Mark -
You mentioned you removed and re-seated the expansion cards. Have you
tried removing the cards one by one and attempting to boot without the
card? Sometimes a bad card will keep the machine from booting properly.
-p
On 3/16/2016 10:35 AM, Mark C wrote:
Thanks, Igor - your explanation demystifies Event Viewer. I'm not seeing
anything that seems to relate to this problem though.
About the beeps - I'm familiar with POST error codes but this beeping is
different. Sometimes - rarely - during boot up the machine will just
beep continuously. Not an orderly sequent of beeps but just a seemingly
endless series of beep-beep-beep. Sometimes it pauses and restarts.
Also, If I enter the BIOS setup screen it will start beeping in the same
manner as long as that screen is up. It stops when I exit the bios
setup. I just tried it and counted something like 25 beeps before I
stopped counting. So I assume it is some fundamental hardware issue.
Regarding event viewer - first, I am using Windows 7 home premium
edition. I looked through the "system" events under the critical and
error tabs. No critical events were recorded. There were 25 recorded
under error section and almost all were failures to start services. No
notable repetitions or consistent pattens there.
With the restore points - I just looked again at system restore and
noted that "show older restore points" was not checked. Checking that
reveals a restore point from January 2014 and one from 2013 - both times
when I did a system backup. (I usually just backup data files and don't
often do full backups of the OS and installed programs.) So, I have the
6 most recent restore points and these two older ones. The problem with
the most recent restore points is that when I booted the PC Monday
evening and it installed updates, it created a series of restore points
during the update process. So I have 6 restore points all from Monday
and all made within the time span of a few hours. Those plus the 2014
and 2013 restore points are all I have.
I'll wait for the quote on the locally built machine and also do some
research on alternatives. Today the machine is much more stable than
yesterday - I'm getting an hour or so of normal usage before the issues
kick in, and rebooting seems to start that cycle over again. So I will
limp along till I get a new machine.
One symptom I did not mention - when the machine slows down Win 7 puts
up a notice saying that the computer is running slowly and asking if I
want to disable Aero effects. I assume that simply means that Windows
notices that the system is running slowly. Is that any sort of a clue to
what could be going on?
Thanks for the detailed reply!
Mark
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