Can a harddrive I have plugged into my pc cause problems even if it's not partioned or in use?

☩♞Dalton Skylif♞☩ · Apr 27, 2023

To clarify, I have everything on an SSD right now that I bought recently, I figured my harddrive was breaking and bought a SSD, so I plugged it into my motherboard and completely reinstalled windows onto it. I also deleted everything off my HDD. The reason I thought it was messing up was because I've been crashing on Unity and Unreal engine games, so I bought the SSD. I haven't been able to find a fix, and the crashes are random when they happen. I hoped the SSD would fix it but it hasn't yet, but I still have the HDD plugged in even though it's not in use or anything. So is it possible my HDD is causing problems for my crashing? I've reinstalled windows completely and still crash, it's driving me nuts.

Oh, and something else I feel I should include as a detail is that I blue screen every now and then with an Irql not less or equal message, any help would be appreciated. I just want to play my games in peace man lol.

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☩♞Dalton Skylif�

Okay, did all of that. Another thing I've noticed so far is that my two monitors will like "reset" every now and then. They'll turn off and on like I just reconnected them.

☩♞Dalton Skylif�

Just unity and unreal engine games, it is a majority of them. I have a good setup and should be able to run them with ease. I feel like my blue screens are related to it

Dericka

Oh, I understand. May I know is it happening to all of your games or just on certain game?

☩♞Dalton Skylif�

Hello, thank you for the reply, I'll give that a shot. With any luck, it'll fix my problems.

Dericka

Oh, I understand. It seems like the issue is on the tower of your PC. If this is the case, I would recommend to let a technician check it further.

Can a harddrive I have plugged into my pc cause problems even if it's not partioned or in use?