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I really can't figure out what is causing hard freezes on my system. They are very random, and not when playing games or doing some stress computational problems. But almost every time I run windows backup, after about 10-20 minutes I get hard freeze with a sound of whistle on speakers. (but also when not running backup, but those freezes are not as frequent, but still have same whistle sound).

It looks like is something on HDD. I have two HDDs installed, both Sata-2, AHCI mode. I've disabled the old one first, but it also came down to hard freezing up a system. Now I think that is possible that newer HDD is problem causer. Disk is Samsung F3 1TB. How can I check disk for possible errors?

Is there any possibility that the problem is somewhere else? I have updated all the drivers and system is pretty clean. I have no other problems whatsoever.

Thank's!

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What can be said so far: it is either a driver or hardware problem. Cooling can also be an issue, you could monitor the core temperature to figure it out. Your motherboard software has probably a tool to show that figure. (but unlikely: you made some stress tests)

I also had quite a bad time with HDD drives on a brand new box: see sata: hdd stuttering on reads(led on). Because the box was new, I did not know where to start with. I tried almost everything out like switching from AHCI to IDE mode and many other games. Maybe this gives you some hints. Note that the tools to check the HDD didn't show up any problems in my case and with a replacement drive the problems were away. The disk just had a hard job in reading the data I guess, retrying for ages. If the symptoms are the same (HDD LED keeps being on during the freeze of more than a few minutes) maybe the same issue in your case.

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jdehaan
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If it's not your hard disk, then it will be a driver or a hardware problem...

If it would be a driver, your best bet is to start a topic in the Sysinternals Forums - Troubleshooting to identify the driver by generating and analyzing a crash dump.

How can I check disk for possible errors?

Check out my recent post:
When to stop using a hard drive? What rules/software apply?

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Tamara Wijsman
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So, my problem was over-clocked CPU and more than that, CPU voltage was set lower than it's default value. But the strange thing is, that with that setting CPU stress tests and playing games worked fine.

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