Hello folks,
I had an unsettling thing just happen to me this morning. I have a gaming rig that's about a year and a half old. I will simply describe the problem and see if anyone can nail down what happened:
PC was powered up normally, running Windows 7 Home Premium, and I was online. No apparent recent symptoms of any type of performance issue or hardware failure.
The PC, all by itself, closed out the internet, turned off all programs, logged off, shut itself down, then restarted. When it got to the restart point, there was a SINGLE beep, the motherboard VRAM LED light lights up momentarily in red. It gets the point where the system is about to detect Windows on my hard drive and load it so I can get to desktop, but that's where it stops.
A SINGLE beep, then a black screen and cursor, it will not load Windows, and I cannot make it to desktop.
The machine IS powered, and all the fans and LED lights are functioning normally, so the machine is getting power, apparently normally.
PLEASE tell me this is something simple like the BIOS need to be uptated, or the CMOS battery or something like that.
HELP!!!! Thanks in advance.
I had an unsettling thing just happen to me this morning. I have a gaming rig that's about a year and a half old. I will simply describe the problem and see if anyone can nail down what happened:
PC was powered up normally, running Windows 7 Home Premium, and I was online. No apparent recent symptoms of any type of performance issue or hardware failure.
The PC, all by itself, closed out the internet, turned off all programs, logged off, shut itself down, then restarted. When it got to the restart point, there was a SINGLE beep, the motherboard VRAM LED light lights up momentarily in red. It gets the point where the system is about to detect Windows on my hard drive and load it so I can get to desktop, but that's where it stops.
A SINGLE beep, then a black screen and cursor, it will not load Windows, and I cannot make it to desktop.
The machine IS powered, and all the fans and LED lights are functioning normally, so the machine is getting power, apparently normally.
PLEASE tell me this is something simple like the BIOS need to be uptated, or the CMOS battery or something like that.
HELP!!!! Thanks in advance.