I have an Acer Aspire V 15 V5-591G-70s6
It has an i7-6700HQ 2.6 GHz, 16GB DDR4 ram, Nvidia GTX 950m, and 2 drives: 128GB SSD that has the OS installed on it and 1TB HDD that just has other things like programs and games.
A while back, the HDD stopped working for a couple days. It just stopped appearing in BIOS and windows explorer and i thought it had just died (even though i could still hear it running). I figured the problem was just with the HDD. I installed a new chipset driver and updates BIOS, and a couple other things including physically reseating it, but it didn't immediately fix anything. After a couple days, though, it just started working again. It worked fine for another month or so.
Then I noticed that my computer kept hanging. Particularly while playing video games, but it would also happen during any other use as well. The computer would just freeze for 4 or so seconds, I could hear my HDD revving up, and then it would all catch up (meaning that if I was typing something, all of it would be immediately typed, and if I was playing a game, it would immediately have my character running all over the place and doing all the things I had been clicking while it was hanging). That proceeded for another couple months—it was annoying but I could live with it.
But, just recently, my computer BSODed (not the first time, but they were infrequent enough that I wasn't too concerned), but this time it said "No Bootable Device" when I restarted. I restarted a few times, and I was trying to get into BIOS but it went to that message too quick. I kept restarting and after maybe 7 or so tries, it worked and I could get in. Then it completely froze (which is quite unusual for this laptop), and I had to hard reset. A few more iterations of that and I got into my OS proper. I backed up anything important that hadn't been backed up already, and now it seems to be working again, but I'm nervous.
Now i'm not sure what to do. I though it was simply my HDD failing, and I had already backed everything up there, waiting for the fated day where I would simply replace my HDD. But now my computer is having troubles booting, so the OS/SSD seems to also be compromised? I don't know what sort of diagnostics I can do to figure out where the problem lies. I have a sneaking feeling that it might be a motherboard issue, which would be most unfortunate, but I really don't know how to properly diagnose the root of my computer's issues.
Any help would be appreciated
It has an i7-6700HQ 2.6 GHz, 16GB DDR4 ram, Nvidia GTX 950m, and 2 drives: 128GB SSD that has the OS installed on it and 1TB HDD that just has other things like programs and games.
A while back, the HDD stopped working for a couple days. It just stopped appearing in BIOS and windows explorer and i thought it had just died (even though i could still hear it running). I figured the problem was just with the HDD. I installed a new chipset driver and updates BIOS, and a couple other things including physically reseating it, but it didn't immediately fix anything. After a couple days, though, it just started working again. It worked fine for another month or so.
Then I noticed that my computer kept hanging. Particularly while playing video games, but it would also happen during any other use as well. The computer would just freeze for 4 or so seconds, I could hear my HDD revving up, and then it would all catch up (meaning that if I was typing something, all of it would be immediately typed, and if I was playing a game, it would immediately have my character running all over the place and doing all the things I had been clicking while it was hanging). That proceeded for another couple months—it was annoying but I could live with it.
But, just recently, my computer BSODed (not the first time, but they were infrequent enough that I wasn't too concerned), but this time it said "No Bootable Device" when I restarted. I restarted a few times, and I was trying to get into BIOS but it went to that message too quick. I kept restarting and after maybe 7 or so tries, it worked and I could get in. Then it completely froze (which is quite unusual for this laptop), and I had to hard reset. A few more iterations of that and I got into my OS proper. I backed up anything important that hadn't been backed up already, and now it seems to be working again, but I'm nervous.
Now i'm not sure what to do. I though it was simply my HDD failing, and I had already backed everything up there, waiting for the fated day where I would simply replace my HDD. But now my computer is having troubles booting, so the OS/SSD seems to also be compromised? I don't know what sort of diagnostics I can do to figure out where the problem lies. I have a sneaking feeling that it might be a motherboard issue, which would be most unfortunate, but I really don't know how to properly diagnose the root of my computer's issues.
Any help would be appreciated
