When you try it. What do you mean by "it"? The velocity raptor is the C drive. Has the OS on it. Are you saying unplug the raptor and then turn on the computer?
Welp.....I just swapped out the cables. Computer froze about 10 minutes into after I powered it up.
Ya know whats weird. Lets say the computer just became frozen. With Windows 7 you get that spinning wheel meaning I have to wait a few minutes until things unfreeze. Well....my cursor still works and if I click on a program...for example a browser....and of course nothing happens.....but I click on another program....and then another.....but nothing happens cause the computer is froze. Well......once the computer unfreezes.......all the programs I clicked on start up. All of them. If I clicked three browsers...they all come on.....whatever I clicked on 4 minutes ago now comes on. It's like my clicks are all executed.....but not until the PC unfreezes. What the heck????
crashtech
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Problems like this can be maddening to trace. I might boot to a live CD like Parted Magic and noodle around in it for a while. I bet it doesn't freeze in an alternate OS. If this is the case, as an experiment you could toss a blank hard drive in and load up a fresh version of Windows, documenting all changes as you go. If you hit the freeze problem, you have a chance of identifying the errant software. If it never freezes, you may have experienced silent corruption in a critical application file that would not be repaired by sfc /scannow.
Just a shot in the dark since I didn't see it mentioned...
Is this PC part of a domain or on a home network of some sort? I've seen PC's freeze when it loses connection and is attempting to acquire an ip address from DHCP server. Thought I would ask...
Is this PC part of a domain or on a home network of some sort? I've seen PC's freeze when it loses connection and is attempting to acquire an ip address from DHCP server. Thought I would ask...
What does it mean "the system waiting on something". What could that something be? I see nothing unusual in the event viewer.
MagnusTheBrewer
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I run Photoshop CC. It can't be that can it? Exactly how do I determine what program is doing this?
Ketchup
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A resource. You see things like this on a web browser every once in a while. Like I said, can be hard to track down. what types of devices are attached to your computer?
MagnusTheBrewer
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Devises attached to computer are....printer (rarely turned on BTW)....mouse, keyboard (both of which I swapped out to see if that was causing the problem), 1 external hard drive, a usb3 card reader, speakers.....that's it.
disconnect the PC from the interwebs and see if the problem persists. If there's no freezes while disconnected from the web that will give you a clue to look for an application that is accessing the internet.
Is this your motherboard? http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzUwWDEwMDA=/z/mxcAAMXQC-tTDANN/$_57.JPG
If so, look at the lower left in the picture and you will see a battery.
If so, look at the lower left in the picture and you will see a battery.
VirtualLarry
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To test potential driver issues, I would go into Device Manager, and start disabling non-essential device drivers / hardware.
Also consider un-installing Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware software. (Run a full scan before un-installing them though.)
Also consider un-installing Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware software. (Run a full scan before un-installing them though.)
Ketchup
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When I first read that, the card reader jumped out at me as something to disconnect. I know others have given you things to try as well.
VirtualLarry
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I missed that. I had similar problems one time with a rig that I built, using a USB2.0 multi-card 3.5" bay reader. Would get "not responding" error, if I remember correctly. Also had issues booting properly. Turned out, I was using a cheap case-included PSU, and it had damaged the mobo's USB ports, causing issues with the card reader. Or perhaps the card reader was just bad to start with, but I eventually couldn't even boot the system until I replaced the PSU, but after I did that, I still had issues with USB devices on that rig.
Nope. Care reader is relitivly new. Computer froze before the thing was ever installed too.
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