Motherboard Problem?

[gabrielquek92]

For the last 2 months, my pc had been acting strangely. When I put a load on my pc such as playing a game, it would randomly freeze, reboot, and give me continuous short beep from the motherboard speaker. From what I have searched on Gigabyte's website, it says that the beep code means that power supply failed. But upon swapping into a known working power supply, it would still give me the same beep codes. I have had luck "fixing" the problem by clearing cmos and removing everything connected from the motherboard, but the problem had redeveloped 2 times already. Right now, I want to buy a replacement component but is unsure of which component is bad. Would it be Motherboard,  Power Supply, or something else?

PC Specs as follows:

CPU: Core i7 3770
Ram: 8GB Kingston DDR3 ram
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P75-D3
Power Supply: AcBel G550 550W
Graphics Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7750 1GB
Storage: 1TB WD Green + 2TB WD Red

[gabrielquek92]

Should this post be in the "troubleshooting" forum instead?

[airdeano]

usually, a freeze will trigger a hardware error in the error section of the OS.

before spending money on parts, prolly investigate your error reports in the admin portion of the OS.

administrative tools, error reporting. to analyze dump files, you'll need a 'translator'/reader app.

 

are your device drivers current?

BIOS/UEFI updated?

intel engine management updated?

[gabrielquek92]

Oh, i've never thought that driver updates would help with these kind of problems.

 

It's going to be annoying to update drivers right now though because the pc just "crashed" again...

 

[airdeano]

crashed or freeze? although they can be related or the same, it makes a difference on troubleshooting.

 

[gabrielquek92]

maybe should've have simplified the problem, sorry.

 

it gave me the continuous shot beeps again.

[airdeano]

then that is a hardware malfunction.

clearing the CMOS temporarily cures the ills, then i'd lean towards the mobo or PSU. knowing you'd already tried the PSU, i'd try a know 'quality' PSU.

otherwise, to me, it a mobo issue.

[gabrielquek92]

Ooh, okay. Thx for the help!