Ive had a Seagate Barracuda for 9 months now and it seems that its failing. Ive had weird graphical errors, general crashes, the works.
Hell, I even have a 57% raw error read rate! Thats a fucking lot!
When I defrag it goes away for a day but I crash sooner or later.
So, T&S, is my hard drive failing?
No. Because if your artifacting, its something else. Post specs
Please also post temps ( HDD, GPU, etc )
SPECS:
E8500 Wolfdale @3.1Ghz
1Gb x4 DDR2 @800Mhz
2x Geforce 9800Gt in SLi
750W PSU
Barracuda 750GB 7200
TEMPS:
idle;
HDD: 79F
GPU1: 127F
GPU2: 129F
CPU: 97F
TeamFortress2@1400x900 4x Antialias 2xlinear-filter highest texture model detail etc, FULL GAME 2FORT
HDD: 81F
GPU1: 136F
GPU2: 136F
CPU: 118F
I never have the crashes on desktop, its always ingame.
sometimes it will just blantly crash, others it will stall for about 10 seconds then resume with all the textures scrambled!
for an example of the latter,
[url]http://filesmelt.com/dl/goddamnit1.png[/url]
This caused me to think it was the graphics drivers, and I have good reason.Whenever I can update them, these crashes go away untill something else self updates aka flash adobe etc. Then Im stuck like this untill next update. Usually I was fine with this because as soon as I started crashing an update would come out!
Well, its been a month since they last updated me, and I really cant go on like this.
I appreciate any help as this has been going on since september!
Listen. I simply cannot stay like this. if you have ANY INPUT THAT MIGHT HELP PLEASE GOD POST IT
Post your SMART results on your HDD. If SMART posts a good health/fitness, it isn't your HDD. I suggest doing a memtest too.
If in doubt, backup your data and RMA the drive.
Check your SMART settings as richard said, also download and run Hard Drive Sentinel. It will give you a real answer as to how bad/good your HDD is doing.
Health is 91%, but
Raw Error Read rate 58%, with a value of 119 and worst being 99
Seek Error rate is 67%, 77 and worst being 60
those are the only values that arent 100% healthy
HDDLIFE:
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/hddlife.PNG[/img]
Sentinel
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/sentenial.PNG[/img]
your HDD should be fine for the most part. its not too critical at the moment, but i suggest looking into getting a new HDD and backing it up within the next month here.
for the rest, try doing a memtest.
Alright, Ill do one for about 30 min in garrysmod, where the crashes happen.
[editline]10:58PM[/editline]
Ive put in an hour of tf2, gmod, and insurgency. Its gone to 327% on 1Gb and no errors
ATTENTION:
I have fixed this problem! I thought your "drivers" did all that they were meant to,
I was browsing newegg mobo's for fun,
When I saw that some boards can and some cannot run Sli,
so I thought, "there must be drivers for the SLi too then!"
sure enough, they are called Nforce drivers, they conduct the Sli.
so I updated them, played around on tf2 for a length of time that I would normally have crashed,
and didn't.
So remember kids,
If you run an SLi setup, You have TWO sets of drivers. One for the cards, and one for the motherboard. Hope this is helpfull to anyone who needs it, and so its easier to find via search;
sli crash nvidia nforce drivers failure artifacts
[QUOTE=PyromanDan;20446323]ATTENTION:
I have fixed this problem! I thought your "drivers" did all that they were meant to,
I was browsing newegg mobo's for fun,
When I saw that some boards can and some cannot run Sli,
so I thought, "there must be drivers for the SLi too then!"
sure enough, they are called Nforce drivers, they conduct the Sli.
so I updated them, played around on tf2 for a length of time that I would normally have crashed,
and didn't.
So remember kids,
If you run an SLi setup, You have TWO sets of drivers. One for the cards, and one for the motherboard. Hope this is helpfull to anyone who needs it, and so its easier to find via search;
sli crash nvidia nforce drivers failure artifacts[/QUOTE]
Did you by any chance format and forget to install motherboard drivers?
[QUOTE=Legend286;20446877]Did you by any chance format and forget to install motherboard drivers?[/QUOTE]
No I did not, this disk hasn't been partioned, formated, or wiped in any way.
Why do you ask?
Also, about the motherboard drivers, it had been around 7 months since they were last updated, which is when I got the board :B
Ah, because your motherboard drivers would've been deleted, and some people forget to reinstall them / throw them away.
That would make sense if someone did that, however that was not the case here.
Makes sense though if you think about it really :p
I think I'm gonna have to buy myself a 3rd internal, I'm running out of space here D:.
-Sniptity Snip-
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