• Random "sticking" of programs.
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Lately I've been experiencing a problem when, seemingly at random, my programs will "stick" one after the other for about a minute. What'll happen is this: - I'm going about my business and one program freezes up - I switch to another program, that freezes up after a few seconds - No new programs can be opened - Explorer sticks - About a minute later everything comes back to life and all commands that I gave while things were stuck are registered. Anyone know what is going on here and what I can do to fix it? I'm running Windows 7 Retail x64. Technical specs: GPU: nVidia GeForce GTX 285 1gb video RAM Display: One 1920 x 1080 and one 1280 x 1024 CPU: Intel Q6600 @ 2.6ghz RAM: 6gb, can't remember the brand
What do you mean by stick? Where it goes "Not Responding" (aka the infamous "whiteness increase")?
Yup, that's the one.
*Cough*
Do you have an ASUS motherboard?
I do.
Check task manager when stuff freezes to see if there is a spike in a program.
I think I've pinned this down to some sort of hard drive failure, a few days ago my computer wouldn't boot (it got stuck at detecting drives) so I unplugged/replugged my two HDDs and I haven't had a blue screen or lock up since :raise: [editline]11:02AM[/editline] Wow, I guess I really spoke too soon. Not 30 seconds after I made this post my computer locked up and blue screened again. I've disabled automatic restarting on a system failure now, I'll be sure to get down details from the blue screen this time. [editline]11:51AM[/editline] Just had another stall (no bluescreen) and I heard one of my HDDs start up just as the stall began. Could it be that one of my HDDs is stopping whenever these stalls happen?
Okay, I just had another blue screen and my computer started failing to boot again so I went inside and puggled around, turns out my second hard drive was preventing it from booting properly and I assume my second hard drive was causing the lock ups and such. When I was listening to the HDDs try to start I heard one start up just fine (primary, much newer has always had a more healthy sound to it) and the other one was making a repetitive clicking sound every 3 seconds or so, I checked all power and SATA connections and everything was in fine so I have now unplugged my secondary HDD and everything booted up okay. My question now is, what can I do about this? Is the HDD gone? I don't mind replacing it really, it had my music and videos on it as well as a few bits of program data and the old Windows 7 Beta (I didn't want to format when I got my new HDD, there was too much data on the old HDD to lose or back up) but it would be nice if I could salvage it. Here is the data from the blue screen if it still matters KERNAL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR ***sTOP: 0X0000007AC0XFFFFF6FC4005FBA8, 0X0000000152304BE0, 0XFFFFF8800BF75
Try this [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293857[/url]
Well I haven't had a stick yet since I disabled my secondary hard drive (normally one happens just as I reach the desktop) and I cannot boot up with the secondary enabled so I don't think I can really try that.
[QUOTE=Caps lock;20535169]Well I haven't had a stick yet since I disabled my secondary hard drive (normally one happens just as I reach the desktop) and I cannot boot up with the secondary enabled so I don't think I can really try that.[/QUOTE] Considering one of your drives is clicking, it's probably about to fail (and it's probably that secondary). Get all the shit you can off of it ASAP (use an external drive and something like ubuntu to copy it over) and get a new drive before you wave bye-bye to all that data. If it isn't even being picked up by Ubuntu, you could try CloneZilla (google), or as a last-ditch, if you think it's worth it, pay normally around $100 to have the data recovered from the drive.
Well I can't boot up with that drive now so I'm guessing it's gone to a better place. When I say it can't boot up I don't mean booting into windows with it, I mean the computer literally will not get past the first screen (in which it checks the computer's hardware) not it just won't boot into Windows. No big deal, there was about 250gb of videos and music on there but it's nothing I can't get back. I'd rather have lost that HDD than my primary which has essentially all my important programs/data on it.
Yeah, you've got yourself a paperweight. I suggest doing the most sensible thing and taking the magnets out of it
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