Jesusfrk611
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On my EVGA motherboard system that I've had for 4 years now, it has been acting up on and off for the past 6 months. Generally I can play around with it and reset something to get it working again. At first it was my main desktop I played games on. It would start freezing when playing games. I tested the memory and everything checked out ok, but it was still doing it. Swapped out the memory completely with a different set and the problem went away for awhile. I decided to upgrade my main desktop so this desktop got downgraded to HTPC duty. Threw in two 7800GTs in SLI just because I had them lying around. I mainly just watch movies on DVD, Hulu, and Netflix to my TV with it now. I've had it freeze on me a couple times and one time it wouldn't get past POST. Remove the motherboard battery and reset the BIOS and it boots up fine again. Go to today, I was watching a movie on Netflix then went to IMDB on Chrome and all of a sudden Chrome won't go to links I click on and then it starts freezing for 2 seconds every 3-4 seconds. Overall it still works, but it screwed up Chrome and even if it didn't have the lag problem it got really really slow. It was working just fine when I was watching the movie and was nice and quick. Backing up files now, but I know it's got to be the hardware that's the issue. I've done several Windows reinstalls within the past year.
Does this sound like it's time for a new motherboard or what? I have the computer insured under personal property insurance if it comes to having to replace it. I'm going to try to get as much money as I can for a complete new system. Just want a few opinions on it if I can, if for nothing else than to tell the insurance company it's the opinion of several people it's time to replace it.
Does this sound like it's time for a new motherboard or what? I have the computer insured under personal property insurance if it comes to having to replace it. I'm going to try to get as much money as I can for a complete new system. Just want a few opinions on it if I can, if for nothing else than to tell the insurance company it's the opinion of several people it's time to replace it.