More freezing and more lock ups on idle

[CarolinaKSU]

I had this problem a while back and ended up just scrapping the entire thing and moving into a 1.5TB RAID0 array, so not lack of space now! Anyway, what is happening is when I let my pc idle for extended periods, anything longer than half an hour it seems like, i get random lockups and complete freezes. No response, no BSOD, nothing, just a windows desktop whose clock is frozen in time.

Although, a common theme with these most recent lockups is that it seems like they occur under heavy network use. I was getting them when transferring a huge ISO file while using FileZilla and most recently while streaming videos from the pc to my PS3 via wireless. Can a messed up network adapter cause an entire system to freeze like this? If anyone has any advice, please please help. I am getting desperate with my now lemon a pc..

 

[Nick89]

Hmm, this is very weird.

Maby its trying to go into sleep mode and thats making it lock up, making you're Raid lose sync because its shutting down your hard drives? I dunno man. :/

I've been getting random small browser lock ups when saving/opening files on my computer. They last anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes

 

[Mussels]

problems like that could be caused by the HDD's going into a sleep state, and not waking up. disable that in the windows control panel, under power settings.

 

[Nick89]

Exactly what mussels said!

goto the control panel and goto Performance and Maintenance, then goto power options and make sure turn off disk's is set to never.

 

[CarolinaKSU]

problems like that could be caused by the HDD's going into a sleep state, and not waking up. disable that in the windows control panel, under power settings.

Unfortunately, I already checked that.. They are already set to never turn off in the power settings. This is very very frustrating :shadedshu

 

[Apocolypse007]

I had this problem a while back and ended up just scrapping the entire thing and moving into a 1.5TB RAID0 array, so not lack of space now! Anyway, what is happening is when I let my pc idle for extended periods, anything longer than half an hour it seems like, i get random lockups and complete freezes. No response, no BSOD, nothing, just a windows desktop whose clock is frozen in time.

Although, a common theme with these most recent lockups is that it seems like they occur under heavy network use. I was getting them when transferring a huge ISO file while using FileZilla and most recently while streaming videos from the pc to my PS3 via wireless. Can a messed up network adapter cause an entire system to freeze like this? If anyone has any advice, please please help. I am getting desperate with my now lemon a pc..

Check the frontpage. Apparently you're not alone with this issue. A firmware upgrade is promised and should fix the issue, but I'm not sure when it is to be released.

 

[CarolinaKSU]

Yeah, maybe Samsung can come out with a firmware upgrade for mine.. If it was that simple I would be overjoyed

 

[Mussels]

he has samsung 750's, not seagate 1.5TB.s

All i can think of now, is that its definately hardware, and the best way to locate it is process of elimination - taking bits of hardware out of the PC.

Do you have a spare HDD? I'd suggest taking the RAID out, booting your OS off a single HDD and seeing if the problem goes away. You could have a bad raid controller, or just a whacky compatibility issue.

 

[CarolinaKSU]

he has samsung 750's, not seagate 1.5TB.s

All i can think of now, is that its definately hardware, and the best way to locate it is process of elimination - taking bits of hardware out of the PC.

Do you have a spare HDD? I'd suggest taking the RAID out, booting your OS off a single HDD and seeing if the problem goes away. You could have a bad raid controller, or just a whacky compatibility issue.

Well I'm back.. I have had internet troubles all day and had to fight with the ISP to get cable modems added and deleted etc, etc.. But I think that is a good idea, I have my old 500gb WD Caviar as a backup drive and is being used as a pagefile.

Should it prove not to be a random hardware problem but turns out to be something with the RAID, what can I do to continue using it? What would be a way to check to make sure the actual disks themselves arent failing?