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Hello,
My PC has the following components

Gigabyte 970A-UD3P
AMD-X6 FX-6300
8 gigs of Corsair XMS3 ram DDR3

Recently when I turn it on it it will try to boot up 5-6 times before it shuts off and then tries again in 5-6 min

It beeps once and gets to a bios screen (not fully loaded) before it reboots. It just says Gigabyte UEFI Dual bios at the top of the screen.

One time I saw it say something about bios being corrupted. and looked like a progress bar was going through some process but it rebooted before I could read it all.

I'm assuming there is some sort of BIOS issue clearly.

I tried removing the ram no go, removed and replaced the cmos battery (tested the old one in an appliance it and works)
 
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So I found this on youtube for my problem...

Method #1:
1. Shut your PC down (if you're reading this guide, than your PC isn't working anyways)
2. Hold the power button until the PC starts and shuts down again
3. Press the power button again, your backup BIOS should kick in now and should re-flash the main BIOS if there's anything wrong with it.

Method #2:
1. Shut your PC down
2. Hold the power AND the reset button for about 10 sec, than release.
3. Backup BIOS should kick in anytime soon now.

Method #3:
1. Short out pins 1 and 6 on the main BIOS chip (pin #1 should be marked with a red dot or whatever)
2. Tell a friend (or a relative) of yours to press the power on button
3. Remove the ghetto-like jumper you're holding between pins 1 and 6 as soon as you hear a beep.
4. Backup BIOS should kick in again and everything will (hopefully) be fine.



Tried method two and it worked .... It fixed the bios and booted up...
 
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The boot up is slow. For example I click on firefox and it took almost 10 min to open... But if I click on it now it opens right away. Its as if there is a lot of background processes or something... Don't know.

I'm doing a quick scan with windows defender and analyzing my drivers with the defrag tool. Don't anticipate finding anything....
 
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Well can't really run any scans because it keeps shutting down on its own now.. I booted it up into safe mode and tried to run microsoft safety scan. Before I get going it just says shutting down and turns off.
 
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Oh, forgot that part kkk

Live linux cd/pendrive, HBCD, UBCD, Mini Windows for pendrive, do you have any os those ? If not, can u get one with another computer ?
 
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I can use my laptop.... Ill google making a mini widows for a pendrive...

Its really weird... I was sitting downstairs and my pc turned on by itself. I'm getting close to reinstalling winodws... But I'd like to at least run scans just in case their is some sort of maleware.
 
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Don't know if i can post links here, i'm newb at the forum and did not read the rules yet, but i uploaded the Victoria 4.3 HDD test (sw that i use to my tests) to my gdrive.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B06qLKHM6IE7QlZkZW1tUW5kb2M/view?usp=sharing

He will give you some errors at start, run it as Administrator if the system has the option (7,8.1,10) and goto the Tests tab. Just hit start (blue text), and let the hdd being testes for a while. It will take some time. (Select the right drive at the first tab, right side will show all the drives )
 
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Ok.. I downloaded hdd scan fwiw and the tool said the drive i have my os on was good. It was much quicker than your tool though so I don't know if its really in depth...

For some reason it hasn't rebooted though... I ran a quick scan with windows defender and it was all good. I'm running a hdd scan with your tool on my drive with my OS.

Oh and I forgot.. The solid state drive I bought was for my laptop.. Not for my desktop my mistake :p This one is the Hitachi HDP725025GLA380
 
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Ok so looks like the scan is complete.. There is a bin file where the logs are that is the same as my hdd.

Don't know how I can read it.

Plus it just shut itself down again... Looks like this is the new problem the computer just wanting to shut itself down.
 
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No it was running on the hdd. I never even tried the jump drive yet... I'm wondering it its temperatures though... All the fans and stuff are going while running... I'm going to have to find some software that checks the temperatures and install it.
 
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Hwmonitor is a good one, easy to use and install... if the temps are good when you test them, try using another sata cable ou another hdd if you have one. Or try to use the computer with live ubuntu, just don't run the system at the actual hdd to this test.
 
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Watching the temperatures I didn't notice anything get crazy...

Processor didn't go over 36deg from what I saw. Most mother board temps were low to mid 30's and the hottest I noticed was the video card at 45deg before it rebooted... Looks like I have some updates to install now so I'm doing that and then I'm going to reboot from that thumbdrive I made on my laptop and see what happens...

After booting from that thumb drive what should I do?
 
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Don't know if using a system image from another build is a good idea. I still think is something related with your hard drive or connection to him, once it shuts down for nothing and can't boot back but reach post/bios screen.

To test this possible issue, you could use your computer running a portable system. It have to be installed at the external media.

WinToUSB should do the trick to prepare the usb stick with a bootable system.
Or use Rufus USB to prepare the pendrive with Ubuntu media, that way you can use the "ubuntu test" to run the OS without installing it.

Run the system some time and try to use the hard drive, move files here and there, see if it stop responding or something else like errors.

That way, if your hdd is the problem your computer will not shutdown or restart and you will have issues only accessing the harddrive.

Don't know if you can understand my line of thinking, please let me know if there's any doubt about the process or why to use this process.


 
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