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PC lockups, motherboard issue?

Connor Price
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For the last 3 days I've been experiencing a lock up every day, where the sound gets stuck and loops. The PC restarted itself once, but the other 2 times it just stuck until I held down the power button to shut it off. I ran a memory diagnostic and that came back fine, my graphics card and PSU are less than a year old so I'd assume (and hope) it has nothing to do with them. My motherboard and CPU are probably around 5 years old. I have had issues before with 'incorrect boot device' and disk checks and the PC just refusing to boot into the hard drive on it's own, forcing me to manually select the boot device from the bios every time. This was not the fault of the hard drive however, as I tried 2 different drives and even an SSD. I haven't had this happen for a long time, but the issues I'm having now reminded me of it, pointing me towards the motherboard being dodgy. 

 

Any ideas? Cheers. 

Gaming PC: i5 8600k @ 4.8GHz | 16GB T-Force Delta RGB @ 3200Mhz | Asus Prime Z370-A | Sapphire Radeon VII (Dead :( ), RX480 8GB | EVGA SuperNova 750 G2 | 120GB Sandisk SSD Plus, 120GB Kingston A400 | 4TB Seagate 7200RPM , 1TB WD Blue 7200RPM | Phanteks P400 | Windows 10, MacOS Catalina

Second PC: i5 3340s @ 2.8GHz | 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1333MHz | EVGA 750Ti SC | Cheap £7 250GB WD HDD | Windows 7

Laptop: Late 2009 MacBook (Core 2 Duo, 4GB Ram, 120GB SSD, 9400m, running Mojave) , Late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina (i5, 4GB Ram, 128GB SSD)

Consoles: Xbox One, PS4 Slim, PS3 slim, Xbox 360 fat still going strong after almost 10 years, Original Xbox, PS2, PS1

Phone: Realme 6, Xiaomi Mi A2, Xiaomi Redmi Note 4x, iPhone 6s (jailbroken)

Tablet: iPad Mini 2nd Gen Retina (Jailbroken)

Headphones:  Hifiman HE4xx, Phillips Fidelio X2, Status Audio CB-1,  Fiio E10k DAC, Schiit Magni 3+, Tin T2 IEM's, Astrotec S80

Keyboards:  2x Custom 60% - 1x Gateron Yellow, 1x Box Reds

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