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Weird Computer Issue Has Me Stumped

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So the topic says it all. I've been building and troubleshooting computers going on 13 years now and have never ran across an issue like this.

So As it stands right now when I try to boot up it easily takes 5 minutes where before it was easily less than a minute. When I try to play any FPS game the its as if I am playing in slow motion but when I load up SC2 or WoW the games play fine. Go to open and close system windows and there is visible lag there too. This issue has only come up today and as it stands right now Im at a loss.

I have taken the video card out and tested it in my fiance's computer and it works fine. I have tried each and every RAM module separately in my computer with the problem persisting, and the fiance's computer and they are working perfectly. Right now I am leaning towards a bad motherboard or even possibly a bad PSU.

Any insight on this issue would be greatly appreciated.

ASRock P67 Extreme4 Gen3
Intel i5 2500K
12gb Corsair Vengence RAM
Gigabyte GTX 770 OC 2Gb (less than a month old)
Windows 7 64bit
750watt PSU that is 6yrs old and I cant remember the brand without completely taking it out.
 
Oh also forgot to mention that I tested all my hard drives and the boot times were unaffected whether I had my Windows drive plugged in or my Linux drive.
 
What does the storage situation (SSDs? HDDs? Brands/models?) look like?

Is the PSU model visible (without completely removing it from the case)?

Has anything been overclocked? Is the RAM running at the motherboard-imposed stock settings?
 
tiraides said:
What does the storage situation (SSDs? HDDs? Brands/models?) look like?

Is the PSU model visible (without completely removing it from the case)?

Has anything been overclocked? Is the RAM running at the motherboard-imposed stock settings?
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PSU is not visible without completely removing it from my case as of right now. My Window's partition is running on a Seagate Hybrid SSD/HDD drive and my Linux partition is running on a standard WD Black 7200rpm HDD. Ram is running at the stock 1600mhz setting up from the motherboard imposed 1333mhz but has been running at that speed for almost 2 years now when I originally built the system.
 
When you say boot up, do you mean post or do you mean boot into the OS?

Might also want to look for any extra software or processes that look out of place (virus/malware) it happens to the best of us I promise you.
 
Kaos_Drem said:
When you say boot up, do you mean post or do you mean boot into the OS?

Might also want to look for any extra software or processes that look out of place (virus/malware) it happens to the best of us I promise you.
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It affects the motherboard while it is trying to POST and boot into OS. My normal boot time from power on to Windows or Linux being logged in was about one minute, and now it takes both upwards of 5 minutes. As for malware already triple checked that with 2 scans while Windows was loaded and a boot scan, all three were negative.
 
Is the boot order in your BIOS/UEFI set so the Seagate hybrid drive loads first?
 
At EXACTLY which point does your PC start to go slow? Is your BIOS set to do a full check of the memory or a quick check? Have you checked the Event Logs?
 
Quartz-1 said:
At EXACTLY which point does your PC start to go slow? Is your BIOS set to do a full check of the memory or a quick check? Have you checked the Event Logs?
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The system was slow from the moment I hit the power button to turn it on. Checked everything, had it set to do a quick check and full check when testing.

On the up side it looks like I have fixed the problem. Went to Fry's today and picked up a new TX750M PSU, pulled the old one out and hooked the new one up and everything is running at 100% now. I'm assuming the older PSU was just aged to the point it couldn't keep up anymore with the new GTX 770 and that is what started to cause it to finally go out in the end. Its an old UltraXPRO 750watt I won back in 2006 at a LAN during a raffle. I'm genuinely surprised it has lasted this long.
 
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