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Alright so i bought a Ibuypower pc a year ago.Original Specs-AMD-FX-4300 R7 250 4gb Ram Windows 8.1 (64-BIT)WD 1TB Blue-original Drive that had bad sectors and showed as bad in several hardrive utility programs. And it worked fine for about 6 months i also upgraded the video card to a GTX 760 (2GB).Then around the 7th month my hardrive usage would spike to 100% and slow my computer down to a complete standstill. I tried to fix it by doing all these taboo things like turning of certain system services (windows search etc)but nothing seemed to work. after scrolling through countless forums threads i found one where someone was in the same situation and none of the fixes worked for him so he bought a new hardrive and it fixed the issue. Ok. So i go buy a new hardrive (WD RED 2tb) and plug it in to my computer. windows installs everything is happy dandy. i got chrome downloaded and everything was good. several hours later i was watching a youtube video and it froze. weird. I usually don't buffer at all or anything of the sort.so i restart chrome and navigate back to youtube and videos still won't play. dumbfounded i for some reason decide to take a look at task manager and guess what? disk usage sporadicly spiking up and down and hitting 100%. Just downloaded a couple disk utilitys but they all say my hardrive is completly fine.

my old one had alot of bad sectors on it so i thought that was why my disk usage was sitting at 100% but this one shows no issues in any utilitys but is doing the same thing as the old one.Why is this brand new hardrive doing the same thing as my old one but dosen't show any issues with a S.M.A.R.T test or anything like the old one did?

is it my motherboard or something? I've just about lost it with this computer.

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OP, have you done a memory test? Is anything overheating?

 

 

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the problem is that you bought a prebuilt

why did you not build it?

 

 

Why are you using a NAS drive?

 

If you're not going to be the least bit helpful, don't bother replying to these topics please.

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OP, have you done a memory test? Is anything overheating?

 

 

 

 

 

If you're not going to be the least bit helpful, don't bother replying to these topics please.

When My uncle came over he ran a memtest and it passed the first one (he ran it for about 45 min till he had to go but it passed) 

Could memory really be the culprit of a weird issue like this one? 

Wouldn't the computer simply not post if the memory was so screwed that it was causing an issue like this one?

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In red my disk usage.

 

In black the reason why its at said %.

 

Means I am transferring data.

 

All you need to do is work out what is using your disk.

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It said it was the "system" that was using up all the drive but it wasn't showing a high MB/S rating like you'res does. it was chilling at like 0.1MB/S but was the only thing that was red and using any disk at the time. 

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Try disabling updates. It's likely something in the background updating / downloading files

But Would that explain why any video playback on any website such as youtube or vessel won't work?

or why my WoW client suddenly won't open? 

i have no trouble browsing the web but for some reason i have those issues ^^

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But Would that explain why any video playback on any website such as youtube or vessel won't work?

or why my WoW client suddenly won't open? 

i have no trouble browsing the web but for some reason i have those issues ^^

well, if it's downloading like 50 updates at the same time, it will likely use up all the bandwidth pretty easy. Also it will use up the HDD as well if it is installing stuff.

Thanks!

 

Chris R.

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When My uncle came over he ran a memtest and it passed the first one (he ran it for about 45 min till he had to go but it passed) 

Could memory really be the culprit of a weird issue like this one? 

Wouldn't the computer simply not post if the memory was so screwed that it was causing an issue like this one?

 

If the test passed then the memory is fine. But weird stuff does happen, so it's best to cover all the bases.

 

What about your temperatures? Do you have a full spec sheet for your PC?

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If the test passed then the memory is fine. But weird stuff does happen, so it's best to cover all the bases.

 

What about your temperatures? Do you have a full spec sheet for your PC?

MSI 760GMA-P34 FX with AMD 760G/SB710 microATX Motherboard - Socket AM3+

GTX 760 REFRENCE (2GB)

 

4GB RAM

 

AMD-FX-4300 

 

WD RED 2TB-64MB CACHE

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If the test passed then the memory is fine. But weird stuff does happen, so it's best to cover all the bases.

 

What about your temperatures? Do you have a full spec sheet for your PC?

Is there any way i could let you remote in and take a look at things? this is a fresh install so i don't really care what anyone sees. 

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