HELP! computer freezes before booting

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CryingMustard

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I looked through the other related threads but didn't find anything that worked, so I thought I'd explain my situation. I had a computer made for me earlier in the summer. It started out working fine until about a month ago. I started randomly freezing.. usually an hour or more after it was turned on. That time got progressively shorter and shorter. It yesterday it would freeze anywhere during the boot squence and if not then just moments after windows finished loading. Today it won't get past the first screen that come up displaying my mother board. Can't get into BIOS. Can't really do anything. Hitting reset does little. Anyone have any idea what could be wrong?

What I'm working with:
DYNAPOWER USA EP-50X.C563-BX ATX12V 500W Power Supply

ASUS A8S-X Socket 939 SiS 756 ATX AMD Motherboard

MSI RX550-TD256E Radeon X550 256MB GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2.0GHz Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3200BPBOX

OCZ Value Series 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model OCZ4001024V25DC-K
 
That points right at a hardware problem. If you still have some type of warranty on the system you could retail it to the dealer or vendor that build the system for you. A few things like a defect on the board, failing cpu, or a bad power supply due to a bad capacitor can cause this type of problem.

Noticing that you have an Asus board with OCZ brand memory could also be a concern since Asus boards can see problems with that brand at times. But an audio alert with a certain set of beeps heard at first starting the system would indicate what type of hardware problem is being seen. Have you heard anything more then one defauly beep sound from the board's speaker?
 
The lack of a single beep heard points at the board itself. Anytime you first power on or reboot a system one short audio beep is heard just as the first bios screen starts to come up. Recently a friend was stuck when two Asus model boards failed to see anything come on screen when one board replaced the other.

When the vendor sent the third which was a different Asus model board the system immediately ran normally and has been that way since. I can easily suspect a bad board there.
 
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