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Meibolite

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Hi guys, I've been having weird random shutdowns lately with my computer, but whenever I reboot the PC, I cannot choose to start in safe mode, as soon as I press any key on my keyboard, the countdown timer locks up, and I cannot do anything. I'm running Windows 7 Home 64, I have a logitect G510 keyboard, however this was happening even with my older HP keyboard that came with the PC.

Specs are AMD Phenom 2 x4 945
16 GB Ram DDR3
Asus NVIDIA GT620

Any help would be appreciated on why this is happening. Everytime I google the cause, all I find is questions about the keyboard freezing after windows has loaded, but this is in the preboot sequence, I can't even pull up the BIOS without locking up the PC
 
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Dee Kay

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Try with a different kb long enough to see if that part of the problem. If you have a PS/2 port available that would avoid any USB issues to hopefully allow you to boot to safe mode. Have you OC'ed or are you at stock speeds? Try resetting your CMOS to see if that helps. Once you get online you need to get any updated drivers for your board and GPU. Also run memtest86 to see if your ram is causing issues.
 
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Meibolite

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I've tried with different keyboards in different usb locations and it still locks up, I was finally able to get the bios up, and it was showing a random string of numbers and letters in USB drive 4, with a total of 5 items plugged in, while I only had 4 plugged in: my keyboard, mouse, microphone and an external hard drive. and I've tried to do memtest, and the standard memory diagnostics tool, neither of them allow me to do anything because the keyboard is locking up.

I'm not overclocking anything, the processor is actually locked at 3.0 GHz and since my video card is passively cooled with no fan, I never felt comfortable OCing it as I live in a rather hot area
 
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Meibolite

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Thanks for the help Dee, i'm probably just going to end up replacing this whole computer soon anyway, darn thing's nearly obsolete at 5 years old lol. But i shall try resetting the CMOS. This will teach me to buy a prebuilt consumer PC :p
 
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