PC acting really strange and hoping someone can shed some light on it.
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My pc is being really stupid. Was trying to play some Warframe with some friends, so booted up skype, I Plug the mic in and it doesn't work, plug Webcam in, mic then works, but refuses to make a call.
Plug headphones in, it's 50/50 if sound keeps working at all and 50/50 if it keeps my mic working, unplug the headphones and it all works but still won't call. Unplug mic but not webcam and it decides it doesn't work at all. Plug mic back in, sound stops working but mic still works. Plug headphones in, and it then all stops working. Unplug mic and headphones sound works but the game loses ALL sound, and proceeds to stutter and lag and freeze every 5 seconds, with the freezing etc getting worse and more frequent until the ENTIRE pc just decides it wants to turn itself off, no restart, just plain and straight turn off.
I just now turned it back on. And seems to be running fine, but my PC decides it wants to do this kind of random stuff completely on it's own at absolutely random times. Sometimes I'll be mid call, and it'll decide it wants to not let my work or sound work anymore, or only one will just straight out die. Until I unplug headphones or similar and wait for about 2 mins for to all reboot.
Rebooting the game doesn't fix the stutter or freezing or game not outputting sound. Game decides to just straight up not work until I reboot the entire system, but if I close Warframe, launch a different game that works perfectly fine, close that and go back to Warframe still the same issue. It only ruins the game that is currently running, or the game that is run AFTER the entire system goes all strange but none others after that.
Does anyone have ANY idea what in the world is wrong with my Rig? Faulty hardware or something?
Broken drivers? Out of date? Crazy symptons because of overheating?
1: Update audio drivers.
2: Ditch Skype because it's being broken by Microsoft
3: Monitor temperatures using CPUID Hardware Monitor
4: Post temperatures on thread.
5: Clean out your computer
6: Check your hard drive for errors
7: Show specifications.
I tried updating drivers about a month ago, this is a persistent issue, even after reformatting it stays. It's a very random, my rig goes days/weeks/months without problem, and then does it out the blue.
Temps for CPU are idling at 9-10 C and maxing out around 15-20 under load.
HDD temp, is 35C and stays at around 37-38 under load.
my GPU idles at 45C and maxes out around 52C under load.
Which program is useful for HDD Errors? (I'm a bit of a tech newbie in all honesty)
As for my specs they are as follows:
Motherboard: ASUSTek M4A78LT-M
CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640 @ 3GHZ
HDD: Seagate 500GB @7600 RPM and a Seagate 250GB @7600 RPM]
Memory: 4GB (2x2GB sticks) Corsair DDR3
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
PSU: Corsair GS600 (600W from what I remember when I bought it.)
Check for disk error?
Start => Run
"chkdsk /r"
Gave me, cannot lock current drive. chkdsk cannot run because volume is currently in use by another process. Guess I just close ALL applications that are not essential to the operation system function and run this?
Restart.
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Usually I will have a 3rd party program to do these kind of stuff for me.
Typing via my phone now. Chkdsk is running. Does this output a log file afterwards?
IIRC, no.
Damn. Well so far no bad files. On stage 4 of 5 at 20000 of 748528 files. Gonna tale awhile.
Try HDtune, it will scan your hard drive for bad sectors
[url]http://www.hdtune.com/download.html[/url]
Just use the trial version.
Well I would but this chkdsk is gonna take an hour or two more. (warning it would take awhile would have been wonderful...) :suicide:
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OKAY so that finally finished. Said 0KB in bad sectors, and specific amounts of free and log etc, couldn't catch it all, and after that, said the drive was clean, so I'm assuming that means it is error free.
Even if chkdsk passes you will still want to look at the drives SMART data with HDtune.
Just my opinion, but it doesn't sound like it's a HDD issue to me. I think your sound card/integrated sound is going bad. It doesn't sound like you have a discrete sound card so, maybe if you can get your hands on one, try one instead of your integrated sound.
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