I've been doing hardware a long time, but I've never run into this. I'm hoping someone has some insight.
My computer started freezing yesterday. I came back to it and it was just 'stuck'. Reboot, whatever, it was probably a really bad crash. Then it kept happening (3 more times that day). "Something must have updated itself. I'll go through the services etc. tomorrow."
Well this morning I tried to start it and it froze during startup. Not good. I shut down and tried again. This time it froze during the screen that says "Windows failed to start last time. Do you want to... 19 seconds"
Wow. Never had that happen before. Kinda rules out a bad driver anyway.
So something hardware is failing before windows is even loaded. Crap. I assume it's Motherboard, PSU, CPU, in that order. I can mostly rule out sound card, ram, video card, hard drives.
I recently added a GTX 480 to my system. I had a 470 for about 60 days before I pulled it and upgraded to a 480. It's been about 6 days since the upgrade, though, and this started yesterday. Maybe it's taxed my PSU to death? My rig is kind of old so I 1/2 expect something to start failing. It's working now (I'm typing on it) so it's very intermittent and I haven't found anything that triggers it, per se.
I'm just going to wait and see if I can reproduce it (or determine how often it happens) before I swap out my sound card and PSU (*cringe*) to try and eliminate some possibilities.
Any other thoughts?
Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 (775/965P Chipset)
E6400 (775/Conroe/2.13GHz Dual Core)
Thermaltake W0116RU (750W/4 12v rails)
4x2GB OCZ DDR2
EVGA GTX 480
4x1TB Green
1x80 GB SSD
2x640GB 7200.9
SoundBlaster X-Fi (PCI)
Win7 64-bit
My computer started freezing yesterday. I came back to it and it was just 'stuck'. Reboot, whatever, it was probably a really bad crash. Then it kept happening (3 more times that day). "Something must have updated itself. I'll go through the services etc. tomorrow."
Well this morning I tried to start it and it froze during startup. Not good. I shut down and tried again. This time it froze during the screen that says "Windows failed to start last time. Do you want to... 19 seconds"
Wow. Never had that happen before. Kinda rules out a bad driver anyway.
So something hardware is failing before windows is even loaded. Crap. I assume it's Motherboard, PSU, CPU, in that order. I can mostly rule out sound card, ram, video card, hard drives.
I recently added a GTX 480 to my system. I had a 470 for about 60 days before I pulled it and upgraded to a 480. It's been about 6 days since the upgrade, though, and this started yesterday. Maybe it's taxed my PSU to death? My rig is kind of old so I 1/2 expect something to start failing. It's working now (I'm typing on it) so it's very intermittent and I haven't found anything that triggers it, per se.
I'm just going to wait and see if I can reproduce it (or determine how often it happens) before I swap out my sound card and PSU (*cringe*) to try and eliminate some possibilities.
Any other thoughts?
Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 (775/965P Chipset)
E6400 (775/Conroe/2.13GHz Dual Core)
Thermaltake W0116RU (750W/4 12v rails)
4x2GB OCZ DDR2
EVGA GTX 480
4x1TB Green
1x80 GB SSD
2x640GB 7200.9
SoundBlaster X-Fi (PCI)
Win7 64-bit
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