Malfunctioning hard drive?

[NextGenFirex]

Hello, My name is Kristian, I'm from Latvia and currently have a pc mainly to play Rust or Path of Exile. I've come across a weird issue recently where while playing path of exile, my game simply crashes on itself, and I doubt it because of my systems specs (Will list below). And a few minutes before writing this post, my computer froze completely, for the 2nd time, but this time my headset was spewing sound repeats as if 1 note was played really quickly on repeat, and also changing the pitch, till shortly ~10 seconds later, it stopped and the red light on the pc stopped blinking. I'm assuming my hard drive is starting to fail, but I'm not sure so I'm asking here for help. 

 

 

(Images) Display 1 is 1360x768 (32bit) (60Hz) [Both are LG, but display 2 is a TV with HDMI, Display 1 is a monitor but VGA, cause my GPU doesn't have 2 HDMI, only VGA, DVI, HDMI.)

 

[Gamerguy207]

How long have you had the drive?

[unknownmiscreant]

6 minutes ago, NextGenFirex said:

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Try run a HDD test utility, there is one WD's website. Not sure about seagate.

[NextGenFirex]

3 minutes ago, Gamerguy207 said:

How long have you had the drive?

About a year. bought it pre-built from a company in my country. Would have listed the specs for it here, but they updated their gear and that list is now gone.

[bcguru9384]

1 minute ago, unknownmiscreant said:

Try run a HDD test utility, there is one WD's website. Not sure about seagate.

try opening taskmanager then right click on game exe

is there an option callad virtualize?

or set cpu affinity to 2 cores max(game engine crash on multithread data)

 

[Gamerguy207]

3 minutes ago, NextGenFirex said:

About a year. bought it pre-built from a company in my country. Would have listed the specs for it here, but they updated their gear and that list is now gone.

Well make a backup for your pc on a flash drive just in case it fails and run a test on it or it could be the games problem do you see this problem repeatedly on other applications?

 

also does the hard drive make funny sounds?

[NextGenFirex]

6 minutes ago, bcguru9384 said:

try opening taskmanager then right click on game exe

is there an option callad virtualize?

or set cpu affinity to 2 cores max(game engine crash on multithread data)

 

 

That one?

Well make a backup for your pc on a flash drive just in case it fails and run a test on it or it could be the games problem do you see this problem repeatedly on other applications?

 

also does the hard drive make funny sounds?

 

Yes, only in Path of Exile it crashes, most of the time suddenly. And while having the game open for now, i hear no unfamiliar sounds.

[NextGenFirex]

Installed WD Data LifeGuard diagnostics, and am running an extended test currently, on my one single 1TB drive. Estimated to take 1.5hours to complete, will reply when done.

[NextGenFirex]

2 hours ago, unknownmiscreant said:

Try run a HDD test utility, there is one WD's website. Not sure about seagate.

 

2 hours ago, Gamerguy207 said:

Well make a backup for your pc on a flash drive just in case it fails and run a test on it or it could be the games problem do you see this problem repeatedly on other applications?

 

also does the hard drive make funny sounds?

I have the results from the diagnostics test, and it's a PASS, so I guess it's a problem with something internally?

[unknownmiscreant]

1 hour ago, NextGenFirex said:

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Try resinstall your audio and graphics drivers. They have caused issues for me in the past.

[bcguru9384]

4 hours ago, NextGenFirex said:

 

That one?

Yes, only in Path of Exile it crashes, most of the time suddenly. And while having the game open for now, i hear no unfamiliar sounds.

i dont remember it saying UAC but if this does what i think then it shouldnt hurt to have enabled

i think most effective will be set affinity(max 4 cores)

do you have 1 or 2 hdd drives???

this not fast drive for write but decent on read as you can use dvdrw drive and disc but set disc to be an open/not finalized burn session 

now windows will write and read the dvdrw as if it were a hdd drive

this makes for a good temporary files drive or if fast write speeds a nice pagefile drive