First of all, hello! 
My 1st post here 
I have a problem with my PC's boot time and possible a couple of other things which I am not able to see...
Something very strange happened while I was playing Paladins - Champions of the Realm. I wanted to share the screen to my other monitor during the game (duplicate). My monitors have different resolutions, so what happened is - the resolution of my main monitor was reduced to match the resolution of the second one. The computer froze at this moment and there was nothing I could do, so I decided to restart it.
Booting took about 3 minutes and ever since the booting time takes at least a whole minute. Before this happened, it took 15 seconds at most to boot. It's been about two months now and nothing changed besides the red light on the front panel of my PC case which is now constantly on.
My GPU is Nvidia Geforce GTX 660. So far, I haven't seen any drop in performance when it comes to games. It works perfectly - no lag, no glitches both in the new games and old (I'm actually quite impressed with the performance).
Next thing that came to my mind was HDD units. I used HDD Sentinel to check them and both show 100% health. One of them has "Problems occurred between the communication of the disk and the host 568 times." status, which apparently isn't something to be concerned about ("requires no action"). Another has "The hard disk status is PERFECT. Problematic or weak sectors were not found and there are no spin up or data transfer errors. " Both on 28C-29C.
The only component that I have changed recently was my PSU (to tell the truth, I can't remember if this was before the thing happened or after). My PC shut down on its own (I was able to turn it on and boot it after, just to check) and I immediately knew where to look. I took apart my relatively old Chieftec PSU and the smell told me everything. It was ready to go. I immediately got a new one, to avoid the risk of damaging something else.
My MoBo has a surge-protection so I doubt the PSU could hurt anything else, although PSU was theoretically still functional and hadn't died yet.
Thank you very much for your time
My 1st post here I have a problem with my PC's boot time and possible a couple of other things which I am not able to see...
Something very strange happened while I was playing Paladins - Champions of the Realm. I wanted to share the screen to my other monitor during the game (duplicate). My monitors have different resolutions, so what happened is - the resolution of my main monitor was reduced to match the resolution of the second one. The computer froze at this moment and there was nothing I could do, so I decided to restart it.
Booting took about 3 minutes and ever since the booting time takes at least a whole minute. Before this happened, it took 15 seconds at most to boot. It's been about two months now and nothing changed besides the red light on the front panel of my PC case which is now constantly on.
My GPU is Nvidia Geforce GTX 660. So far, I haven't seen any drop in performance when it comes to games. It works perfectly - no lag, no glitches both in the new games and old (I'm actually quite impressed with the performance).
Next thing that came to my mind was HDD units. I used HDD Sentinel to check them and both show 100% health. One of them has "Problems occurred between the communication of the disk and the host 568 times." status, which apparently isn't something to be concerned about ("requires no action"). Another has "The hard disk status is PERFECT. Problematic or weak sectors were not found and there are no spin up or data transfer errors. " Both on 28C-29C.
The only component that I have changed recently was my PSU (to tell the truth, I can't remember if this was before the thing happened or after). My PC shut down on its own (I was able to turn it on and boot it after, just to check) and I immediately knew where to look. I took apart my relatively old Chieftec PSU and the smell told me everything. It was ready to go. I immediately got a new one, to avoid the risk of damaging something else.
My MoBo has a surge-protection so I doubt the PSU could hurt anything else, although PSU was theoretically still functional and hadn't died yet.
Thank you very much for your time
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