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Does my i3 540 have a problem ?

Moonpie2

Moonpie2

Moonpie2

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I dunno whether this is anything to do with anything, but occasionally when I turn my PC on, it either gets stuck on the post screen, or takes litterally minutes to get through it.

And if it IS one of the times that I just sit patiently and wait then my PC seems sluggish and unresponsive when I'm in windows7

I decided to have a look at CPUZ to see if anything untoward was going on and I'm not sure if this is right.

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Should the multiplier and MHZ be fluctuating like that ?? :confused:
 
Its been coming on slowly.
Happened like once every 4 or 5 boot-ups a couple of months ago.
Now it seems to be 2/3 of the time on a bad day :(

Haven't put any new hardware in in about 4 months either.
And I'm guessing it's nothing to do with windows since it's the POST screen.

Did a quick google and someone mentioned disabling the USB Legacy (whatever that is) but I'll give it a try.

My BIOS has basically been on default from day 1.
Witha few tewaks here and there (eg.. boot up sequence) but no major tweakage !!
 
This was a new build like 6 months ago.
Latest drivers and everything now.

PSU is 400w possibly 450w (Just about right for the i3 and the HD5670 I should think)
Not sure what the paperclip test is tho..... I'll give it a google.
And I think I'll also open the case, and give everything a good wiggle and clean to make sure nothing's come loose.

I shall return !! :)
 
Well, I just gave everything a wiggle and cleared some dust out.
My boot-up was fast.......... so fingers crossed.
 
It's a 400W Cooler Master PSU, so I think I'm ok and haven't damaged anything with an underpowered box of crap :)

I'm gonna keep my fingers crossed about my 'wiggle' fix and keep an eye on that POST screen !!
 
Well I've done an optimized defrag, but I've set it to check for errors on the next reboot.
Other than that, I think I might need to test my memory with the ole memtest86+
 
And the winner is..................... spleenharvester !!

It was indeed an external HDD. Unplugged them (both) and haven't had a single slow POST screen since.
Gonna try them in different USB slots to see if has any effect as having unplugged HDD's kinda defeats the point of having them !!
 
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