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dell inspiron desktop 660/ windows 7 freezing up
hello,
my dell inspiron desktop 660 is freezing up -
am only using 9% of hard drive-
if I leave my pc on for an hour or a day- it usually starts making this noise every 2 seconds- hard to describe - but a hard drive sound- da da da da - usually try to get online after touch mouse or keyboard to awaken pc- and then it freezes or moves real slow-
tried malware bytes, super anti-spyware- running check disk on boot up- disk defrag-
usually one boot up solve problem and noise goes away and can use computer - sometime have to reboot 2x
can it be my hard drive? or os?
it's happening now all the time
thank you
my dell inspiron desktop 660 is freezing up -
am only using 9% of hard drive-
if I leave my pc on for an hour or a day- it usually starts making this noise every 2 seconds- hard to describe - but a hard drive sound- da da da da - usually try to get online after touch mouse or keyboard to awaken pc- and then it freezes or moves real slow-
tried malware bytes, super anti-spyware- running check disk on boot up- disk defrag-
usually one boot up solve problem and noise goes away and can use computer - sometime have to reboot 2x
can it be my hard drive? or os?
it's happening now all the time
thank you
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thank you - will get back here after try things tommorow
thank you
thank you
FYI
The guide for using the Dell Diagnostics can be found at this link:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~deke/laptopsupport/manuals/d600/diag.htm
Also could be from the PCU fan debris causing overheating and excessive fan speed to try and compensate...
A overheated PCU can aslo be the the weak link...
I prefer UBCD diagnostic tests to get to the root cause of your problem
The guide for using the Dell Diagnostics can be found at this link:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~deke/laptopsupport/manuals/d600/diag.htm
Also could be from the PCU fan debris causing overheating and excessive fan speed to try and compensate...
A overheated PCU can aslo be the the weak link...
I prefer UBCD diagnostic tests to get to the root cause of your problem
also - is there a cd in the drive? that can cause weird sounds also
ASKER
the diagnostic tests say bad hard drive- thank you
also - are you sure it is the HDD?
look also in event viewer for errors - or warnings
test if it happens with a clean boot also :
run msconfig - select startup tab, click disable all
reboot and test