Random freezes, and Program Crashes. No BSOD. Over 18 errors eventview

[polorsport]

This is my annual my pc is breaking down and i don't know why post. (Figures I have only had this build for a year)

It started about 2-3 weeks ago and is getting worse. I can no longer leave my pc on overnight or it freezes. If I run more than 2-3 programs it freezes. I was watching a video once with headphones on and heard a loud noise then freeze.

I at first thought it was just one of my hard drives dying because I had similar symptoms before I removed it. But, the fact that the crashes are happening more frequently without accessing the questionable e: has me stumped.

Then I figured maybe it was the overclock I did in my bios. But, restoring it to normal has had little effect on the performance of my machine.

I have run and run on an almost daily basis the following: All updated daily or when available.

Microsoft security essentials
Superantispyware
Malwarebytes
CCleaner
JV16 power tools 2011
Tuneup utilities 2012
Diskeeper 2012 (Just started using 2-3 days ago)

Comodo firewall

I also use driver genius pro and patch my pc to make sure all my drivers are up to date.

MY Event Log has had the following consistent errors in just the past 7 days

Critical:

41 Kernal Power

Error:

3 Kernel-Event Tracking
7 Disk
11 Atapi
15 Disk
72 Side by Side
1000 Application error
1002 Application hang
3002 Microsoft Antimalware
6008 Eventlog
7001 Service Control Manager
7023 Service Control Manager
7030 Service Control Manager
7031 Service Control Manager
7034 Service Control Manager
8032 Browser
10005 DistributedCom


My PC:

OS

windows 7 Pro x64 SP 1

CPU

I5 2500K stock

Motherboard

ASRock Z68 PROFESSIONAL GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Memory

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DD, G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL. 16 gb total

Graphics Card(s)

Evga 580 gtx Superclocked sli reference Evga 580 gtx

Sound Card
N/A

Monitor(s) Displays
Acer HN274H 3D Vision-ready LCD Monitor

Screen Resolution
1920x1080p

Hard Drives

Crucial M4 CT256M4SSD2CCA 2.5" 256GB SATA III SSD
Western Digital Caviar Black WD2001FASS 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB
Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARS 2TB 64MB

PSU

Antec High Current Pro HCP-1200 1200W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Case

COOLER MASTER HAF 922

Cooling

Cooler Master RR-B10-212P-G1 Hyper 212 Plus

 

[zigzag3143]

Please provide us with your Event Viewer administrative logs by following these steps:


Click Start Menu
Type eventvwr into Search programs and files (do not hit enter)
Right click eventvwr.exe and click Run as administrator
Expand Custom Views
Click Administrative Events
Right click Administrative Events
Save all Events in Custom View As...
Save them in a folder where you will remember which folder and save as Errors.evtx
Go to where you saved Errors.evtx
Right click Errors.evtx -> send to -> compressed (zipped) folder
Upload the .zip file here.

 

[JMH]

I have run and run on an almost daily basis the following: All updated daily or when available.

Microsoft security essentials
Superantispyware
Malwarebytes
CCleaner
JV16 power tools 2011
Tuneup utilities 2012
Diskeeper 2012 (Just started using 2-3 days ago)

Comodo firewall

FYI.
The above two red entries...Tuneup utilities 2012 & CCleaner may have indeed contributed to your problems.

Generic advice -
If you do not have knowledge of the registry, then you would probably be better off leaving it alone, and definitely not placing blind trust in a program to do the job for you.

To advise anyone that a "Registry Cleaner" works, and that it will fix or speed up their machine {or all the other nonsense that is often propagated about these things} can mislead people.

Should you decide to go ahead -
Make sure you have
1.a current System Restore point created.
2.a recent "Back up" of your computer- preferably to an external HD.

 

[polorsport]

Thanks for the reply. Just found the update in my spam folder for some reason.

The errors zip is attached.

Please provide us with your Event Viewer administrative logs by following these steps:


Click Start Menu
Type eventvwr into Search programs and files (do not hit enter)
Right click eventvwr.exe and click Run as administrator
Expand Custom Views
Click Administrative Events
Right click Administrative Events
Save all Events in Custom View As...
Save them in a folder where you will remember which folder and save as Errors.evtx
Go to where you saved Errors.evtx
Right click Errors.evtx -> send to -> compressed (zipped) folder
Upload the .zip file here.

 

[polorsport]

Thanks for the tip. I actually ran them religiously because of the fact I spent so much on my pc and want to maintain it. Usually serious problems involve and hour and a half drive each way to microcenter and a big bill.

I have run and run on an almost daily basis the following: All updated daily or when available.

Microsoft security essentials
Superantispyware
Malwarebytes
CCleaner
JV16 power tools 2011
Tuneup utilities 2012
Diskeeper 2012 (Just started using 2-3 days ago)

Comodo firewall

FYI.
The above two red entries...Tuneup utilities 2012 & CCleaner may have indeed contributed to your problems.

Generic advice -
If you do not have knowledge of the registry, then you would probably be better off leaving it alone, and definitely not placing blind trust in a program to do the job for you.

To advise anyone that a "Registry Cleaner" works, and that it will fix or speed up their machine {or all the other nonsense that is often propagated about these things} can mislead people.

Should you decide to go ahead -
Make sure you have
1.a current System Restore point created.
2.a recent "Back up" of your computer- preferably to an external HD.

 

[zigzag3143]

In a word hard disk. Event viewer has literally hundreds of bad blocks and controller errors.

First thing, if you dont have a back up make one.

Then run chkdsk on all the HD's.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html



BTW the HD errors started appearing in January.

 

[polorsport]

I'm sorry if this sounds stupid. But, what should I make a backup of? Is it my c:, d:, or e:? Or are all my hard drives shot?

Both my d:, and e: where initially external hard drives that I opened from there external cases and made them into internal hard drives. Is that a mistake? Would you mind offering a suggestion for a good hard drive that is over 2tb? I already had one of my 2tb caviar blacks die on me in under a year. (It also was originally an external hd).

I will run the chkdsk shortly

 

[zigzag3143]

Event viewer seems to be saying the below. You should run CHKDSK on them all just in case.

IDE port 7

HD1 DR1

You will have to translate to your specs yourself.

 

[polorsport]

Thanks a lot I'm running it now.

Any recommendation for a reliable hard drive at or above 2tb?

 

[zigzag3143]

Thanks a lot I'm running it now.

Any recommendation for a reliable hard drive at or above 2tb?

I am probably the last person you want to ask for a HD recommend. I have had 5 go belly up in the last 18 months.

I would stay away from Maxtor, and seagate.

Run chkdsk first. It may just be the MBR.

 

[polorsport]

My bad on the delay just been really busy lately. I ran the chkdsk, now what should I do next?

 

[zigzag3143]

My bad on the delay just been really busy lately. I ran the chkdsk, now what should I do next?

Ok so what did it say?

 

[polorsport]

Is there a log I can copy and paste?

My c:, and D: where fine my E: had some errors. I just don't know where to find the log to share it.

 

[zigzag3143]

Is there a log I can copy and paste?

My c:, and D: where fine my E: had some errors. I just don't know where to find the log to share it.

If your OS drive is ok we can go on from there. Are you still having the problem?

 

[polorsport]

I have only used the pc for about an hour now. When I last used it 3 days ago, the entire pc froze on me multiple times. I have actually purchased another hard drive to replace the I guess dying e:. I just haven't installed it yet as I wasn't sure if that was my only issue.

 

[polorsport]

I found the logs from the chkdsk for the E:

Chkdsk was executed in read-only mode on a volume snapshot.

Checking file system on E:
Volume label is OLD Boot .

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
130048 file records processed. File verification completed.
495 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 0 EA records processed. 0 reparse records processed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
142100 index entries processed. Index verification completed.


CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
130048 file SDs/SIDs processed. Security descriptor verification completed.
6027 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
9159352 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
104093752 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete.
Found 7 bad clusters.
The Volume Bitmap is incorrect.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

1953511423 KB total disk space.
1536836376 KB in 77966 files.
34140 KB in 6028 indexes.
264687 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
416374980 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
488377855 total allocation units on disk.
104093745 allocation units available on disk.

 

[polorsport]

I ran it a few times. First when I clicked tools, error checking, check now. I tried it with both Automatically fix file system errors, and Scan for attempt recovery of bad sectors checked. I also ran with one of each checked, and once with neither checked. But, I don't know how to tell the difference in the logs.

 

[polorsport]

I removed my E: all together and thought that solved my problems. But, now I can even transfer video files to my flash drive without everything crashing. I recently changed the format from fat32 to ntfs and it worked ok yesterday but today everything is crashing. It will either stop working when there. Is 5 seconds left and may 10% of the bar. Or fill completely and stay there.

 

[writhziden]

It does not appear the disk checks were run to fix the problems, only to check for them. You need to have the disk checks find and fix errors. Use the following steps.

• Run Disk Check with both boxes checked for all HDDs and with Automatically fix file system errors checked for all SSDs. Post back your logs for the checks after finding them using http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/96938-check-disk-chkdsk-read-event-viewer-log.html.
  For any drives that do not give the message:
  Windows has checked the file system and found no problems
  run disk check again as above. In other words, if it says:
  Windows has made corrections to the file system
  after running the disk check, run the disk check again.