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Computer Died No Warning

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jliger99

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My machine has been working flawlessly for about three years. On Wednesday, I was playing poker and watching a video, when is shut itself off and restarted (this has never happened before). It worked again for about 10 minutes, and restarted again. I then worked for about 10 more minutes, then shut off, and would not restart. I used my son's computer and put in the POST Codes my motherboard was giving me, and found out that re-seating the memory might solve the problem. It did until Sunday morning when the PC would not turn on at all. Everything was getting power (lights, fans), but the POST Code block was not lit. I figured it might be a dead CMOS battery, so I bought another. After installing it my computer sprung back to life.

My question is: Can a dying CMOS battery cause these problems? Or am I destined to have more problems until I find the real culprit?

Overheating is not an issue. Arctic Cooling on both CPU and Video Card.

My System:
EVGA 141-BL-E757-TR X58 SLI
Intel i7 920 (not overclocked)
12 GB PC3 (not overclocked)
Radeon 7800 (not overclocked)
3 SATA Hard Drives (no RAID)
DVD Drives, keyboard, mouse, internal sound...
 
Not likely to be the battery; it'd just bitch at you about lost settings if that were the case. I'd reseat the processor, RAM, and all connectors -- over the course of 3 years, they can easily walk their way out of the sweet spot. If, after that, nothing goes wrong for another 3 years, you're good. Otherwise, the most likely culprits are a failing power supply or motherboard. If the power supply is marginal, accumulated crap could be causing it to overheat; try hitting it with canned air. That might give it some new life, but I'd still replace the PSU if that did the trick.
 
Quick update: When I turned the machine on this morning, it could not locate the hard drives during POST. After restarting, it worked fine.

*sigh*
 
Can you test your RAM, GPU, PSU, and HDDs in another PC? That'll rule those parts as being the issue.
 
Well, this morning when I turned it on, it got to Windows start screen, and restarted. It will now only power on for about three seconds, and then restart. Over, and over, and over...
 
Sounds like the motherboard is gone, to me. Try a CMOS reset, test another PSU, and then call time of death.
 
Yea i would defiantly check another PSU first as in my experience that has been the cause of many similar problems
 
New power supply did the trick!

I would like to thank everyone who took the time to offer suggestions.

I'M BACK!!!
 
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