Hello everyone, just registered since I'm now getting desperate.
Let me start by saying, I custom built this PC on a website, but it has since from the start been malfunctioning and I've been too lazy to do anything about it (stupid I know..)
So on to my issue. At any time when I launch my PC, it can either freeze or restart randomly without warning. It's mostly a random restart where I can sit and just look at my desktop and then poof, restart. And most of the time when I boot it up again it will ask if I want to run the setup for BIOS or run the default settings for it. So with that in mind I have a feeling it's a hard drive fault.
It doesn't happen when I'm doing anything in particular. I can be browsing facebook for all that matter and it will just randomly shut down and reboot. And then it happens maybe once or twice if I'm unlucky and then it stops. Understandably I'm getting very tired of this, but the issue I've had since I got my PC a little over a year ago, is that I have 8 gigs of RAM in it, but it's only using 3.99 gigs (Yes I do have 64-bit.)
I was hoping anybody would be able to assist with this issue, as I'm starting to get worried, and I would like to know if it's only a part of the computer I need to replace or if I should just save up for a new one.
My specs:
Operating System : Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
BIOS : BIOS Date: 01/03/11 14:00:53 Ver: 08.00.15
Processor : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory : 8192MB RAM (Why does this not work? Available OS Memory : 4088MB RAM)
GFX Card : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
Motherboard : P7P55 LX
Hard drive : Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 ATA Device - 465 GB ( I have two of these, also note my hard drives are getting increadibly old and have suffered from a lot of hard resets and power outages. )
Let me start by saying, I custom built this PC on a website, but it has since from the start been malfunctioning and I've been too lazy to do anything about it (stupid I know..)
So on to my issue. At any time when I launch my PC, it can either freeze or restart randomly without warning. It's mostly a random restart where I can sit and just look at my desktop and then poof, restart. And most of the time when I boot it up again it will ask if I want to run the setup for BIOS or run the default settings for it. So with that in mind I have a feeling it's a hard drive fault.
It doesn't happen when I'm doing anything in particular. I can be browsing facebook for all that matter and it will just randomly shut down and reboot. And then it happens maybe once or twice if I'm unlucky and then it stops. Understandably I'm getting very tired of this, but the issue I've had since I got my PC a little over a year ago, is that I have 8 gigs of RAM in it, but it's only using 3.99 gigs (Yes I do have 64-bit.)
I was hoping anybody would be able to assist with this issue, as I'm starting to get worried, and I would like to know if it's only a part of the computer I need to replace or if I should just save up for a new one.
My specs:
Operating System : Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
BIOS : BIOS Date: 01/03/11 14:00:53 Ver: 08.00.15
Processor : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory : 8192MB RAM (Why does this not work? Available OS Memory : 4088MB RAM)
GFX Card : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
Motherboard : P7P55 LX
Hard drive : Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 ATA Device - 465 GB ( I have two of these, also note my hard drives are getting increadibly old and have suffered from a lot of hard resets and power outages. )
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