Two times in the past month, after turning on my PC the system performs slowly. Opening programs takes a bit longer than usual and animations are very slow. No specific piece of hardware appears to be under a heavy load when observing them through MSI Afterburner or Task Manager.
Following a reboot, the PC remains slow. Once the power supply is unplugged (or cycled off/on through the button on the back of the power supply), the PC returns to normal behavior with no signs of any problems. I ran a memtest which reported no problems.
I'm worried this may be a sign of my motherboard slowly dying, but unsure how to diagnose the problem. I haven't made any notable hardware changes to the PC in the past 6 months.
Specs:
CPU - i7 860 (Overclocked to 3.35 GHz)
RAM - 12 GB (4x3GB) @ 1333 MHz (2GB RamDisk for Pagefile)
GPU - MSI R7 260X
HD's - WD Velociraptor / WD Black
MB - MSI P55M-GD45
Power Supply - Corsair GS 600
Following a reboot, the PC remains slow. Once the power supply is unplugged (or cycled off/on through the button on the back of the power supply), the PC returns to normal behavior with no signs of any problems. I ran a memtest which reported no problems.
I'm worried this may be a sign of my motherboard slowly dying, but unsure how to diagnose the problem. I haven't made any notable hardware changes to the PC in the past 6 months.
Specs:
CPU - i7 860 (Overclocked to 3.35 GHz)
RAM - 12 GB (4x3GB) @ 1333 MHz (2GB RamDisk for Pagefile)
GPU - MSI R7 260X
HD's - WD Velociraptor / WD Black
MB - MSI P55M-GD45
Power Supply - Corsair GS 600