Around summer last year I installed a new hard drive, and shortly afterwards I found that every time I got into mid/late game Civilization V my pc would crash. I found that my cpu was overheating and so I got better cooling and now my temperatures are all fine. Before I got the cooling I found the game would work if I shut off all background tasks. The Bsods persisted, however, and each time they occured my new HDD would disconnect and I'd have to fiddle with the internal wiring to get it to connect again (although nothing ever actually seemed to actually unplug).
A few weeks ago I discovered my original hdd was getting bad sectors and so I moved windows over onto my second HDD and put it in the slot the original, functional hdd was always in with connections to the motherboard and the space on the internal rack (it was a bit cramped beneath with my graphics card).
For ages the only program which would cause this was Civilization V (and Beyond Earth), however recently it has occurred with WoW and CS once I've been playing them for a while. I left memtest to run overnight and after many passes it had found no errors, and chkdsk never came up with anything (until one hdd started getting bad sectors).
If anyone can help it would be much appreciated.
A few weeks ago I discovered my original hdd was getting bad sectors and so I moved windows over onto my second HDD and put it in the slot the original, functional hdd was always in with connections to the motherboard and the space on the internal rack (it was a bit cramped beneath with my graphics card).
For ages the only program which would cause this was Civilization V (and Beyond Earth), however recently it has occurred with WoW and CS once I've been playing them for a while. I left memtest to run overnight and after many passes it had found no errors, and chkdsk never came up with anything (until one hdd started getting bad sectors).
If anyone can help it would be much appreciated.
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My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 64 bitIntel i7 2600kCorsair DDR3 2x4GBMSI GTX 760 2GB
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Custom build
- OS
- Windows 7 64 bit
- CPU
- Intel i7 2600k
- Motherboard
- Asus P8P67-M
- Memory
- Corsair DDR3 2x4GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- MSI GTX 760 2GB
- Hard Drives
- Western Digital Blue 1TB WD10EZEX
- Antivirus
- Kaspersky Pure 3.0
- Browser
- Chrome