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Ok, I just got my Power Supply back from Fortron because it was dying, so they took 2 weeks and repaired it. Now that I have it back I put my computer together started it up and everything was working fine, until a random restart. My question is can these random restarts be caused my HDD. I know it's odd but let me explain.
1. I tested my motherboard, video card, ran memtest on the computer that randomly restarts for 3 hours without a problem, and nothing shows problems.
2. My computer only seems to restart when it's subject to a lot of programs loading up at once. However, I can run Warcraft fine as long as I don't press alt+tab and open up opera and start surfing the web because it restarts and before it does so it runs ridiculously slow.
3. There are loud noises coming from my Harddrive. I thought the CPU fan was hitting one of the wires when I first started up iTunes.
4. I ran a CPU stress test for about an hour without doing anything else and that worked fine. As soon as I opened up AIM and Opera at the same time, rebooted.
5. Only a feeling but I thought I would throw it out there. I think my harddrive dying is a result of my Power Supply being bad for about a week and my computer still running.
I mean I know it seems odd and it seems like the Power Supply should and would be causing all of these events but honestly I think it's just that my Hard drive is dying on me. Could it be causing the random restarts and the ridiculously slow preformance when loading up programs. Once in the programs, my computer seem to run them the same as before.
Any help is apprieciated. If I come to the conclusion that I need a new Hard drive - I doubt Samsung has any type of Warrenty - so I'm just going to go ahead and order one (so if someone has any good deals on Hard Drive I would really like to know). Thanks in advance.
PS. Specs in Sig. I also have an 5 case fans as well as another CD Drive. The computer runs the same whether I have the case fans connected or if I don't have them connected.
1. I tested my motherboard, video card, ran memtest on the computer that randomly restarts for 3 hours without a problem, and nothing shows problems.
2. My computer only seems to restart when it's subject to a lot of programs loading up at once. However, I can run Warcraft fine as long as I don't press alt+tab and open up opera and start surfing the web because it restarts and before it does so it runs ridiculously slow.
3. There are loud noises coming from my Harddrive. I thought the CPU fan was hitting one of the wires when I first started up iTunes.
4. I ran a CPU stress test for about an hour without doing anything else and that worked fine. As soon as I opened up AIM and Opera at the same time, rebooted.
5. Only a feeling but I thought I would throw it out there. I think my harddrive dying is a result of my Power Supply being bad for about a week and my computer still running.
I mean I know it seems odd and it seems like the Power Supply should and would be causing all of these events but honestly I think it's just that my Hard drive is dying on me. Could it be causing the random restarts and the ridiculously slow preformance when loading up programs. Once in the programs, my computer seem to run them the same as before.
Any help is apprieciated. If I come to the conclusion that I need a new Hard drive - I doubt Samsung has any type of Warrenty - so I'm just going to go ahead and order one (so if someone has any good deals on Hard Drive I would really like to know). Thanks in advance.
PS. Specs in Sig. I also have an 5 case fans as well as another CD Drive. The computer runs the same whether I have the case fans connected or if I don't have them connected.