Computer keeps crashing - keep getting dreaded "Blue Screen"

-TangleFoot-

supersaver09 wrote: »

Yes, highlighted in Yellow is "(05) Reallocated Sector Count".

That's probably a bad thing.

supersaver09

gaming_guy wrote: »

check the S.M.A.R.T. data on the hard drive as if it is over the threshold (140 i think it is on western digital drives) it could be a sign of a defective hard disk.

Can i check this within HD Tune. If so,......where?

gaming_guy

I've never used HDtune (1. Partly because i've never heard of it before and 2. I don't really use MS Windows any more) but looking at a few screenshots it should be under the health section

edit - if its highlighted in yellow, then it probably is over the threshold (which can vary between manufacturers)

supersaver09

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

a bad thing.

Hmmm, yeah it doesn't sound good.
But what does all that mean exactly (in plain English )?

-TangleFoot-

It means your HDD is dying of old age. No telling precisely when it'll go though.

enigma52

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

That's probably a bad thing.

it means it has re-mapped a bad sector, not that bad as long as there isn't a lot of them

gaming_guy

supersaver09 wrote: »

Hmmm, yeah it doesn't sound good.
But what does all that mean exactly (in plain English )?

Hard drives store data in sectors (ie. a shelf in a cupboard) and if a sector goes bad (eg. the shelf snapping in half), the drive can no longer store data on that sector (just like you wouldn't be able to store stuff on a broken shelf).

edit - and to add a bit about the remapping mentioned above, the hard drive will find a spare sector and place the data there (just like you'd move the stuff from a broken shelf to a new shelf which isn't broken).

supersaver09

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

It means your HDD is dying of old age. No telling precisely when it'll go though.

So obviously, that's the cause of the Blue Screen & clicking noise then.

-TangleFoot-

Probably the latter more than the former. Blue screens have a wide variety of causes, but the default behaviour of Windows is to restart automatically giving you little time to read the message it displays. That's when tools like WhoCrashed come in handy.

gaming_guy

supersaver09 wrote: »

....clicking noise then.

if the hard drive is making a clicking sound, then back up any data now as the drive probably won't last much longer at all