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Trouble with my PC
3 years ago
Well I might be cursed.
I have two pcs: one in my apartment and another in my mom's house just in case I have to work when I'm visiting her. BOTH broke down on the same day! DX
No worries, both are already fixed (I still have my doubts on my apartment's pc, though). I have two questions: The technician told me one PC (the one in my mom's house) has a function on the motherboard that will shut itself down when there's a power surge (weird since I use a no break) so it doesn't, you know, die. Question one: Does anyone knew about this? this is the first time I've heard about it. I use a GA H270-Gaming 3 motherboard and I can't find any guides online mentioning that feature.
Now my other PC works ok-ish. It used to have a solid-state drive for windows use only, but it suddenly started getting a blue screen randomly, forcing itself to reboot. Now, I noticed it did that only when I had the windows file explorer open for longer than usual times so no problem: just close the file explorer every time I open a file. Well, the problem is that later the blue screen started appearing even before I got into windows, so working on it was impossible. I've already formated the solid-state drive three times but the problem keeps appearing a few days later. I removed the drive and added an old laptop hard drive I had and it works just fine now. Problem is it's slow as a snail. Question 2: does anyone know if it might have anything to do with the solid state drive or is this just one more bug on windows 10's arsenal (since it seems to fix itself for a few days when I update windows)?
I have two pcs: one in my apartment and another in my mom's house just in case I have to work when I'm visiting her. BOTH broke down on the same day! DX
No worries, both are already fixed (I still have my doubts on my apartment's pc, though). I have two questions: The technician told me one PC (the one in my mom's house) has a function on the motherboard that will shut itself down when there's a power surge (weird since I use a no break) so it doesn't, you know, die. Question one: Does anyone knew about this? this is the first time I've heard about it. I use a GA H270-Gaming 3 motherboard and I can't find any guides online mentioning that feature.
Now my other PC works ok-ish. It used to have a solid-state drive for windows use only, but it suddenly started getting a blue screen randomly, forcing itself to reboot. Now, I noticed it did that only when I had the windows file explorer open for longer than usual times so no problem: just close the file explorer every time I open a file. Well, the problem is that later the blue screen started appearing even before I got into windows, so working on it was impossible. I've already formated the solid-state drive three times but the problem keeps appearing a few days later. I removed the drive and added an old laptop hard drive I had and it works just fine now. Problem is it's slow as a snail. Question 2: does anyone know if it might have anything to do with the solid state drive or is this just one more bug on windows 10's arsenal (since it seems to fix itself for a few days when I update windows)?
The motherboard though? Never heard of it.
As was mentioned already, either your SSD is about to die, or it is too small. My parents PC recently started having the same issue, and it turned out the tiny 32GB mSATA SSD boot drive wasn't enough to even hold Windows anymore. It's ballooned out massively in the last 2-3 years, and it's now too big for most older SSD's. 128GB is even risky if you want to have other programs on your boot disk as well. Min would be 256GB, but really, 1TB drives have come down in price enough that they're a better option. Just my 2 cents though, I recommend looking into it a little more and just going for what you can afford.
The thing about the ssd is really interesting! It might explain why windows mentions how my PC can´t handle windows 11 (I'm using 10 right now). You might be up to something there. I'll investigate more about it, thanks!
Maybe I'm boarding this the wrong way. I'll have to check my PC slowly and piece by piece. Nevertheless, you've been quite the help! thank you :D
... seriously, Capcom don't want competing against itself, so it won't release any fighting games besides Street Fighter.
If you want to pinpoint what it is for sure, check the time when you encounter your issues. Then go to the search bar on your task bar and type "Event Viewer" and open it.
You should get a window with a few options, you will want to click Custom View > Administrative Events. Then look for the events that took place at the time you encountered the issue.
A Log Name, Source, and an Event ID will be listed if you click on that event.
With that information, you can type it into Google and search for what would cause that error or post it to others for help. This should narrow down what's going on.
And don't worry, you're not late at all: my PC is still giving me some headaches. I'm using the one at my mom's house right now.
About Question 2: Have you tried the testing the SSD on a different PC. If the PC can read your SSD, then it's likely okay as long as you can boot it back up on your original PC. You can perform a chkdsk on the command prompt to see if there are any errors in the drive.
And as for my second PC, we can discard the SSD as the culprit since I'm using an old laptop hardrive now and it's still giving me the blue screen of death. I think the ram is the one responsible for all this, though. It seemed to work well for a while once I cleaned the card and slots, but the blue screen came back 24 hours later. I just hope it's just the ram card that needs replacing and not the entire motherboard.
Also, best of luck on your second PC 😮