Hi guys, I was looking to get some thoughts on a strange PC issue.
I am currently trying to diagnose/fix my girlfriend's brothers PC.
Spec - i5-2500k, MSI P67-GD65 motherboard, EVGA 500W PSU, 8GB corsair memory, a radeon 285 and some kind of sandisk 120GB SSD.
-Faults - initially he was telling me that the PC kept shutting down during light gaming, such as minecraft, or watching youtube. My initial fix was to update graphics drivers and reset the CMOS to remove the mild 4GHz overclock on the system. This seemed to work for a while.
It apparently then started BSODing all the time. I don't know under what conditions.
My initial diagnosis - after blowing all the dust out with an air duster. Was to power the PC on and see what happens, it occasionally doesn't detect the HDD and reports that there is no boot media. I tried connecting the drive to the other SATA controller, which seems to have made it more stable.
Now it starts to do some weird ****, if you let it try and boot into windows it hangs on the windows logo. To get it out of this state you have to do a hard reset holding the power button. However, it will turn itself back on again about 5 seconds later!
If you power it off during the POST it will stay off, but if it tries to load into windows it always tries to power itself back on when you turn it off.
The initial hopes are that its just the HDD being knackered and a new one and clean install of windows will fix it. Pert of me also thinks the motherboard is on its way out. Which will be a pain to replace, as they don't make Socket 1155 anymore and replacing the motherboard and CPU isn't an option financially as he is just 18 with no job or money.
Any suggestions of anything to look for when I get back in later tonight would be greatly appreciated.
I am currently trying to diagnose/fix my girlfriend's brothers PC.
Spec - i5-2500k, MSI P67-GD65 motherboard, EVGA 500W PSU, 8GB corsair memory, a radeon 285 and some kind of sandisk 120GB SSD.
-Faults - initially he was telling me that the PC kept shutting down during light gaming, such as minecraft, or watching youtube. My initial fix was to update graphics drivers and reset the CMOS to remove the mild 4GHz overclock on the system. This seemed to work for a while.
It apparently then started BSODing all the time. I don't know under what conditions.
My initial diagnosis - after blowing all the dust out with an air duster. Was to power the PC on and see what happens, it occasionally doesn't detect the HDD and reports that there is no boot media. I tried connecting the drive to the other SATA controller, which seems to have made it more stable.
Now it starts to do some weird ****, if you let it try and boot into windows it hangs on the windows logo. To get it out of this state you have to do a hard reset holding the power button. However, it will turn itself back on again about 5 seconds later!
If you power it off during the POST it will stay off, but if it tries to load into windows it always tries to power itself back on when you turn it off.
The initial hopes are that its just the HDD being knackered and a new one and clean install of windows will fix it. Pert of me also thinks the motherboard is on its way out. Which will be a pain to replace, as they don't make Socket 1155 anymore and replacing the motherboard and CPU isn't an option financially as he is just 18 with no job or money.
Any suggestions of anything to look for when I get back in later tonight would be greatly appreciated.
