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My Win7-64 system has been running fine for over 2 1/2 years. Suddenly, it has been locking up and having other problems that I can't pin down. I would appreciate any help from the knowledgeable people on this forum.
The first issue is that the system boot, about half the time, beeps once with a longer than normal single beep, the temperature LED's stay all on and no video appears on the screen at all. The boot then seems to halt, with no disk activity, until I force a shut down with the power button, which by the way then shuts off instantly rather than the usual 4 second button hold being required. This is all happening before anything appears on the monitor - no boot up files, Gigabyte logo, nothing.
The second issue is that, on the times that I am able to successfully boot into Windows, the system will randomly lock up - with no correlation to use of a particular software item. It happens when in Firefox, when playing a Windows built-in game (backgammon), etc. The system will just freeze - no cursor movement possible, no Start Menu button, no keyboard presses - nothing works. The video is still displayed, in its frozen state.
I don't know whether this could be an issue with the power supply, the Gigabyte board, memory sticks, SSD (boot drive, along with some programs), hard drive (main drive for programs and storage), or anything else. All system fans are running and I see no unusual temperatures. Crystal Disk Info reports SSD and HD are "Good", though there are some coded entries in the error categories. CPUid reports RAM running at desired specs, set in BIOS.
I am wondering if perhaps the button CMOS battery could be dying. How does one check that?
How should I try to diagnose this?
Some system specs: EX58A-UD7, Sapphire Radeon 4850, Patriot Torx 64GB SSD, Seagate 1GB Barracuda, 6GB Mushkin RAM, Intel 920 CPU, Seasonic 650 watt (I think) PSU.
Help/ideas please. Thanks.
The first issue is that the system boot, about half the time, beeps once with a longer than normal single beep, the temperature LED's stay all on and no video appears on the screen at all. The boot then seems to halt, with no disk activity, until I force a shut down with the power button, which by the way then shuts off instantly rather than the usual 4 second button hold being required. This is all happening before anything appears on the monitor - no boot up files, Gigabyte logo, nothing.
The second issue is that, on the times that I am able to successfully boot into Windows, the system will randomly lock up - with no correlation to use of a particular software item. It happens when in Firefox, when playing a Windows built-in game (backgammon), etc. The system will just freeze - no cursor movement possible, no Start Menu button, no keyboard presses - nothing works. The video is still displayed, in its frozen state.
I don't know whether this could be an issue with the power supply, the Gigabyte board, memory sticks, SSD (boot drive, along with some programs), hard drive (main drive for programs and storage), or anything else. All system fans are running and I see no unusual temperatures. Crystal Disk Info reports SSD and HD are "Good", though there are some coded entries in the error categories. CPUid reports RAM running at desired specs, set in BIOS.
I am wondering if perhaps the button CMOS battery could be dying. How does one check that?
How should I try to diagnose this?
Some system specs: EX58A-UD7, Sapphire Radeon 4850, Patriot Torx 64GB SSD, Seagate 1GB Barracuda, 6GB Mushkin RAM, Intel 920 CPU, Seasonic 650 watt (I think) PSU.
Help/ideas please. Thanks.
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