Lately, my computer has been freezing at some crucial times and it really caused me a lot of misery. This started happening when I first got this motherboard (had an nf7 before that FRIED) but I didn't pay much mind to it. I simply restarted or waited til it worked, then i updated bios and drivers and etc. But I was pretty pissed when I finished my first college paper until my computer decided to freeze an hour before class was going to start. So i decided to look into this and found that people with SATA have this sorta trouble too (although it's file corruption and whatnot). anyway, here's what happens
If i'm doing something... that is playing a game, watching a movie, surfing the web, or even just idling... the computer would lock up (mp3's first if i'm listening to it) then freeze. Afterwards, the whole computer would freeze with the HDD LED on. If i restart, sometimes, the drive isn't detected in the bios (though a cold boot fixes it). Once before, the hard drive wouldn't be read multiple times... and only when I flashed my bios did it start working again. This happens once a week or so.
So far from my research, only people with SATA have problems with their hard drives (some may have implied IDE problems for this motherboard but nobody really discussed anything about it). I have done varieties of tests to the hard drive and they all pass flawlessly.
The reason I posted this in the motherboard section was because right before i updated the bios (when the hard drive wouldn't show up in bios), I tried switching to another hard drive and but didn't help. I know this hard drive works because it was in another machine.
Anyway, any information would be greatly appreciated. Guess I gotta just wait for the RMA on my NF7 -_-. Gotta start writing my papers from the library or computer labs now... sigh
If i'm doing something... that is playing a game, watching a movie, surfing the web, or even just idling... the computer would lock up (mp3's first if i'm listening to it) then freeze. Afterwards, the whole computer would freeze with the HDD LED on. If i restart, sometimes, the drive isn't detected in the bios (though a cold boot fixes it). Once before, the hard drive wouldn't be read multiple times... and only when I flashed my bios did it start working again. This happens once a week or so.
So far from my research, only people with SATA have problems with their hard drives (some may have implied IDE problems for this motherboard but nobody really discussed anything about it). I have done varieties of tests to the hard drive and they all pass flawlessly.
The reason I posted this in the motherboard section was because right before i updated the bios (when the hard drive wouldn't show up in bios), I tried switching to another hard drive and but didn't help. I know this hard drive works because it was in another machine.
Anyway, any information would be greatly appreciated. Guess I gotta just wait for the RMA on my NF7 -_-. Gotta start writing my papers from the library or computer labs now... sigh
Facebook
Twitter