Odd Crashes

SpaghettiOs · 14 Nov 2010 at 12:02

Hi all,

Just got back from uni for a weekend and been having some trouble with desktop doing a variety of odd crashes. It will occasionally not POST at all. Sometimes it boots up and runs fine, and will then blue screen and restart. This is usually followed by a failed POST.

Sometimes it gets to the Windows load screen and freezes there. Just today it has frozen a couple of times accompanied by a repetitive system beep, and not a POST code I recognize. Just a constant series of short beeps.

Any ideas what it could be? Temps are fine by the way.

The random variation in these crashes leaves me stumped.

Cheers,
James

EsaT · 14 Nov 2010 at 14:10

What PSU?
If PC is that of your signature and PSU is from same time and cheaper model I would suspect failing crap capacitors.

SpaghettiOs · 14 Nov 2010 at 14:12

PSU is a Corsair HX520. I did think about that, but I thought they were meant to be pretty solid PSUs. Any tests I could do?

EsaT · 14 Nov 2010 at 19:15

That's good PSU with quality components.

You might want to try another graphics card, I almost forgot that Nvidia had design flaw in 8000-serie card manufacturing which causes break up of soldering under ICs.