Computer Freaking Out.

[jliger99]

I'm having a major problem with my system. Yesterday morning, I shut it down (or so I thought). When my wife went to use it, the signal was off for the monitor, but the power light, DVD drive light, and hard drive lights were all solidly on, as were the fans. She pushed the power button to restart the system, and it behaved... until I got home from work. I attempted to shut down the system, and once again, it half shut down. It then steadfastly refused to reboot. I had to shut the power supply off and on, at which time the computer went into half-shut down mode (power, DVD, hard drive lights and fans all on). After holding down the power button for a few seconds, the computer decided to boot.

Almost. It would sometimes boot into Vista, and then restart, and on each subsequent restart, it would reboot itself earlier and earlier in the process, getting to the point when it would reboot before ever hitting the BIOS screen. I finally removed the CMOS battery on a whim, and it restarted and worked for about 10 minutes before starting the rebooting cycle again.

I did notice that whenever the computer successfully made it into Vista, it would re-install the USB ports.

My question is: Is my motherboard dying?

My specs:

Gigabyte 965P-DS3 Rev 1.
Intel Q6700 (not overclocked)
Corsair 620 Power supply
4G Mushkin Memory
EVGA 8800GT w/ Accelero S1
2 320G SATA Hard drives
2 Hauppauge 1600 tuners

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

 

[jliger99]

...and the answer to that question is: NO!

Turns out the power supply bit the big one. I replaced it with an Antec 650, and everything is humming like a guy who knows something he shouldn't...

 

[Tsuwamono]

i have basicly the same problem but mine slowly got worse and worse.. maybe mine is also biting the big one but i dont really have the cash to go out and replace something if im not SURE its it.