Recent content by Travillion

I just wanted to provide an update on the situation. I was not able to do all the requested tests on my hard drives. I'm sorry--it was not out of disregard for the thoughtful advice on this forum. I tried, but HD Tune seemed to be buggy on my system and the Sea Tools tests take so long. It ran...

I'm working on the Sea Tools tests. HD Tune is not giving me much. It either does nothing or aborts tests on all my HDDs (internal and external) due to I/O errors. It does fine with my SSDs.

How do you suggest I update the internet driver? Windows, Intel, and mobo all say my drivers are up to date. Is there a specific driver or source I should look for?

Absolutely. At this point, 5 of the 6 drives are brand new (<6 months old), this one that is having problems is the oldest one. Sure, there could be something degrading these drives or other hardware problems, so I will still check them all, but I have reason to hope this drive just aged out...

Sorry for the delays. I tried HD Tune, starting on the problematic disk (Disk 6) and it ran very slowly and then stalled after it encountered some bad sectors a little more than halfway through. I decided to just move over all the contents of that external HDD to a fresh internal HDD I had and...

I'm shocked the RAM are not on the QVL. I'm a little embarrassed 😳. I relied on online part-pickers and since I thought the RAM brand was reputable and mainstream, I assumed it was cleared.

Here is the log from tuneup plus. Google Drive

Oh wow. And they all seem to be hard disk 6. That's my oldest external HDD. I just discovered some corrupt files a week or so ago that I replaced. I wonder if that drive is going bad. I just replaced two of my 4 within the last few months. Just my luck, they all seem to be going at the same...

Thanks for the welcome and the references! I've spotted a couple already that I think would be nice.

Thank you for the tips. All of these seem to be focused on the drives. Is there a reason you suspect drive errors?

I built a PC a couple of months ago, full specs can be found in my profile. I am running Win 11 Home. I keep my PC up 24/7 because it also runs a few home server programs. Anyway, this PC reboots every morning, usually between the hours of 3-6AM. I am not at the computer to see them, and there...