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withkittens2014-04-27 19:07:46
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withkittens, 2014-04-27 19:07:46

The computer hangs intermittently (disk or motherboard)

Periodically (every 3-7 days) I encounter a complete freeze of the computer: the cursor stops moving, the music continues to play for a couple of minutes, then wheezing, then it stops. In addition to all this, the only symptom is the included HDD indicator of the system unit. Accordingly, there is no way to enter either Task Manager or Performance Monitor. I tried to wait several times (they say, “it will resolve”) - nothing changes in 20 minutes.
After the reboot, the first thing I do is go to the Eveng Log and find five (and always five) events: "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0."
Jumped to the mat. board SATA cables from drives to other connectors. The Controller error is gone, but the freezes remain.
My question is this: Is there a way (so far without service centers) to localize the problem? I sin either on one of the connected disks, or on a mat. fee. I looked at SMART from disks, I didn’t find anything wrong, but I could be mistaken.
Mat. board - GA-B85-HD3
Drives - Seagate ST1000DX001 , Kingston SV300S37A/120G
UPD: SMARTs

Kingston SV300
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Seagate ST1000
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upd: I made a utility on my knee that logs disk activity of physical disks every second + top 5 processes with IO activity. I'll try to catch a lag, there are no more thoughts yet.

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withkittens, 2014-07-02
@withkittens

Hundreds of time has passed, but I am writing for those of you who are still following the question for one reason or another.
It was possible to achieve a stable recurrence of a similar symptom when using uTorrent : when launching a large torrent (say, 20-120 GiB), uTorrent consumes all free RAM in a matter of seconds ( RAMMap reports mapped file (s) of cosmic dimensions), the system goes into a wild, non-awakening swap, and the value of memory hard faults/sec reaches thousands. hard reset.
Cured by using qBitTorrent for large torrents.
The reasons for random freezes remained unclear (because they periodically occurred without torrents). Changed mat. board (the previous one still had problems in the form of two dead and, accordingly, unused memory slots) on the GA-H87-HD3 - the freezes stopped.

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pigah, 2014-04-27
@pigah

I had the same problem, since the computer was under warranty and the disk was changed for free, most likely the one on which the OS is installed broke down and I think it will not be possible to fix it even at the service center

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killla, 2014-04-27
@killla

1) check the PSU. Sometimes such glitches give out that you don’t immediately think about it
2) you check the disks, connecting them one by one and waiting for the problem to appear
3) there may be a software problem, try another OS (reinstall or install in parallel)

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Egor Ogurtsov, 2014-04-27
@mrdubz

I have very similar freezes disappeared after uninstalling Avast antivirus.

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