Computer completely unresponsive (no BSOD)

[Special Agent 星雨]

EDIT 1 - Finished running chkdsk /f /r (C:) but realised when I finshed that C drive was actually one of the HDDs... which got me thinking that perhaps my main drive, the 970 Pro 512GB SSD is somehow not being detected hence the Windows issues?

EDIT 2 - Ran chkdsk through all the other drive letters (D, E, F, G) and none of them were my 970 Pros.

EDIT 3 - Attempted to reset without losing personal files, immediately resulted in error. Attempted a complete reset, same result.

 

EDIT 4 - Checked BIOS and my Kingston SUV400 SSD had a higher priority boot order over my 970 Pro, fixed that.

 

EDIT 5 - Currently broken out of the automatic repair loop, have successfully logged into Windows 10.

Hi all,

 

Recently (16 hrs ago) I changed my PC case from a Thermaltake View 71 to a Fractal Design Define R6.

 

After re-assembling the crucial components I did a test boot and everything was good, so I continued to assemble the rest of the parts.

 

However, upon loading PUBG after everything was done and dusted, I quickly noticed things started to freeze one after another when I tabbed out to look for an e-mail.

 

First it was chrome, it became unresponsive and had that white tint over it as if that "Chrome.exe has stopp working" window would popup, but it never did. Then discord, then the file explorer and eventually the task bar, mail app and the game.

 

Now I have the game installed on a separate drive from Chrome, but not all steam games are, so maybe there's a connection there?

 

And I realised soon enough after many force restarts that this will happen a few minutes after booting up/logging in, no matter what I do.

 

Is this just a pure coincidence that one of my hard drives is dying? Or have I overlooked something in re-assembly process?

 

I currently have command promot running a chkdsk /r on all the drives (have only done 970 Pro and am doing I think the 2TB WD Blue right now), because upon going through 'Automatic Repair' multiple times at boot, Windows keeps saying something like 'Automatic repair has failed' and links me to some text log file which I can't even access since the computer doesn't boot.

 

Specs:

 

i7 8700K @ 5Ghz stable.

 

GTX 1080Ti with NZXT X42/G12 @ 2Ghz stable

 

32GB Trisent Z RGB @ 3000Mhz C15

 

Asus Z370-E motherboard

 

1 x 970 Pro 512GB NVMe SSD

 

1 x 2TB WD Blue (bought early 2018)

 

1x 1TB  WD Green (extracted from a HDD

enclosure, probably like 7-10 years old)

 

1 x Kingston SUV400? 240GB SSD

 

1 x Crucial MX300 750GB SSD

 

EVGA 850 P2 PSU

 

A shit ton of Asus Aura Sync RGB fans

2 fan controllers inside the case, including the one that comes with the case.

 

CPU, GPU, motherboard power cable extensions from CableMod.

Fractal Design Define R6 Blackout w/ USB-c

 

Any further information needed PLEASE ask

Edited December 29, 2018 by Special Agent 星雨

[vK 3 1 RON]

I mean. First thing first, I'd remove the overclock you've got on everything, you say 'Stable' but it don't look very stable to me

[Jurrunio]

Use crystaldiskinfo and check drives SMART status.

[Special Agent 星雨]

4 minutes ago, vK 3 1 RON said:

I mean. First thing first, I'd remove the overclock you've got on everything, you say 'Stable' but it don't look very stable to me

I've had my CPU running at 5.0 Ghz @ 1.33v in Cinebench, Aida64 and Prime 95 AVX/no AVX all overnight, at least 8 hours (not concurrently of course) and have found no issues, stress tests were repeated when I assembled this late last year.

 

I do not believe a case change would result i  my previously stable OCs to become not stable.

[Special Agent 星雨]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Use crystaldiskinfo and check drives SMART status.

I will try that, thanks.

[vK 3 1 RON]

1 minute ago, Special Agent 星雨 said:

I've had my CPU running at 5.0 Ghz @ 1.33v in Cinebench, Aida64 and Prime 95 AVX/no AVX all overnight, at least 8 hours (not concurrently of course) and have found no issues, stress tests were repeated when I assembled this late last year.

 

I do not believe a case change would result i  my previously stable OCs to become not stable.

Well one thing I've found from Computers + Coding is that it never follows through with logic despite being completely logic-dependent. If you don't want to try troubleshooting this option, don't. I ain't here to force you, I was giving you a suggestion for what you could try to get a stable system right now. Unfortunately that was my ideas exploited so I'm going to leave this to other valuable members of this community  

[Jurrunio]

3 minutes ago, Special Agent 星雨 said:

I've had my CPU running at 5.0 Ghz @ 1.33v in Cinebench, Aida64 and Prime 95 AVX/no AVX all overnight, at least 8 hours (not concurrently of course) and have found no issues, stress tests were repeated when I assembled this late last year.

 

I do not believe a case change would result i  my previously stable OCs to become not stable.

It could run hotter and get unstable that way though.

[kb5zue]

Something tells me that no matter what speed you are running your system at whether it is 3.0, 4.0, or 5.0Ghz that if it doesn't run right or if the system fails to boot, or crashes, or whatever, then it isn't stable.  Remove the overclock and see what happens.  If the system does not fail after removing the overclock, then obviously the OC has something to do with the instability.

[Special Agent 星雨]

6 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

It could run hotter and get unstable that way though.

I was monitoring the tempratures during gameplay, and although higher temperatures could of course lead to instabilty, my temperatures were actually lower since I changed radiator placements for both the GPU and CPU to exhaust fan locations (previously it was intake and exhaust respectively).

 

But it makes sense to revert everything possible change I've made that could cause instability.

 

I will remove the overclocks when I can and test it out, thanks.