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Having issues with backup system - need help
A few months back I upgraded to a haswell system and moved all my old parts to my backupsystem. Old parts to include motherboard, RAM, Processor, PS, 128 Gig SSDdrive. Here’s the specs…
So to make a long story short... the initial problem came when the system wouldn’t allow my RAM to run at 1600MHz, even though the RAM is rated to run at 2000MHz. I ultimately I had the RAM replaced, and I thought all was good until I then discovered/thought the CMOS battery was dead so I replaced it. About two weeks into the new battery my clock lost its time again, and again, I had to go into the BIOS and reset things, to include the clock.
- Antec P182 Case
- Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5
- Intel i7-950 (3.06gig)
- 12 Gig Corsair Dominator GT RAM
- Noctua NH-C12P SE14
- OCZ 128Gig Vertex 2 (OS)
- Western Digital 500Gig Caviar Black HD
- AMD (Sapphire) HD 6950 GPU (2gig)
- Lite-on Optical Drive
- SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium Pro
- Antec SG-850 power supply
- Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit)
Now, in addition to the PC not wanting to sleep, it also refuses to shutdown… that is I hit the power switch and the PC shuts down, and immediately starts up again. Additionally I’m now losing video – meaning when I go to wake the monitor, it won’t wake or respond unless I restart the PC. I've checked the monitor and all it good there.
So I spend about 3 hours Saturday doing a repair reinstall of the OS and all the updates and drivers and figure all is good. Wife comes home an hour later and tries using the PC only to find… once again the PC isn't responding to include no video.
At this point I’m thinking hardware issue but where?
Interestingly when this was my main rig I never had any issues with it or any of the above hardware installed. And the only difference between it then and now is the case. It was it my HAF X before, now it’s in anAntec case and used as the family PC.
Perhaps I’m too close to see the problem so suggestions would be welcomed. It's just pissing me off because I have a midterm this weekend and the last thing I need is a yaking wife nagging me about "my" (her) broken PC
Thanks.