Hello
Off with the most important thing, these are the fundamental specs of the hardware I'm running:
MOBO: Asus Z-97K
CPU: Intel Core i7 4790K (@4700MHz)
RAM: 4x8GB Kingston HyperX Fury @1866MHz (OC'ed from stock 1600MHz)
GPU: Asus Turbo GTX 1060 6GB
PSU: Corsair CX850M
Main Drive: SB-ROCKET-1TB (NVme)
Other drives: 2x500GB Western Digital Green HDD (internal) and one external Maxtor 4TB HDD.
This is a PC I put together about 6 years ago and has been serving me properly ever since. However about 1 year ago I started to notice that the PC at times would completely lock up without providing any BSOD. But a reboot solved always solved things, and things went smoothly for the following months. It's just about two months ago that things started getting bad to say the least. The PC started relentlessly locking up whenever I did something even remotely demanding on the hardware, whether it is opening the file explorer and browsing a bit, browsing the web or playing a game. Then all of sudden the issue faded again and for a few weeks it was fine. But tonight it started again.
In detail, while in Windows, as long as I'm idling (CPU usage <5%) nothing really happens and the PC is stable, and so is it when it's suspended. But whenever I start any activity, irregularly, the PC will all of sudden lock up and become unresponsive, unable to reboot on its own. Sometimes the motherboard speaker beeps at the same time of the freeze, but the beep itself freezes and just continues forever until I force reboot.
The weirdest part of all of this is that if I try to immediately reboot, the PC will start freezing faster and faster, during Windows login, then during Windows boot, and eventually it will just start cycling between on and off, not even making it to the BIOS splash screen. The constant crashes even managed to corrupt my Razer Synapse install, it seems.
I searched up the Asus MOBO acoustic signals and there is nothing anomalous. The PC posts normally and beeps once at each boot.
What's weird though is that about a month ago, whenever I start up the PC after power depletion (shutting down the PSU switch, so that PC remains without power) the PC will always bring me to the American Megatrends splash screen and tell me to reapply BIOS settings.
Things I tried:
1: Checking temps. Nothing anomalous here. CPU during boot never surpassed 75°C and idles in the 40s. So it can't be temperature
2: Booting without overclock. I have specifically a profile with absolutely no overclock applied, saved in the BIOS, with even Turbo Boost disabled to save power. But as soon as I tried it, and booted to Windows, the PC just froze brutally like before, beeping endlessly until I force restarted it.
3: Cleaning the PC. No effect whatsoever. I unplugged everything and removed as much dust as I could. But it froze even after the cleaning.
This problem makes the PC completely unusable for anything and I'm out of ideas. I would greatly appreciate any help or suggestions, if I'm doing something wrong. I can provide more informations if required.
Thanks for the help.
Off with the most important thing, these are the fundamental specs of the hardware I'm running:
MOBO: Asus Z-97K
CPU: Intel Core i7 4790K (@4700MHz)
RAM: 4x8GB Kingston HyperX Fury @1866MHz (OC'ed from stock 1600MHz)
GPU: Asus Turbo GTX 1060 6GB
PSU: Corsair CX850M
Main Drive: SB-ROCKET-1TB (NVme)
Other drives: 2x500GB Western Digital Green HDD (internal) and one external Maxtor 4TB HDD.
This is a PC I put together about 6 years ago and has been serving me properly ever since. However about 1 year ago I started to notice that the PC at times would completely lock up without providing any BSOD. But a reboot solved always solved things, and things went smoothly for the following months. It's just about two months ago that things started getting bad to say the least. The PC started relentlessly locking up whenever I did something even remotely demanding on the hardware, whether it is opening the file explorer and browsing a bit, browsing the web or playing a game. Then all of sudden the issue faded again and for a few weeks it was fine. But tonight it started again.
In detail, while in Windows, as long as I'm idling (CPU usage <5%) nothing really happens and the PC is stable, and so is it when it's suspended. But whenever I start any activity, irregularly, the PC will all of sudden lock up and become unresponsive, unable to reboot on its own. Sometimes the motherboard speaker beeps at the same time of the freeze, but the beep itself freezes and just continues forever until I force reboot.
The weirdest part of all of this is that if I try to immediately reboot, the PC will start freezing faster and faster, during Windows login, then during Windows boot, and eventually it will just start cycling between on and off, not even making it to the BIOS splash screen. The constant crashes even managed to corrupt my Razer Synapse install, it seems.
I searched up the Asus MOBO acoustic signals and there is nothing anomalous. The PC posts normally and beeps once at each boot.
What's weird though is that about a month ago, whenever I start up the PC after power depletion (shutting down the PSU switch, so that PC remains without power) the PC will always bring me to the American Megatrends splash screen and tell me to reapply BIOS settings.
Things I tried:
1: Checking temps. Nothing anomalous here. CPU during boot never surpassed 75°C and idles in the 40s. So it can't be temperature
2: Booting without overclock. I have specifically a profile with absolutely no overclock applied, saved in the BIOS, with even Turbo Boost disabled to save power. But as soon as I tried it, and booted to Windows, the PC just froze brutally like before, beeping endlessly until I force restarted it.
3: Cleaning the PC. No effect whatsoever. I unplugged everything and removed as much dust as I could. But it froze even after the cleaning.
This problem makes the PC completely unusable for anything and I'm out of ideas. I would greatly appreciate any help or suggestions, if I'm doing something wrong. I can provide more informations if required.
Thanks for the help.