I think it's my motherboard/CPU, but it's hard to know for certain without swapping out every single other component, including the PSU. I don't have a PSU and I don't want to have to go get one, but it would be nice to be a little more sure than I am so that I can be comfortable reusing my PSU for my next build. Or is that a bad idea given that my PSU is more than 8.5 years old?
More specifically, my symptoms:
More specifically, my symptoms:
- BSOD or spontaneous restarts started a few days ago
- The computer has also had issues starting up. It will power up and then die before posting and relatively repeat that cycle in an automated fashion.
- It also started freezing up intermittently, in addition to the BSOD
- I didn't run memtest, but skeptical that it will use anything from continued posting issues after trying/swapping a reduced set of my memory modules
- Swapped out GPU, same results
- At one point in time after intermittent and repetitive automatic failed posting attempts I saw a message that it lost the bios image and recovered it from some backup set
- Note that I can eventually get my computer up and running again if I try to restart it enough, but it will eventually freeze up