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My PC is homebuilt, an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe MB, with an Athlon 64 X2 5400+ processor and 2 gigs of ram. Also, there's an XFX Geforce 7600 video card. It has had this exact setup since I built it, about a year ago. It has worked perfectly since then, literally zero troubles. Today, it made a some repetitive noise, though not necessarily a click, and this happened for long enough that I could process that something weird was going on before the computer turned off. I turn it back on and it gets to the BIOS screen (Del for setup, tab for Bios info or whatever) and freezes there. I cannot press delete or tab.

I reseated the RAM and checked all the important connections. I don't get any beep errors from the bios when I turn it on. What is this, and can you fix it? I don't really have other computers to test the harddrive on right now, but I will tomorrow. Would a dead hard drive cause the BIOS to not load? I don't think so, since you can obviously boot from a CD without any hard drive present, right?

+100 internets to whomever gets it right!

edit: as is inevitable whenever I post a computer question in the forums, I fixed it 5 minutes later. However, the question still stands as to what the hell happened, because I replugged in the video card and blew out some dust, turned it on and nothing happened. I rebooted and nothing happened. I rebooted and it worked. So somehow, me doing nothing made it start again. So any ideas are still definitely welcome.
 
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It happened again about an hour after I got it running. It still won't turn on.

When it was working, it said there was a corrupt file from uTorrent, and to run chkdsk on the C: drive, which I did. There weren't any issues besides the one file, which was deleted. It seemed to be working fine again until it crashed. So I guess I really do need some help... Thanks.
 
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All of the fans turn on properly, the CPU has a heatsink right next to it as well as the fan it came with over it and also a case fan directly over it. Plus, I tried turning it on when I got home from school today after a period of at least 15 hours of coolness and still nothing.
 
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Maybe something internally is wrong like in a circut or something. Very interesting... Sorry to hear your about your trouble!
 
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Well, for the time being, it's up and running again. This is very strange. I once again didn't do anything except restart it a bunch, but I think it could be the PSU. That would maybe explain why it couldn't load past the bios, because then other things would have to be powered. I just hope it's something other than a small circuit so I can at least figure out what the issue is.
 
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Almost all 'wtf' problems on PC's I've built could be traced to the PSU failing, but not in an obvious way. Try another PSU - you can pick up cheap ones for next to nothing for use to test. Just leave the new test PSU loose, connect everything, don't remove the current PSU and power it on. If everything works then it's quite obviously the PSU. Then go buy a high quality one for use as a permanent replacement.
 
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Ur hope that it "fixes itself" would probly not happen.

It probly is PS, but I would unplug and run a bare-minimum configuration for a day/2 to narrow it down.

If u had a CPU overheating event, there should be a system log msg for u to look at.
 
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Had a similar problem a few years ago with my last self built computer. It was my PS. I replaced it and got it running again. It may not be your problem, but it does happen.
 
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