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Question

Hard Drive light turns off then PC freezes.

Aug 24, 2018 7:37PM PDT

hey, guys, what's up? here's the thing, i've been having this problem for a really long time, i'm using my pc and all of the sudden everything sofwere stops responding and the hard drive light turns off, then after 30 seconds or so it starts blinking again and everything starts working again, i am also getting a lot of bluescreens, probly because my hard drive stops responding and it messes up my windows, a while back i couldn't even install the windows because the problem happened during the installation of the windows, then i found out that if i swap the power sata cable of the hard drive the problem goes away for a little while, a week sometimes, then it starts all over again.

my hard drive's new, i've changed it twice thinking it was the root of the problem, and my motherboard's also new, but the warranty expires in 5 days, so i really need to know if the motherboard is the problem, my power supply is 600W, it's 2 years old or so.

i've also changed my Ram and checked my hard drive for errors, they're not the problem apparently.

Post was last edited on August 24, 2018 7:47 PM PDT

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Have you checked...
Aug 24, 2018 10:25PM PDT

...your CPU temps?

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yes
Aug 25, 2018 5:56AM PDT

my CPU temps are all normal, i've also changed the CPU to see if that was the problem, it didn't work.

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Since you suspect the HDD
Aug 26, 2018 10:51AM PDT
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Desktop?
Aug 25, 2018 12:21AM PDT
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Done it
Aug 25, 2018 5:58AM PDT

i've done that too, no change.

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Try running a system from DVD or USB flashdrive
Aug 26, 2018 1:36PM PDT