I built my current PC in 2010 and according to monitoring software it's been powered up an average of 14 hours a day. It certainly hasn't had heavy duty gaming or anything intensive but none the less a lot of hours.
The PC has never been overclocked.
Going back a couple of weeks it started to crash, typically following a very minor selection of say an entry on a spreadsheet.
I changed the GPU for an alternative, older one, and at times I would get an error message confirming the Graphics driver has failed and recovered.
Since then I normally get crashes which regularly end up with a re-boot which either work ok or quite often a failure to boot.
At times, including having left the PC powered down overnight, on powering up the fans will start up etc but nothing else happens at all ie no beeps and no BIOS screen.
Leaving the PC for a few minutes it will often boot after several attempts.
I've removed all HDD's except the SSD with the OS on, with no change.
I tried a clean install of W7 32 on an alternative SSD, the only Disk present, and during the Install process after several, normal re-boots, a re-boot was attempted and nothing happened.
Tempted to give up unless there is something obvious and easy I could attempt.
Be nice to keep it going until W7 stops being updated in 2020 ?.
I need W7 for a couple of Apps.
Any thoughts.
The PC has never been overclocked.
Going back a couple of weeks it started to crash, typically following a very minor selection of say an entry on a spreadsheet.
I changed the GPU for an alternative, older one, and at times I would get an error message confirming the Graphics driver has failed and recovered.
Since then I normally get crashes which regularly end up with a re-boot which either work ok or quite often a failure to boot.
At times, including having left the PC powered down overnight, on powering up the fans will start up etc but nothing else happens at all ie no beeps and no BIOS screen.
Leaving the PC for a few minutes it will often boot after several attempts.
I've removed all HDD's except the SSD with the OS on, with no change.
I tried a clean install of W7 32 on an alternative SSD, the only Disk present, and during the Install process after several, normal re-boots, a re-boot was attempted and nothing happened.
Tempted to give up unless there is something obvious and easy I could attempt.
Be nice to keep it going until W7 stops being updated in 2020 ?.
I need W7 for a couple of Apps.
Any thoughts.
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