I am having some strange problems with my PC which I built myself last year and am hoping someone might be able to tell me what's going on. When I boot up my PC, most of the time Windows 7 won't load up, it just gets to the screen where it says it's loading windows, but the Windows logo never shows up and the PC just freezes there. Then when I start up the next time it asks me if I want to start normally or do a start-up repair, if I choose to boot normally it will try again but if I do start-up repair it just hangs on "Windows is loading files".
The thing is, the PC will still turn on and work perfectly normally if I keep booting it up, just now it took me maybe 15 nerve racking attempts before I was able to get into windows normally. Fortunately I am now in the process of backing up all my important work files from the PC, the most recent stuff I haven't backed up yet, so I am ready for the worst if something within the PC is about to die.
The problem seems to be getting worse after every shut down and I think pretty soon Windows won't start at all. There are no error messages and all the hard drive diagnostic tools I've tried haven't turned up any problems. The only recent software I've installed has been Battlefield 4 and I keep my comodo firewall and avast antivirus up to date. Could Battlefield 4 somehow be causing my PC to die?
I have been overclocking slightly on the graphics card (not enough to where it should cause problems) ever since I built the PC but nothing else, everything has worked perfect since I built this PC but this issue suddenly started the day before yesterday. The PC hasn't been freezing or acting funny in any other way, all programs and games work fine.
My hardware set-up on this PC:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
ASUS P8Z77-V LK Motherboard
Intel i2500k 3.30 Ghz processor - No overclocking
16 GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
Sapphire Radeon HD7850 2GB GPU
2 X Western Digital 1TB Hard Drives (No SSD)
The thing is, the PC will still turn on and work perfectly normally if I keep booting it up, just now it took me maybe 15 nerve racking attempts before I was able to get into windows normally. Fortunately I am now in the process of backing up all my important work files from the PC, the most recent stuff I haven't backed up yet, so I am ready for the worst if something within the PC is about to die.
The problem seems to be getting worse after every shut down and I think pretty soon Windows won't start at all. There are no error messages and all the hard drive diagnostic tools I've tried haven't turned up any problems. The only recent software I've installed has been Battlefield 4 and I keep my comodo firewall and avast antivirus up to date. Could Battlefield 4 somehow be causing my PC to die?
I have been overclocking slightly on the graphics card (not enough to where it should cause problems) ever since I built the PC but nothing else, everything has worked perfect since I built this PC but this issue suddenly started the day before yesterday. The PC hasn't been freezing or acting funny in any other way, all programs and games work fine.
My hardware set-up on this PC:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
ASUS P8Z77-V LK Motherboard
Intel i2500k 3.30 Ghz processor - No overclocking
16 GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
Sapphire Radeon HD7850 2GB GPU
2 X Western Digital 1TB Hard Drives (No SSD)
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