[Solved] GPU assumably died, now getting HDD issues

Fen · January 23, 2018

The other day my computer froze while playing a game, and upon rebooting I was getting short, green horizontal lines all over my screen, and my GPU wasn't detected under Dxdiag.

I tried to re-install Nvidia drivers, but as said, my card wasn't detected at all.

I took the card out, cleaned it of dust, and applied new thermal paste, but to no avail.

Afterwards, I installed my integrated graphics drivers and ran with that, but now my boot times have increased significantly for no good reason (in the Windows loading screen), and I'm having trouble reading data off of one hard drive, even though Hard Disk Sentinel says it's 100% fine. It's not fragmented according to Windows, and it's still got ~200gb free out of 1.8tb. I wasn't having any difficulty reading off it prior to the GPU incident.

I used CrystalDiskMark to check read/write speeds for all hard drives, and it's only that one drive that's refusing to be read. Results.

I tested my PSU with one of these, and the readings were just fine.

After testing it and putting it back into my case, I forgot to connect the SATA power, and it booted up as it should, without unnecessary waiting.

What gives?

My specs

Asus Z97-A

4790k (no oc)

GTX Titan

Corsair CS750M

24gb RAM (2x 8gb, 2x 4gb)

Samsung 950 Pro M.2 256gb SSD (boot drive)

5x HDD + 1 external

Windows 7

Nvidia driver 361.43

ElSeniorTaco · January 23, 2018

That is odd.

Have you tried swapping the sata connectors (data) for another slot and seeing if a different drive has the issue now?

Chkdsk on the problematic drive?

is it one of those hybrid drives that have a small ssd built in to make it a little snappier?

Fen · January 23, 2018

Haven't tried swapping the SATA cables, will try that tomorrow. Same with Chkdsk.

I forget what the drive is, but the model ID suggests it's a WD Green.

Fen · January 24, 2018

I fiddled around with the SATA cables and ran chkdsk, and it seems to have fixed it. I can read/write to the drive normally now, and my other drives are still fine.

Thank you!