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Freezes, games and HD access
Is Windows 7 . . . - x86 (32-bit) or x64 ? 64 - the original installed OS on the system? user built, yes - an OEM or full retail version? full retail - What is the age of system (hardware)? New system build Oct 2011. New mobo/cpu/ram/SSD. 2 older 2tb internal drives (less than 2yrs old). 2 new 3tb drives (1 of those is the one not recognizing intermittently) - What is the age of OS installation (have you re-installed the OS?) Installed in Oct 2011.
System recently started hanging/freezing. Would most often do it when I came back to it after monitor/hard drives turned off. No sleep or hibernate. It would often not respond at all. Monitor light would come on, but screen would never show. Would have to hit power.
Within a week, it will freeze in use. Sometimes when playing a game (LFD2) or when just navigating around in web browers or file explorer.
I did notice a few weeks back my main hard drive for new torrents would just drop off and I would have to reboot and it would show up again. It is not doing that now. However I did check disks on all my drives and they were ok, but THIS drive will not even show me the properties dialog box to check disk.
Now it will randomly freeze in use, no guaranteed action to make it fail. Will play LFD2 for 20-30 mins and usually freeze now at some point requiring hard reboot.
Sometimes just navigating in file explorer will do it, but not necessarily any particular drive (i.e. it doesn't do it everytime I try to access I certain drive).
The only older part of the system is a 260 GTX video card. But that is still only a few years old.
Any ideas?