Startup Problems/Lock ups

[PauL]

Okay so my computer is fairly new, as in 3 months old. My problem started yesterday morning. I turned my computer on in the morning, as I always do, to check my email and news. About 3 mintues in my computer "freezes." My web browser locks up and I am unable to to exit out. I cannot open up task manager, and I am unable to click on anything, but I am able to move my mouse and still hear everything. I end up having to hit the power button. I go through this cycle 2 or 3 times of restarting, locking up after a couple minutes of use, restarting etc, but then it just goes away and my computer works fine.

Come this morning, I go through my normal procedure in the morning. But instead of booting into windows I get "A disk read error occurred" and it tells me to hit "Ctrl + alt + delete" to reboot, so I do. I just end up looping through this for quite awhile but it finally boots into windows.

I honostly dont know what the problem is. I have not done anything recently. I am overclocked but I even went to defualt settings and the problems still occurred. Any ideas, Im not sure even where to start. I was thinking my HDD may be failing but I dont know. That is the only piece of hardware that isnt really considered "new" Also, whenver my computer shuts off improperly, I do lose all my cookies to the sites I visit and have to relog-in.

Systems specs are in sig, and all my temps are fine.

I cant believe I wrote this much

[Trace]

Sounds like HDD to me. Back up your files now!

[PauL]

Luckly the couple times I have gotten into Windows I have been able to backup my files. I have a chkdsk running currently. I dont know, it may posibly fix the problem?

If that doesnt work, maybe a reformat would work.

[Luke122]

I'd try a chkdsk /r to see if the drive can be repaired. A diagnostic tool will tell you for sure if your hdd is failing. With the price of storage these days, maybe it's time to go new anyways.

[PauL]

I ran chkdsk and the first time I got a blue screen. Ran it again and now I am booting up fine. So far no problems but I have a feeling this is temporary. Man sometimes computers bug the hell out of me lol

[trinity]

that would be hard drive, my laptop does the same thing, luckily its under warranty, im just to lazy to call asus and have them send me a new HDD, besides i hate seagate drives and i know they will send me another one

[Oneslowz28]

Just tossing this out there. Checked for bulging caps?

[TheGreatSatan]

it does sound like a hard drive. If it was your RAM it would reboot randomly, if it was your Proc it would shutdown entirely, but your HD would cause freezes