Personal computing discussed
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just brew it! wrote:Yeah, cracked PCB trace on mobo is a possibility, and can cause all manner of mayhem. But it's also possible that a single flaky drive is causing I/O hangs and resulting in general misbehavior.
Does system misbehave even if game drive is disconnected? TBH if the game drive is a mechanical HDD I would be rather surprised if it survived a fall down the stairs.
just brew it! wrote:Need for an upgrade regardless aside, if the problem is one of the drives, upgrading may not fix the issue. I'd be surprised if plugging in the external was the cause.