Mine is randomly hanging up. It’s either bad memory sticks, hard drives failing (again). Or, it’s finally time to splurge on a new system and retire this one after 12 years of loyal service.
Thanks for the well intentions, but so far I know it’s not the disks, I changed them last year. I run Linux Mint, so I use other tools to monitor the disks and memory. I actually suspect it’s the graphics card getting funky because running things in software render mode solves the random hang ups.
Mine is randomly hanging up. It’s either bad memory sticks, hard drives failing (again). Or, it’s finally time to splurge on a new system and retire this one after 12 years of loyal service.
My I7-3770 died last week with “no memory installed” errors no matter which stick or slot. It was a trooper until the end.
I suspect it’s the graphics card. It’s been 6 years with me and it was refurbished when I got it.
At an admin command prompt, try:
chkdsk /r
or
chkdsk /x
how to use chkdsk
And also maybe check the SMART reports: Monitoring hard disk health with smartmontools
And then run the memory diagnostic: How to run Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool
Thanks for the well intentions, but so far I know it’s not the disks, I changed them last year. I run Linux Mint, so I use other tools to monitor the disks and memory. I actually suspect it’s the graphics card getting funky because running things in software render mode solves the random hang ups.
I’m there with you. I have no problems but I know I’m pushing my luck.