I have Windows 7 machine and occasionally (once or twice every few weeks) it "locks". It's a funny sort of lockup - I can still move the mouse and switch between processes but if I try and perform any disk access on any drive that process will lock/ not respond.
I have an i7 system on a Gigabyte X58A-UD7. I have three SSDs and a hard drive on various controllers. I have an additional SATA3 controller on a PCI-Express slot (this problem pre-dates me installing that).
When the problem occurs my machine is effectively useless. I think it happens when I am stressing the disks and I think it occurs more when my iphone is plugged in.
After I force a reboot there are no eventviewer logs etc. presumably as the disks won't write (frustrating - yes!).
My bios is up to date. I've got a feeling I need to update my ssd firmware (a pain as they need to be clean to do this) or update controller drivers or something...
Has anyone got any tips or similar experiences?
SMART:
I'm not sure of the best way to check SMART stats. I downloaded HDD Health and I have (drive, firmware version, health) :
Corsair Force 3, 1.3.2, Good
Verex3, 2.15, Normal
C300, 0001, Excellent
WD (WDC WD10EARS-00Z5B1), 80.00A80, Excellent
This seems ironic as the vertex3 is the newest drive aleit my boot drive. Also the C300 does not seem to report correctly.
Power Settings:
I hadn't thought about this but it could be relevant. Its a desktop (assuming you've get a desk big enough for a obsidian 800d) not a laptop but anyway.
Plan is Balanced.
Put the computer to sleep 5 hours.
Turn off hard disk after 20 minutes.
Hybrid sleep on.
USB selective suspend Enabled.
I think that is all the relevant settings.
Regards David
