So yeah.
Over the past few months, my motherboard has started beeping.
Normally, nothing happens.
However, if playing a game, the game will freeze. Most of the time it's the whole game. The sound that was triggered during the beep will play until the freeze is finished. Usually lasts about two minutes.
Once, it was only the sound that froze. It beeped, all sounds refused to queue, and sounds started playing properly when the motherboard beeped again.
And finally, just twenty minutes ago, it beeped again. It had been doing the freezing thing A LOT today. In fact, that sound freeze happened an hour or two ago. In Skyrim. Same game I was playing just twenty minutes ago when it beeped, and I recognized that loop that happened immediately. I haven't heard that sound since 2008.
And then it bluescreened.
Damn.
So, thoughts?
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-Specs-
Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit)
CPU: AMD Phenom II 955 X4
RAM: 4GB ADATA 1333
MOBO: MSI 760gm-p34 FX
GPU: MSi Nvidia GTX 970 4GB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB
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Edit: To clarify, there is one beep, then the game freezes for two minutes. There is no beep when it unfreezes. If the sound freezes, it is a beep, then sound stops, then a beep when the sound comes back.
It beeped once before the bluescreen, then the sound looped for about three seconds, then it bluescreened. When rebooting, it beeped again while typing in my password. It took forever to get past to "Welcome" screen.
I am really having trouble deciding whether this is a RAM or HDD issue.
Also, added the HDD in the edit.
Over the past few months, my motherboard has started beeping.
Normally, nothing happens.
However, if playing a game, the game will freeze. Most of the time it's the whole game. The sound that was triggered during the beep will play until the freeze is finished. Usually lasts about two minutes.
Once, it was only the sound that froze. It beeped, all sounds refused to queue, and sounds started playing properly when the motherboard beeped again.
And finally, just twenty minutes ago, it beeped again. It had been doing the freezing thing A LOT today. In fact, that sound freeze happened an hour or two ago. In Skyrim. Same game I was playing just twenty minutes ago when it beeped, and I recognized that loop that happened immediately. I haven't heard that sound since 2008.
And then it bluescreened.
Damn.
So, thoughts?
-----------------------------
-Specs-
Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit)
CPU: AMD Phenom II 955 X4
RAM: 4GB ADATA 1333
MOBO: MSI 760gm-p34 FX
GPU: MSi Nvidia GTX 970 4GB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB
-----------------------------
Edit: To clarify, there is one beep, then the game freezes for two minutes. There is no beep when it unfreezes. If the sound freezes, it is a beep, then sound stops, then a beep when the sound comes back.
It beeped once before the bluescreen, then the sound looped for about three seconds, then it bluescreened. When rebooting, it beeped again while typing in my password. It took forever to get past to "Welcome" screen.
I am really having trouble deciding whether this is a RAM or HDD issue.
Also, added the HDD in the edit.