Dying motherboard...?

[Mad_Beard]

For almost half a year now I'm using a Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3, everything was correctly set up and installed, even tryed to OC my lovely 2500k a bit and everything was absolutely stable for months now. When suddenly...

... one morning the internet wasn't working. And minutes later I've got a dpc_watchdog_violation. Tryed investigating, network in safe mode was working correctly, uninstalled here all the network drivers, rebooted - got no internet, but no BSOD so far. So I went on and tryed installing the network drivers and as soon as it started installing the drivers, the system froze and got the same BSOD. Went on, checked the minidump in the diag tool - problems with ntoskrnl.exe. Found some stuff on the interwebs, people talking about the system being unable to install drivers for a plug and play device, usually wireless network adapter (I have none) so kept trying messing around with the network, nothing helped.

Since my OS was about 2 years old, messy, I ended up making a clean install. Set up everything, everything is working, no more BSOD, no other problems... except some weird noises from the case... at first I thought it some of those old Silverstone fans I have in, but then the data HDD (system on SSD) suddenly turned off. PC kept working, no disconnected device sound in windows, nothing, simply the HDD just turned off at it's own. About 3 seconds later it started back up and so far, everything is fine. Haven't restarted the PC since then (just happened a while ago). Currently I'm running HD Tune Pro error scan on it and freeing up space on external HDD to make a fast backup of that shutting down HDD.

 

What is going on? Out of nowhere first this BSOD stuff, now this HDD turning on and off at it's own.... ??? What could it cause? The BSOD, ok, my system was messy, but was working perfectly fine and stable for months, and now without any change being made, no installations, driver changes, system updates, it just started BSODing. Messy OS? Motherboard I/O related problem? 

 

Haven't checked anything in the case, yeah, the HDD power/SATA cable could be loose, but... how? The case is perfectly wedged between the wall and desk, haven't been moved for months. Waiting the error scan to finish then I might check it but I doubt it would be loose.

[Enderman]

obviously your HDD is dying....

download crystaldiskinfo to confirm

then buy a new HDD

[Mad_Beard]

Sectors are looking good so far. In Health everything's ok too, except Interface CRC Error Count, which is:

[Redicat]

Sectors are looking good so far. In Health everything's ok too, except Interface CRC Error Count, which is:

That is pritty BAD! have backed up data this is unrecovereable if you got S.M.A.R.T it should already gave a bunch of warnings.

 

Backup and trash the thing...

 

Or try this after all you never know

Problem is this is when it isnt be able to write & read anymore  ^

 

In your case it's permanent damage so i hardly doubt the thing is ever gonna be recovered.

[Mad_Beard]

rly? Permanent damage? Error scan is close to the end and so far not a single damaged block and if I understand right, Interface CRC Error Count refers to communication errors which are usually caused by the cable. Or in worst case the HDD's electronics. But I can't tell what does the value 69 mean, if it's still ok, or it's a lot, dunno. Anyway, I'm definitely gonna check the cable and do a backup as soon as the error scan ends. And then use the HDD only for storing non-valuable stuff like meowsic and stuff.

[Guest Generallee]

That is pritty BAD! have backed up data this is unrecovereable if you got S.M.A.R.T it should already gave a bunch of warnings.

 

CRC errors are not catastrophic, they can be caused by a bad cable

[Mad_Beard]

[Redicat]

rly? Permanent damage? Error scan is close to the end and so far not a single damaged block and if I understand right, Interface CRC Error Count refers to communication errors which are usually caused by the cable. Or in worst case the HDD's electronics. But I can't tell what does the value 69 mean, if it's still ok, or it's a lot, dunno. Anyway, I'm definitely gonna check the cable and do a backup as soon as the error scan ends. And then use the HDD only for storing non-valuable stuff like meowsic and stuff.

Well yeah the circuit or interface is demaged and i'm use you already tried another Sata Cable if not i'm sorry

 

If you don't want amateurs than provide extra information like those pictures... i didnt atually know what CRC means anyway now i do.

[Mad_Beard]

Checked the cable, everything is rock solid, but oh boy there is a ton of dust!

As I said, the cable wasn't loose, but I'm not going to swap the cable right now, heard some pretty horrible noises coming from the HDD, maybe it was just seeking and from close it sounded so loud, but I don't want to risk...

 

PS: i have a slight feeling that those Silverstone fans a bit leaking...