Hi Muso,

One of the first things I did was check the power supply. When this first started giving me issues a few months back I ran several stress test on the PC. I installed a new larger heat sink on the CPU and that seemed to solve the issue. I also installed a two new Samsung 2TB SSDs and removed the HHD SADA drives. So...I am about 99% sure there is no virus. I did a clean install of Windows 10 pro.

The power is pretty unpredictable here so I have had a large UPS for some time.

There are many places to buy a computer but the one I will build for 2K cost 4K to buy, more that a "tad" expensive...lol This one has run without issue for over ten years until a few months ago.

I have had a couple of my computer friends who are CCIE's take a look without finding any issues. Whatever is going on is intermittent.

I have two other desktop machines and two laptops. They are all running normally.

There are several reasons I want a new machine. One reason is that I built this one in a standard 4U rack mounted case. It only has room for one fan and is not tall enough to put a radiator cooling system in.

The machine has been cycled on and off somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 to 10 thousand times.I had given some thought to using hot swappable hard drives for backup
storage but changed my mind.

Thank you for the feedback.

Billy


Last edited by Planobilly; 11/14/20 08:16 PM.
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