Those were good recommendations from Joshua, never seen that info before.
The drive I pulled passed every test, but had long pauses during some of
them. I basically swapped everything that could be swapped during testing
except my m2 SSD's, and when I swapped the 4TB seagate drive all the
problems went away. Hopefully you luck out and find the culprit too.
lopaka
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 1:39 PM Bobby Heid wrote:
> Thanks Joshua.
>
> I ran all of those except for the performance monitoring one and all said
> OK. An interesting note - some of those tests do not show the NVME SSD
> (Samsung 960 Pro SSD).
>
> I did buy a new 6TB HD to swap out for the 5TB one to see if that may help.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Hardware On Behalf Of
> Joshua MacCraw
> Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2020 12:27 PM
> To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
> Subject: Re: [H] Weird PC issue
>
> SMART testing comes to mind as well as checking the log for disk related
> events. Found this tip, didn't know win10 did this directly -
>
> https://www.windowscentral.com/how-check-if-hard-drive-failing-smart-windows-10
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 2:24 PM Bobby Heid wrote:
>
> > Thanks. Could be on to something there. I will pursue looking at
> > testing the drive.
> >
> > The locking up can happen whether it is recording or not. I was
> > trying to demonstrate that I did not think processes were executing
> > while it appeared locked up.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bobby
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Hardware On Behalf Of
> > lopaka polena
> > Sent: Friday, October 9, 2020 4:53 PM
> > To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
> > Subject: Re: [H] Weird PC issue
> >
> > Strangely enough my bad drive passed chkdsk multiple times without one
> > fail, so pulling it was a last ditch effect since I'd already swapped
> > video card, RAM and power supply.
> >
> > lopaka
> >
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> > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 1:45 PM Beave <619be...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Try chkdsk on the drive the recording is going to. Could be an issue
> > there.
> > >
> > > Good luck,
> > >
> > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020, 1:12 PM Bobby Heid wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have had some issues going on with my pc for several months now.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > There are two issues.
> > > >
> > > > 1. Once every several weeks or so, I get a bluescreen -
> > > > IPI_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT. I can live with this one. Things that I
> > > > have
> > > tried
> > > > to fix this do not seem to have helped.
> > > > 2. The big issue is that my PC keeps locking up. This happens
> > from
> > > > 0-5
> > > > times per day. I may go 3 days without it happening and then have
> > > > it happen
> > > > 3 times in one day. Here are some details:
> > > >
> > > > a. When it locks up, the HD activity light is doing a very fast,
> > > > steady
> > > > flash.
> > > > b. There is no warning when it will happen.
> > > > c. It happens whether I am using the PC or not.
> > > > d. Seems to happen more often overnight than during the day. But
> > not
> > > > always.
> > > > e. When it locks up, I can still move the mouse cursor and move
> > > > windows. I cannot close a window or start another program.
> > > > f. When it locks up when not using PC, sometimes the login
> screen
> > > > image
> > > > will show, sometimes not.
> > > > g. CTL-Alt-Delete does nothing when locked.
> > > > h. PC stays up 24/7. No sleep or hibernation.
> > > > i. When it locks up, if the system is recording a show (from a
> > > > networked TV Tuner), the recording stops, so I assume that most
> > > > apps are not still running when it locks up.
> > > > j. If a recording was scheduled while it is locked up, nothing
> is
> > > > created.
> > > > k. To reset, I have to press and hold the power button until the
> > > > system
> > > > turns off.
> > > > l. Through trial and error, it seems that turning off letting
> the
> > > > monitors going to sleep seems to have lessened the frequency of
> > > > the lock ups. I am not sure if this was not just a coincidence.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Here are my system specs:
> > > >
> > > > * Asus X99 Deluxe-II MB
> > > > * Intel i7-6850k CPU (not overclocked)
> > > > * Asus GeForce GTX 1070
> > > > * Corsair water cooler
> > > > * Corsair 32GB RAM
> > > > * Samsung 960 Pro SSD (512GB) - OS
> > > > * Samsung 860 EVO SSD 1TB
> > > > * WD 5TB Black
> > > > * Pioneer Blu Ray drive
> > > > * Dual monitors
> > > > * Corsair HX-850 PSU
> > > > * Corsai
