Solve : Faulty Harddrive??

1.	Solve : Faulty Harddrive??
Answer» I have recently built my own computer. (About November Last Year) Parts: HTTP://nz.pcpartpicker.com/user/PinkCreeper/saved/yVkqqs Recently, over the last MONTH, Ive noticed a red flashing light on the case (Zalman Z3 Plus) I know it is means to SHOW a harddisk problem, but i just hoped it was lying. Ive had two blue screens now in the last week and Im not sure what to do. Could it be a lose cable? Could the harddrive be faulty? Which ONE? The SSD or HDD?Cases don't have lights on them to indicate hard disk problems. The HDD light indicates that the drive is being read from or written to. Your BSOD's may be unrelated. You can use BlueScreenView to retrieve recent STOP (BSOD) Errors, they would be useful to determine the problem. Quote from: BC_Programmer on March 26, 2015, 12:54:54 AM Cases don't have lights on them to indicate hard disk problems. The HDD light indicates that the drive is being read from or written to. Your BSOD's may be unrelated. You can use BlueScreenView to retrieve recent STOP (BSOD) Errors, they would be useful to determine the problem. Okay, Sorry I must have been mistaken on the red light then. here are screenshots of the BlueScreenView http://puu.sh/gQ4Jn/364347c091.png http://puu.sh/gQ4JO/ca1d5da26d.png Can anyone guide me as to what I can do? Edit: Ive also seen a recent fps drop and a few lag spikes. Start an elevated command prompt and run SFC /SCANNOW, update your AMD drivers, then see how things run from there. Quote from: BC_Programmer on March 26, 2015, 08:41:51 AM Start an elevated command prompt and run SFC /SCANNOW, update your AMD drivers, then see how things run from there. Done thank you, my AMD drivers are already up to date. Ill see how this runs and come back to you.

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I have recently built my own computer. (About November Last Year)
Parts: HTTP://nz.pcpartpicker.com/user/PinkCreeper/saved/yVkqqs

Recently, over the last MONTH, Ive noticed a red flashing light on the case (Zalman Z3 Plus)
I know it is means to SHOW a harddisk problem, but i just hoped it was lying.

Ive had two blue screens now in the last week and Im not sure what to do.

Could it be a lose cable? Could the harddrive be faulty? Which ONE? The SSD or HDD?Cases don't have lights on them to indicate hard disk problems. The HDD light indicates that the drive is being read from or written to. Your BSOD's may be unrelated.

You can use BlueScreenView to retrieve recent STOP (BSOD) Errors, they would be useful to determine the problem. Quote from: BC_Programmer on March 26, 2015, 12:54:54 AM

Cases don't have lights on them to indicate hard disk problems. The HDD light indicates that the drive is being read from or written to. Your BSOD's may be unrelated.

You can use BlueScreenView to retrieve recent STOP (BSOD) Errors, they would be useful to determine the problem.

Okay, Sorry I must have been mistaken on the red light then.

here are screenshots of the BlueScreenView
http://puu.sh/gQ4Jn/364347c091.png
http://puu.sh/gQ4JO/ca1d5da26d.png

Can anyone guide me as to what I can do?

Edit: Ive also seen a recent fps drop and a few lag spikes. Start an elevated command prompt and run SFC /SCANNOW, update your AMD drivers, then see how things run from there.
Quote from: BC_Programmer on March 26, 2015, 08:41:51 AM

Start an elevated command prompt and run SFC /SCANNOW, update your AMD drivers, then see how things run from there.

Done thank you, my AMD drivers are already up to date.

Ill see how this runs and come back to you.

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