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System Freezing...
I have a system running W7 Ultimate on an ASUS P5Q Pro with a quad processor. It has been completely reliable for about 3 years.
I went on vacation about a month ago, leaving the PC on and running the software that controls my lights and appliances on. I've done this several times before and never had an issue.
This time when I returned neither the keyboard or mouse would turn my monitors back on. The PC was running and the background program controlling the lights was running and I had a few email messages over the weeks of successful completions of other programs that run automatically. The activity light was showing on steady but there was no sound of any kind of activity.
The only way I could get it to respond/shut down was to hold the power button. It booted back up without error or warning and appeared to be working properly. In fact, it downloaded and installed a couple of updates. However, after about an hour when I tried to use it the monitors would not come on again. Same drill for shutting down and rebooting. This time I kept doing things over the next 45-60 minutes to keep it busy and the monitors on. Then suddenly everything just froze. I waited a long time to see if it would free back up but the only thing that happened was that the monitors eventually turned off.
So, a perfectly working PC, left unattended for a month, now regularly freezes -- no, not at the exact same times, just regularly. I don't see anything in the event log other than the entries from rebooting each time.
Does anyone have any experience with anything like this? Any suggestions?