So, my PC is, seemingly randomly, freezing up. It will stop whatever it is doing, not react to any input anymore, loop the last nanosecond of sound over and over again, and all I can do is hard-restart it. It seems to only happen while the PC is somewhat busy, too. Once, I had a lot of stuff open, and a high memory usage and whatnot; the last time, I was watching a movie while downloading a really large file, so a memory problem does come to mind first.
This has been happening for a while, then one time, it completely crashed during such a freeze, and wouldn't turn on anymore. I sent it in, they replaced the mainboard, but now it starts happening again. I reformated the hard drive, reinstalled the OS, etc. after they repaired it, too.
I already tried testing the RAM with memtest86, no error reports there. I can hardly send it in again, since I don't even know what's wrong, and since they might not be able to reproduce the error.
Does anyone have any idea as to why that could be happening?
The PC is a nearly 2-year-old laptop, and, if you think that's required, I'll post more detailed specs, but I'm really just looking for an idea.
Thanks in advance.
Sounds like your harddrive is failing, do a chkdsk on all your drives.
[QUOTE=Naelstrom;31021715]Sounds like your harddrive is failing, do a chkdsk on all your drives.[/QUOTE]
This is exactly what's happening ot my laptop right now. CHKDSK is your best option.
Damn, really? I thought/hoped it was "only" the RAM, but thanks, I'll do that.
EDIT: CHKDSK didn't find anything, according to it, the hard drives are fine. I just deleted, re-partinioned and re-formated the first harddrive after they replaced the mainboard anyways, and the other one seems to be fine, too.
Clean it out. Just use a vacuum cleaner on the lowest power.
Helped my lock-up problems, and it's always good to do. If it doesn't work, post a Speccy.
Still in the warranty period, so if I could nail the problem down, I could send it in again and get it repaired for free - yet again. So, I'd rather not open it up.
As for specs, it's an un-modified Asus N70SV-TY043C - google for specs, when I do, I only get german pages you might not understand.
Download the trial version of HD Tune Pro. Do the extended harddrive test, aswell as the benchmark, and post the results here.
I'm running the "Error Scan" right now, can't find an "extended HD test". Also, should I run the file benchmark test, or the normal one? And Read, Write or both?
EDIT1: Result of the Error Scan on C:\, one more likely to be defective:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/CP15a.jpg[/img]
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