I currently have issues with my custom built computer that I built in2008, the problem started mid February when Windows 7 began to shut down out of the blue. This wasn't a hard shut down either, Windows would go through the normal "saving your systems" shutdown. I thought it was a one time thing and didn't think much of it, it then happened again a few days later. I proceeded to buy some thermal paste and removed the paste on both my CPU and GPU figuring I could have some heat issues. I ended up getting temps around 34-40c on my CPU and 54-59c on my GPU. When I did this I didn't have any shutdowns anymore and the problem seemed to go away.
However on March 31st Windows froze while I was listening to music in winamp. I restarted the PC. It worked fine for two days then froze again. I proceeded to install a dual boot with Linux Mint and Windows and was using Linux. I ended up while using Linux had some major stuttering with the sound, then it led to a freeze, I proceeded to restart the computer and ran Linux and it worked for a good 35-40 minutes. I went away and came back to find the PC had shutdown. I proceeded to turn it back on and run Linux to which I noticed as I was using it the shutdown box appeared telling me Linux was going to shutdown. I stopped it and left the PC off for the night.
Yesterday during the day I did a stress test for a few hours on the CPU, temps spiked up too about 60c but the computer didn't crash or shutdown. I also ran memtest86 overnight for about 8 hours and it did 8 passes with errors whatsoever with the memory.
I'm stuck here right now tonight because I booted back into windows today and I ended up having Windows start the shutdown process again about 15 minutes ago.
I did notice something that is odd. I went into the BIOS to check some settings, proceeded to save the settings. The computer would shutdown as usual then I noticed it would start up for 2 seconds then turn off, try to start up again for 2 seconds then turn off then finally start up a third and final time. It did this twice when I saved the BIOS settings.
I am wondering if my issue could be related to my PSU dying or to my motherboard going bad. I checked the mobo to see if any capacitors have blown and I didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
Help would be greatly appreciated
Below is my specs
Gigabtye GA-P35-DS3L Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (Conroe)
Nividia 8800GTS Video Card(512 MB)
Crucial 4GB KIt DDR2 (PC2-6400)
Corsair 650 TX Power Supply
Western Digital Sata Hard Drive(500 GB)
Western Digital Sata Hard Drive(200 GB)
Western Digital USB External Hard Drive(1 TB)
Dell 25 Inch LCD Widescreen Monitor
Dell 17 Inch LCD Monitor
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Sound Card(5.1 Surround Sound)
MSI TV Tuner Card
Logitech Wireless Keyboard & Mouse
Microsoft Windows 7 (64 Bit)
Linux Mint
However on March 31st Windows froze while I was listening to music in winamp. I restarted the PC. It worked fine for two days then froze again. I proceeded to install a dual boot with Linux Mint and Windows and was using Linux. I ended up while using Linux had some major stuttering with the sound, then it led to a freeze, I proceeded to restart the computer and ran Linux and it worked for a good 35-40 minutes. I went away and came back to find the PC had shutdown. I proceeded to turn it back on and run Linux to which I noticed as I was using it the shutdown box appeared telling me Linux was going to shutdown. I stopped it and left the PC off for the night.
Yesterday during the day I did a stress test for a few hours on the CPU, temps spiked up too about 60c but the computer didn't crash or shutdown. I also ran memtest86 overnight for about 8 hours and it did 8 passes with errors whatsoever with the memory.
I'm stuck here right now tonight because I booted back into windows today and I ended up having Windows start the shutdown process again about 15 minutes ago.
I did notice something that is odd. I went into the BIOS to check some settings, proceeded to save the settings. The computer would shutdown as usual then I noticed it would start up for 2 seconds then turn off, try to start up again for 2 seconds then turn off then finally start up a third and final time. It did this twice when I saved the BIOS settings.
I am wondering if my issue could be related to my PSU dying or to my motherboard going bad. I checked the mobo to see if any capacitors have blown and I didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
Help would be greatly appreciated
Below is my specs
Gigabtye GA-P35-DS3L Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (Conroe)
Nividia 8800GTS Video Card(512 MB)
Crucial 4GB KIt DDR2 (PC2-6400)
Corsair 650 TX Power Supply
Western Digital Sata Hard Drive(500 GB)
Western Digital Sata Hard Drive(200 GB)
Western Digital USB External Hard Drive(1 TB)
Dell 25 Inch LCD Widescreen Monitor
Dell 17 Inch LCD Monitor
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Sound Card(5.1 Surround Sound)
MSI TV Tuner Card
Logitech Wireless Keyboard & Mouse
Microsoft Windows 7 (64 Bit)
Linux Mint
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