Sometimes PC freezes when sleep, refuses to shutdown, or boot

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ahchoo

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Don't know if it's my power supply is going bad. When it sleeps, sometimes the fans would continue to run and the monitor would turn off. I'm unable to wake the monitor back up. When I shutdown, sometimes it wouldn't even shutdown, the monitor would just turn off. Holding down the power button for 4 seconds would shut down the computer.

Gigabyte P55A-UD4P v1.0 Firmware F14
Gigabyte GTX 260 Super Over Clocked
Corsair HX750W
Kingston 2GBx4 1333 DDR3
2 optical drives
1 hdd
Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme
logitech wireless keyboard/mouse usb dongle
Blackmagic Intensity Pro
Silverstone TJ05 case

also tried a new samsung 830 ssd with fresh wiindows 8 install, it would sometimes freeze at the windows logo while booting up.

My computer was built by a computer store on Feb 2010
 
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Check for a BIOS update, if no joy might just try a regular keyboard and mouse, and if that cures the problem, check for driver updates to current wireless and/or try new batteries in keyboard mouse .... have seen those things cause these problems. If no joy might try another PSU or borrow one for a bit and try that (you've got a good one in the Corsair, but sounds like about 3 years old, might be headed south....these are the three I see most often...if still not straight get back and there's other things we can try
 
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ahchoo

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I have the latest BIOS update, Gigabyte stopped updating the P55A-UD4P ages ago. I did notice the first year I had it whenever I would try to render some home videos in After Effects, the graphics card fan would spin really loud for a few minutes and it would BSOD consistently. Is 750w not enough? I'm not going to bother RMAing. As long as it's not the motherboard, then I'm fine with replacing the power supply with a more powerful one or graphics card? Haven't tried the paperclip test, but all fans spin when powered on.
 
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Try this: After about a week the Microsoft Hotfix stopped working and all the usual shutdown, sleep, boot issues returned. After a lot of messing around I tried removing my graphics card (Asus GTX660 Ti) With the card removed the problems went away, put the card back in the problems returned. Soooooo to cut a long story short, I put the Graphics Card Back in and set my Windows sound scheme to 'NO SOUNDS', the pc now shuts down, sleeps, awakens no problems. My theory is the PC shuts down and or goes into sleep mode before the Graphics card gets a chance to 'power off' leaving it in a Limbo state. It's been over a week now and the PC is still fine.
 
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