Arrrrrg - I spoke too soon. Shortly after making that post everything
came to a screeching halt. I realized though that I had unplugged the
USB 3 hub this morning, and with it the three attached drives and card
reader. Unplugged it again and things seem to be stable again. So maybe
- the USB 3 card, hub, one on the drives or the card reader is the culprit.
On 3/16/2016 5:39 PM, Mark C wrote:
I was planning on doing that but suddenly today the PC has started to
work without issues - at least for the past 6 hours it has been fine.
I'm puzzled because I got the beeping on booting this morning but it
started being stable for longer and longer periods of time. I wonder
if something in the CMOS need time to re-charge after having been
unplugged for so long? Beats me... I did a complete backup of all date
files this afternoon figuring the end has to be near.
Mark
On 3/16/2016 12:48 PM, Paul wrote:
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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