Help needed with a Mobo/HDD

[daksha]

Greetings Forum Users,

 

This is my first time posting on a forum like this so that's awesome. 

Symptoms
                                                            -  Strange situation with a 5 day young Seagate Barracuda 1tb hard disk which seems to really slow down the system once connected to the motherboard. Copied in                                                                      some data but later, Media files would take forever to play. Same with Search of files in the partitions.

   
                                                            -  All tests and parameters are ok as tested on Seatools and HD tune for 3 days straight. Zero Formatted the drive yet no change in behaviour. 

                                                            - HDD exhibits slow response in Safe Mode. No disk / resource consuming programs in resource monitor.

                                                               Great read/Write speeds on benchmark tests but super slow to access and copy. 

- Today, I arranged for and connected the drive to a Powered Casing and used it on a different windows system and the drive works fine with no lag whatsoever.

How to go about the troubleshooting from this Point on?

I am now investigating the Power Supply, Operating System, Motherboard. How do we zero in on the culprit.?

De Facto   

                   -  The system freezes at shutting down if i have both the HDD and an external Drive connected, until i unplug the external drive. 

                   -  Connecting more than one power consuming devices like external drives, Midi Keyboard, Sound cards etc would result in

                       lesser power output to at least one of the devices connected to the USB ports.

                       Eg my Midi Controller wont fire up until I remove a external HD from the other USB port.

                 
 

PS
fx6100 Bulldozer
Asus m5A78M 
intel 5 series SSD bootable
Corsair 8gb 1600 DDR3
Focusrite 6i6 
Win 7 x64 Ultimate
500W SMPS

Grateful for your time....

[Brent744]

Your hardware is not the issue. If everything is functioning and just becoming slow, then I believe this is a software issue. I would completely wipe and reinstall Windows, I know its more of a pain to do with Windows 7, but the end result will be worth it.

 

 

[BigDamn]

I'm assuming you tried multiple sata ports on the motherboard? Or a different sata cable?

 

Have you tried unhooking unneeded shit and booting with just the essentials and that hard drive?

[daksha]

Good day Guys,

Thank you for the replies. I truly appreciate it.

 

I'm reporting in after a week to share updates.

- Yes, I tried multiple cables and all ports all to the same result so I ended up reinstalling windows.
despite the fact that reisntalling windows on an Audio Workstation is a 3 day affair. 
X64 WIndows Standard Embedded
Drive worked ok. Used it one whole day to check if the issue persisted.

- With no issues showing up, I started installing the network and HW drivers and the used the system several times over the next few days. Sometimes, windows would take a little longer than usual to load the partitions of the new drive but nothing worrisome. 

- Copied the data from backup drives to the hdd. and checked response speed of folder operations etc. No problems whatsoever. For once in many days, my mind would breeze over the ideas of ice cream, weed and some Apex, but after my last relationship, I've learnt to curb my enthusiasm more effectively. It helped me deal a little better with what happened next. 

- Installed all the softwares and plugins and other stuff like drivers and ui of soundcard etc

everything worked fine. for two days, rather till yesterday afternoon when i finished work and left for lunch. I had shut the system down.

 - When I powered the system back up, it wont move past windows logo. checked in BIOS and the new HDD wasn't showing. Replugged the connections and Bios detected the drive but windows won't detect it in Explorer. On trying to restart, the system won't move past shutting down and boom,
 BSOD. Driver Power State Failure 0x9F error. 

 

- Restarted in safe mode, drive took  a bit longer than usual to show in windows explorer but once it did, it worked smoothly. Ran Chkdsk. No errors.No errors. Changed RAM slots, replaced the ram sticks with different ones. Restarted the system, windows would load but freeze as soon as Desktop home screen loaded. FML

- Disconnected the New HDD, restarted the system only with SSD. Same issue. System boots and freezes at windows desktop home screen.
- Restarted System in Safe Mode. System booted as it should.
- Ran Event Viewer. Uploading the screenshots.
- initiated System Restore. And restarted the system.
- The system booted normally and worked absolutely fine.
- Reconnected the new HDD and restarted the system.
_ The system took a atleast 5 times the normal time to load and once done, Windows explorer took atleast 2 minutes to read all the partitions of the HDD after the device drivers were automatically installed.

I am sending this message from this point as I have no idea what to do about this situation. Any help would be much appreciated

.

PS: Just after typin in this post, I opened My Computer and the HDD is nowhere to be seen.
 
 

EV logs.evtx

[daksha]

On 5/8/2019 at 5:51 AM, BigDamn said:

I'm assuming you tried multiple sata ports on the motherboard? Or a different sata cable?

 

Have you tried unhooking unneeded shit and booting with just the essentials and that hard drive?

Yes, indeed. more details above along with Event viewer logs

[BigDamn]

Looking at your logs this looks like an issue I've seen once before on old AM3/AM3+ boards. Does your system freeze/hang briefly but otherwise perform normally?

 

It's possible it's actually your SSD causing this issue. The other time I've seen this was with a newer Samsung SSD that wasn't compatible with older chipsets and would often cause system to lock up for a few seconds. If your system performs fine by simply removing the HDD I would guess this isn't the problem, but certainly something to look into.

[daksha]

On 5/16/2019 at 2:17 PM, BigDamn said:

Looking at your logs this looks like an issue I've seen once before on old AM3/AM3+ boards. Does your system freeze/hang briefly but otherwise perform normally?

 

It's possible it's actually your SSD causing this issue. The other time I've seen this was with a newer Samsung SSD that wasn't compatible with older chipsets and would often cause system to lock up for a few seconds. If your system performs fine by simply removing the HDD I would guess this isn't the problem, but certainly something to look into.

well the system functions absolutely well without the internal HDD connected.  WIth the internal connceted, the system freezes for a bit when multiple processes are executed. Eg While analyzing audio files on DAW or Audacity, the system would freeze for a few seconds and the red light on the tower would be on. Same with playing audio on VLC when the progress bar is dragged  back and forth several times, the audio would briefly stop and come back on again after about 20 seconds or so. Pretty annoying