I am having an issue where my PC will randomly just freeze. The screen freezes, the keyboard is completely unresponsive (including ctrl-alt-del). The mouse cursor is the spinning circle. It seems fairly random, and has happened using iTunes, Outlook, or other programs.
The one constant is that every time that it happens, I can see that my DZ68BC's skull's eyes are solid red, and the only thing that solves the problem is a RESET.
Since the skull eyes seem to indicate hard drive activity, I'm suspecting there's something going on with the hard drive subsystem, but I don't know how to begin troubleshooting.
Is there some way to identify whether this is an issue with the mobo or its associated drivers?
Or is all that fine, but it's actually a hard drive problem (seems unlikely)
Or is all that fine, but it's some Windows problem (seems most likely of all, but not sure how to rule out other components).
Here's some details:
- Recently purchased DZ68BC mobo
- Installed Win7 64-bit Home Premium
- After installing Windows, ran Intel utility to update/install all drivers. Did not update mobo BIOS.
- Installed Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver, but am NOT running any RAID
- Drive 1: Western Digital Blue Caviar SATA 6GB 500 GB (connected to SATA III header)
- Drive 2: Western Digital SATA 3GB 1TB (connected to SATA II header)
- Drive 3: Hitachi SATA 3GB 500 GB (connected to SATA II header)
- Everything seems to work fine, right up until the point it decides to instantly freeze