- Mar 1, 2004
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I built a PC for my newphew some time ago and recently it has started freezing up during POST.
Sometimes it will let me enter the BIOS but then will immediately freeze up. Most of the times it freezes at or before the asus splash screen.
Also a couple times it showed a old school looking ami bios screen instead of the normal uefi.
I've tried unhooking everything besides 1 stick of ram and the cpu using the onboard video but still it would freeze.
I've tried each of the 2 sticks of ram individually in each ram slot..still no luck.
I don't have a spare PSU to try, but I'm thinking its likely the motherboard that has went bad.
Last summer there was a lightning strike that took out the onboard NIC. He installed a PCI NIC and all was well, but I'm thinking the lightning strike weakened the board.
What do you guys think?
Specs: 2600k (not OCd) w/ stock cooler, Asus P8Z68-V LE, G.Skill DDR3 1600 2x8GB, WD Black 500GB, HIS 6870, Cooler Master silent pro 700w, Asus DVDRW, Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
Sometimes it will let me enter the BIOS but then will immediately freeze up. Most of the times it freezes at or before the asus splash screen.
Also a couple times it showed a old school looking ami bios screen instead of the normal uefi.
I've tried unhooking everything besides 1 stick of ram and the cpu using the onboard video but still it would freeze.
I've tried each of the 2 sticks of ram individually in each ram slot..still no luck.
I don't have a spare PSU to try, but I'm thinking its likely the motherboard that has went bad.
Last summer there was a lightning strike that took out the onboard NIC. He installed a PCI NIC and all was well, but I'm thinking the lightning strike weakened the board.
What do you guys think?
Specs: 2600k (not OCd) w/ stock cooler, Asus P8Z68-V LE, G.Skill DDR3 1600 2x8GB, WD Black 500GB, HIS 6870, Cooler Master silent pro 700w, Asus DVDRW, Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
