Help me pin down the issue

Carlos Qvistgaard

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Jun 17, 2013
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Good day to you all

Currently, I am using the computer I built myself from Amazon in 2014 with the following components:

[strike]HDD: Seagate, 500gb, dead since a year now
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SSD: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB
SSD: SanDisk SD6SB1M 128GB - currently holding Windows 7
GPU: Radeon RX 470 - Used to be [strike]PNY 770 GTX 4GB but that ones dead now[/strike]
CD-ROM: TSST corp SH-224DB
CPU: INTEL CORE i5-4430 CPU @ 3.000GHz
PSU: CoolerMaster Power Supply Silent Pro M2 850W ATX 12V
MOBO: Gigabyte LGA 1150 Intel H87 HDMI SATA 6Gbps USB 3.0 Micro ATX DDR3 1600 Intel Motherboards GA-H87M-D3H
RAM: Kingston HyperX Blu 8GB (1x8 GB Module) 1600MHz
All enclosed in an Antec One computer case, with a Genius mouse and keyboard.

Pretty economic build if you ask me. Anyways, after so much enjoying, my computer randomly freezes, in a way that nothing will work and I'd have to push the case restard button. Some other times, the computer would not boot, just showing a black screen while I hear the fans spinning, then just turn of and not give any signal to my mouse (which lights up if it works correctly).

Other times, the Gigabyte logo would pop but in a blueish screen before boot, and just freeze there (this screen never shows when working correctly)

Now the funny thing is this: If I hold my case and shake it "kind of" agressively,not hitting it with anything of course, my computer will work, just like it is right now.

So far, I've tried cleaning it, removing every component but GPU and CPU and plugging them back, cleaning RAM sticks and securing all SATA connections to SSDs, but the only thing that seems to do the trick is shaking it as stated above.

Right now I am out of answers, as I've discussed this with my mother and I don't want to have the only fix to this as "shaking my computer", so any ideas we could start working from would be accepted.

Thanks for your time.
 
Solution
Sounds like a bad ground connection. Check that the hold down screws that attach the motherboard to the case are tight and that the PSU mounting screws are tight.

Also try it with the side panel off of the case. If that solves the problem you aren't getting enough air through the case so clean all the fans and their blades and replace the thermal paste on the CPU and north bridge chip.
Sounds like a bad ground connection. Check that the hold down screws that attach the motherboard to the case are tight and that the PSU mounting screws are tight.

Also try it with the side panel off of the case. If that solves the problem you aren't getting enough air through the case so clean all the fans and their blades and replace the thermal paste on the CPU and north bridge chip.
 
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