game or on youtube. everything freezes and im unable to move anything, close, and Im just left to restart the PC and hope nothing else messes up again, like im doing now.
thanks for the suggestion buddy, im holding off on the full wipe of windows because id rather not lose everything unless i know thats what i need to do. I only have 1 graphics card, and the noise is different from a optical drive, it sounds like something trying to run but just hooking and repeating itself like 3-4 times, and its high pitched compared to just a regular fan running.
the 2 temperatures i see in the boot menu are anywhere between 31-38, I even got an extra fan on the processor when I built the PC
You built this yourself? Could the something have gotten bent when installing the cpu?
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When you say the Windows 7 Key was on the side of an old computer I'll assume that computer had a version of Windows 7 installed on it? If that is the case and it was a prebuilt system that key was in fact used on that old system. Prebuilt systems rarely come with an install disk because they are OEM copies which are not meant to be used in a new build, that is why they stick the keys onto the side of case, for reference if you need to do a fresh install on that same system. If any of the aforementioned is true you are most likely using a version fo Windows 7 which you are not suppose to be using in a new system. I'm not saying that would cause your issues at hand but is worth taking note of if you weren't aware.
The noise you describe could easily be your PSU. Many PSU's suffer from what is known as coil whine that for many isn't audible until the PSU is pushed a bit. Coil whine can also just as easily effect GPU's and other parts of your system but the PSU/GPU are the most common. System freezes can also be equated to the PSU as I've had that issue in that past and a new PSU did the trick, though there is no guarantee that is the problem in your case. Could you do us a favor and list all the parts in your PC, perhaps we can try and trouble shoot from there. Oh and I hope you didn't run defrag on a SSD, not only is it unnecessary it's could potentially harm the SSD.
An example of coil whine:
Do you have a regular Hard Drive or an SSD?
That noise could be the Dying Hard Drive Sound of Doom(tm).
Disk checks rarely can catch a mechanical hard drive failure, such as bearing or motor failure which just cause the drive to sputter and stop and make weird noises. They can usually only detect something like flaking or platter collision, something that would cause a lot of data corruption.
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Thats what I was thinking as well.
Sounds like your HDD failing. Could also be a whine from your PSU.
Also do you have anything overclocked? If so the 1st thing I would do is put everything at default. If no OC then I would take a hard look at the HDD. Maybe open the side of the case and actually listen to try and pinpoint where its coming from.
Did you reuse any old parts in the build? Like reuse an old HDD or PSU?
A list of your pc components would help, as well as if you bought them all new or reused old components.
Okay so I'll give you guys all my PC specs that I can remember.
I have a GTX 560 graphics card, 16 gb of ram, i5 3770k 3.4ghz processor, I currently have a refurbished SSD that has Windows and my main games on it, and then I have a 1 TB HDD I put files I don't really use often on.
oh, and when the PC was first built I was having problems with the 1tb HDD, that was my main one and it had windows and stuff on it, but it would randomly freeze and run REALLY slow as well. Maybe it's the HDD that's causing the freezing? I really hope it's not my SSD or processor, because that's alot of $$ I won't have until next Christmas.
edit: and now that I'm looking at it, the HDD has Steam on it, the program that's making my PC crash as of late.
edit#2: going to try running steam one last time, if that crashes my PC im going to erase steam off of the HDD and put it on my SSD and see if that works.
If you suspect the hard drive, then you could try physically unplugging it and seeing if you can still make the computer crash without the hard drive being plugged in.
How old is the hard drive?
Well then, when did you get the hard drive? If you just got it a few months ago, it should still be under warranty. If you got it several years ago, then hard drives are likely to fail after a while.
I would definatly contact them about a replacement if its 3-4 months old.
As for steam I would make sure any and all steam related files are removed. I know steam allows game installs to seperate drives. Sounds like you may have some steam files installed somewhere they shouldnt be.