EXTERNAL HDD DRIVE CAUSES STUTTERING AND SOUND CRACKLING

[KevinBC]

i have a 1tb external hdd drive and when i plug it in after like 10 minutes of gaming the whole laptop starts stuttering and the sound is crackling alot to the point where you cant make out what any sounds are and i dont know how to fix it ive already tried fixing the power settings and the problem is still here

intel i5 8300h @ 2.30ghz
nvidia gtx 1050
8gb ram
1920x1080 16:9
win 10
laptop: hp omen 15
hard disk: seagate freeagent go flex 1tb

[Illusion of Progress]

Are you sure the issues arise because the drive in plugged in and not due to gaming?

What happens if the drive is plugged in but you're not playing games?

What happens if you're playing games and the drive isn't plugged in (unless the game is on that drive)?

What game is is it?

Have you monitored temperatures during the occurrence?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Defrag the entire HDD.

Apply OS power options = high performance.

Edit this power profile and set the HDD timer to 0.

[KevinBC]

Bad 💀 Motha の投稿を引用：

Defrag the entire HDD.

Apply OS power options = high performance.

Edit this power profile and set the HDD timer to 0.

hdd timer is at 0 already and what do u mean os power options high performance?? im using ultimate performance if thats what you mean

[KevinBC]

Illusion of Progress の投稿を引用：

Are you sure the issues arise because the drive in plugged in and not due to gaming?

What happens if the drive is plugged in but you're not playing games?

What happens if you're playing games and the drive isn't plugged in (unless the game is on that drive)?

What game is is it?

Have you monitored temperatures during the occurrence?

1. yes when i plug it in my laptop and i open a game thats when it starts and as soon as i remove it it stops.
2. when im not gaming its not doing that so its okay when im not gaming
3. when im gamign and its not plugged in everything is normal
4. any game cod bo4 gta 5 minecraft rocket league literally anything
5. around 90 degrees :/ im not able to buy a cooling pad right now and i dont know how to keep the laptop cool without a cooling pad while gaming

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Where are folks seeing and/or getting this Ultimate power profile? Windows has never had this which tells me it came from your own creation or via 3rd party software.

[KevinBC]

Bad 💀 Motha の投稿を引用：

Where are folks seeing and/or getting this Ultimate power profile? Windows has never had this which tells me it came from your own creation or via 3rd party software.

idk but i got it and alot of other people have it search it up on yt

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well since it is a laptop, have you wiped out the OS drive since you bought it?

[KevinBC]

Bad 💀 Motha の投稿を引用：

Well since it is a laptop, have you wiped out the OS drive since you bought it?

i dont know what an os drive is
can you explain

[KevinBC]

Bad 💀 Motha の投稿を引用：

Well since it is a laptop, have you wiped out the OS drive since you bought it?

i have reseted it to factory settings a few times

[Bad 💀 Motha]

KevinBC の投稿を引用：

Bad 💀 Motha の投稿を引用：

Well since it is a laptop, have you wiped out the OS drive since you bought it?

i have reseted it to factory settings a few times

No doing it wrong.
OS drive = the drive the OS is installed to. Why does that need explaining???

Do yourself a favor, anytime you have a prebuild desktop or laptop, make a self made usb flash drive with Win10 media creation tool from MS official Win10 website. When done, reboot and enter the bios or press F11 or F12 and do a one time boot to usb. Once in the Win10 installer, click Custom. When reach the Drives Listing, click and delete each listing do Drive 0. Then click next to clean install your OS.

Any drivers you need afterwards you can download from the system makers site for your exact model of aystem.

[KevinBC]

Bad 💀 Motha の投稿を引用：

KevinBC の投稿を引用：

i have reseted it to factory settings a few times

No doing it wrong.
OS drive = the drive the OS is installed to. Why does that need explaining???

Do yourself a favor, anytime you have a prebuild desktop or laptop, make a self made usb flash drive with Win10 media creation tool from MS official Win10 website. When done, reboot and enter the bios or press F11 or F12 and do a one time boot to usb. Once in the Win10 installer, click Custom. When reach the Drives Listing, click and delete each listing do Drive 0. Then click next to clean install your OS.

Any drivers you need afterwards you can download from the system makers site for your exact model of aystem.

ok listen im not a computer expert if i try to do that ill mess up something and is it possible that the stuttering and crackling is because the hard disk is old like 5-6 yrs?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Do you have another drive to try as a test. For example, if you are running a game off of this external hdd, do you have another drive you can hookup and copy the game to, then run it off that drive and see if your PC experiences similar issues.

But again, if it's a mechanical hdd and not an ssd, you need to take the time every so often so run CHKDSK and Disk Defrag on a hdd

[Chouchers]

Go into your bios and disable turbo boost a HDD can more issues with a CPU that thermal throttle compare to SSD and heat of 90c+ issue for laptops. This can also happen it HDD it too old and getting ready failed.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It's an external drive though; so no way there is a thermal throttle issue due to drive heat, which is possible to occur when using an internal drive and having its higher temps negatively impacting your cpu and gpu temps.

Check Drive Health by using CrystalDiskInfo.

Check Drive data and free space integrity using CMD (Run as Admin) > CHKDSK /F /R

Run Disk Defrag about once every month and do an entire disk defeag.

[KevinBC]

Bad 💀 Motha の投稿を引用：

Do you have another drive to try as a test. For example, if you are running a game off of this external hdd, do you have another drive you can hookup and copy the game to, then run it off that drive and see if your PC experiences similar issues.

But again, if it's a mechanical hdd and not an ssd, you need to take the time every so often so run CHKDSK and Disk Defrag on a hdd

how do i run CHDSK??