• HD stops working randomly
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So, I've bought an used computer yesterday for a good price, and as soon as I got home, I pryed it open with a crowbar and sticked my old HD in. It's working properly, it was probably not the best solution but this way I don't have to transfer everything and reinstall Windows. And I've also formatted the HD that came with it. So I left a game downloading on the other HD and went to university, and when I was back, 3 hours later, everything was still working, so I started installing the game on the HD, while leaving another downloading. After it was installed, I noticed that the HD just dissapeared and steam gave me "disk error". Then, I turned it off and switched SATA ports and when I booted again I installed the game again(the installation ended up corrupted) and went to play it, and after 2 minutes the game crashed and the HD was gone again. Now, I've left another game downloading on it for about and hour and it's gone again. after some frustration I've decided to post in here. Also, it comes back when I reboot.
Probably either a power issue or the HDD is shitting out. Run [url=http://crystalmark.info/redirect.php?product=CrystalDiskInfo]crystaldiskinfo[/url] to check disk health.
If the HDD was disconnecting then windows itself will just collapse and BSOD. Try re-install steam.
Wait a minute...you took a HD with Windows already installed from your old PC and put it into another PC just like that without reinstalling Windows ? Should this even supposed to work ?
Windows now a days tends to include drivers for such things even then it just connects and downloads what it needs. Otaviomad is having problems with the drive that was included with the computer. Yes run crystaldisk on it.
[QUOTE=AntonioR;49799305]Wait a minute...you took a HD with Windows already installed from your old PC and put it into another PC just like that without reinstalling Windows ? Should this even supposed to work ?[/QUOTE] It used to break older versions of Windows like XP. But modern Windows can automatically boot with fairly generic drivers. The only thing that breaks it is if you have the wrong drive controller type. If you install Windows with IDE mode enabled it will crash immediately on boot if you try to use SATA because it can't find the hard drive. :v: A registry edit will fix it though.
I ran crystaldisk and it says that the drive that disconnects is healthy in fact, it says alert on my old drive and I have no idea what that means [QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;49799215']If the HDD was disconnecting then windows itself will just collapse and BSOD. Try re-install steam.[/QUOTE] Gog games also cause this to happen. [editline]23rd February 2016[/editline] [QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;49799215']If the HDD was disconnecting then windows itself will just collapse and BSOD. Try re-install steam.[/QUOTE] actually, I've been sometimes getting bsods related to store exception and page fault this was probably a bad idea :v:
Check or change power connection Put them in the old computer and see if it does the same thing? Basically anything to isolate the issue more
[QUOTE=AntonioR;49799305]Wait a minute...you took a HD with Windows already installed from your old PC and put it into another PC just like that without reinstalling Windows ? Should this even supposed to work ?[/QUOTE] If you install the chipset drivers before moving the drive, you can usually get away with it (especially if both machines are intel). You may need to re-activate it though. The windows install i'm posting from has been through 3 laptops with no problem. [editline]23rd February 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=otaviomad;49800266]I ran crystaldisk and it says that the drive that disconnects is healthy in fact, it says alert on my old drive and I have no idea what that means Gog games also cause this to happen. [editline]23rd February 2016[/editline] actually, I've been sometimes getting bsods related to store exception and page fault this was probably a bad idea :v:[/QUOTE] Try re-installing your chipset drivers and see if that does anything.
Yea I was on intel and then went to an AMD processor. [editline]23rd February 2016[/editline] Gonna try installing that now. [editline]23rd February 2016[/editline] actually, how do I do that? :v:
[QUOTE=otaviomad;49801946]Yea I was on intel and then went to an AMD processor. [editline]23rd February 2016[/editline] Gonna try installing that now. [editline]23rd February 2016[/editline] actually, how do I do that? :v:[/QUOTE] You shoyld find them on the motherboard drivers disc, or their website.
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;49801970']You shoyld find them on the motherboard drivers disc, or their website.[/QUOTE] is there any way to know the motherboard model without rebooting? I kinda can't turn off my computer atm but I could leave it downloading
[QUOTE=otaviomad;49801985]is there any way to know the motherboard model without rebooting? I kinda can't turn off my computer atm but I could leave it downloading[/QUOTE] Speccy is pretty good with this. From there you can go on AMD's website and extract the correct chipset drivers.
[QUOTE=otaviomad;49801985]is there any way to know the motherboard model without rebooting? I kinda can't turn off my computer atm but I could leave it downloading[/QUOTE] CPU-Z can tell you, Speccy should be able to as well.
ok I know the model but I can't find the chipset driver anywhere :^( its an m5a78l-m lx br apparently
also speccy shows that my mobo is at a whopping 84 C(183 F) and my cpu is 81 C(178 F) should I be alarmed?
yes
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