A little about me and my computer:
I use this computer mainly for playing an online MMO (SWG), web serfing and some light work using ms office. I'm an old school person who does not shut off my system, ever, unless I really have to (problems), I do however reboot it on a daily basis. When I'm playing the game which is most of the time I'mn using the computer I usually play two copies of the game at one time, alt - tabbing between accounts and probably have the internet open to a gaming web site.
I home built my system again a little while ago from good advice I obtain from people in here. The had been running great until about three weeks ago when I rebooted it it started going through it's startup process then stopped with a black screen. It will sit there forever like that unless I do something. SOME-Times it will reboot and startup if I hit the hard reset button, other times it will take a hard shut off (switching the power supply off), and now a couple of times I've had to shut the system off, start it, it goes to the black screeen then when I hit the hard reset Button, it will start. So far.
I have the MCaffee suite installed on the system (compliments of Cox Cable) and it says there is nothing wrong and so does doing a chkdsk. So I'm not sure if this is a hardware problem or a software problem but the limited tools that I have say there is nothing wrong even though the actul system ats like it has a problem?
Any help in figuring out this problem would be greatly appreciated ( Free system checking and repair software, anything free - low cost that I could use to figure out what is wrong with this system, before something major happens and I'm without a computer to use at all.
Thanks in advance, For your help.
Rob
BTW: I meant to add that the system had been getting a lot slower recently, things that used to take only a few seconds could some times take many seconds - minutes, Error Check, Defrag & Disk Cleanup all say that there is no problem?
I use this computer mainly for playing an online MMO (SWG), web serfing and some light work using ms office. I'm an old school person who does not shut off my system, ever, unless I really have to (problems), I do however reboot it on a daily basis. When I'm playing the game which is most of the time I'mn using the computer I usually play two copies of the game at one time, alt - tabbing between accounts and probably have the internet open to a gaming web site.
I home built my system again a little while ago from good advice I obtain from people in here. The had been running great until about three weeks ago when I rebooted it it started going through it's startup process then stopped with a black screen. It will sit there forever like that unless I do something. SOME-Times it will reboot and startup if I hit the hard reset button, other times it will take a hard shut off (switching the power supply off), and now a couple of times I've had to shut the system off, start it, it goes to the black screeen then when I hit the hard reset Button, it will start. So far.
I have the MCaffee suite installed on the system (compliments of Cox Cable) and it says there is nothing wrong and so does doing a chkdsk. So I'm not sure if this is a hardware problem or a software problem but the limited tools that I have say there is nothing wrong even though the actul system ats like it has a problem?
Any help in figuring out this problem would be greatly appreciated ( Free system checking and repair software, anything free - low cost that I could use to figure out what is wrong with this system, before something major happens and I'm without a computer to use at all.
Thanks in advance, For your help.
Rob
BTW: I meant to add that the system had been getting a lot slower recently, things that used to take only a few seconds could some times take many seconds - minutes, Error Check, Defrag & Disk Cleanup all say that there is no problem?