Hi,
Last weekend, during the hot spell, my PC turned itself off. Thinking that maybe a fan had failed I opened the case and checked - all fans were working but the PC would only stay on for a few minutes before turning off. Guessing it was the power supply I added a new one, and it worked again.
But since then I've had various boot errors, and my boot order has changed. Once the machine boots up, it often freezes, with the little blue swirly thing going round, and nothing will work till it stops. When it doesn't stop, I have to reboot it, and back to square one. It seems to have a particular problem with Outlook and Photoshop, so I now don't dare run them both at the same time.
Thinking maybe I had unseated a memory stick I did a diagnostic check to see how much memory was detected and it correctly identified 16Gb.
I had replaced a G7 880W PSU with a Corsair 850W unit - slightly lower power - but the PSU before that had only been 700W so I knew I had plenty to spare and I have added little hardware to my PC in the time since.
I also noticed that Windows app were taking a long time to load, and Windows Search Indexing is turned off - weird…
I'm not a techie by any means but I've built several PC's in the past (though not this one) so I'm not a total novice either. Everything seems seated properly as far as I can tell.
What could it be that would give this variety of symptoms, in particular the weird boot order change?
Thanks.
PC SPEC:
- Windows 10 - version 2004 (OS Build: 19041.572)
- Intel Core i7 3770K Processor 3.50 GHz
- Asus P8B75-M LX Basic Micro ATX Motherboard
- 16GB Corsair PC3-12800 1600MHz DDR3 Memory (2 x 8GB sticks), Channel # Dual, DRAM Freq 798.2 MHz,
- Samsung 860 series: 1Tb SSD (upgraded from original 250Gb SSD)
- 3 other (mechanical) hard drives - two internal, one external
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super graphics card
Last weekend, during the hot spell, my PC turned itself off. Thinking that maybe a fan had failed I opened the case and checked - all fans were working but the PC would only stay on for a few minutes before turning off. Guessing it was the power supply I added a new one, and it worked again.
But since then I've had various boot errors, and my boot order has changed. Once the machine boots up, it often freezes, with the little blue swirly thing going round, and nothing will work till it stops. When it doesn't stop, I have to reboot it, and back to square one. It seems to have a particular problem with Outlook and Photoshop, so I now don't dare run them both at the same time.
Thinking maybe I had unseated a memory stick I did a diagnostic check to see how much memory was detected and it correctly identified 16Gb.
I had replaced a G7 880W PSU with a Corsair 850W unit - slightly lower power - but the PSU before that had only been 700W so I knew I had plenty to spare and I have added little hardware to my PC in the time since.
I also noticed that Windows app were taking a long time to load, and Windows Search Indexing is turned off - weird…
I'm not a techie by any means but I've built several PC's in the past (though not this one) so I'm not a total novice either. Everything seems seated properly as far as I can tell.
What could it be that would give this variety of symptoms, in particular the weird boot order change?
Thanks.
PC SPEC:
- Windows 10 - version 2004 (OS Build: 19041.572)
- Intel Core i7 3770K Processor 3.50 GHz
- Asus P8B75-M LX Basic Micro ATX Motherboard
- 16GB Corsair PC3-12800 1600MHz DDR3 Memory (2 x 8GB sticks), Channel # Dual, DRAM Freq 798.2 MHz,
- Samsung 860 series: 1Tb SSD (upgraded from original 250Gb SSD)
- 3 other (mechanical) hard drives - two internal, one external
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super graphics card