I've been getting stuck on my Gigabyte P55A-UD3R motherboard splash ever since I've used the restart function in windows. I was having FPS lag in my game and then I thought I would restart the computer properly using the windows restart function(Which I almost NEVER did before), and that's when the problem started occurring. It's very frustrating.
I suspected I had faulty RAMs so I messed around with them and at some point I think I forced them in the slots flipped, that caused some copper teeth to get scraped off, idiot I know, but I didn't realize that I'd done that until I sent it to a store and I told them directly that I probably had faulty rams(concluded from over 10 hours of googling and trying to fix it), and then he replaced the RAMs I had (2x 2gb) with a one piece 4 GB, and the PC booted properly, I shut it down using the windows function(not restart, because I didn't think of it yet), and it seemed to work well.
I brought it home, my CPU temperatures were ~55-60 C on idle, I had a fan on it working properly, a pedestal fan pointed at the computer, but still had that heat. I had my first core on 96% usage almost all the time, even on idle, then I restarted it using the restart function and boom, stuck on mobo splash screen again, and that's when I started thinking hmm, it might be the restart function. I made a thread on another forum and I did the following things:
1. I removed all devices connected except my HDMI and power cable.
2. I removed the RAM and placed in different slots.
3. I removed my HDD and added it back again later.
4. I cleared CMOS, waited an entire night, and I removed the battery, cleared CMOS, waited a long time too.
5. I kicked in the back up BIOS my motherboard has, but still stuck on the splash screen.
6. I removed my CPU heat sink, cleaned it with acetone before applying new thermal paste on, still stuck on splash.
7. Cleaned the entire computer with pressured air.
When I brought my computer back from the store where it worked there with the new RAM, as soon as I got into the windows, I noticed that my video card's drivers were non-existent. I thought no biggie, must have been the cleared CMOS and I installed it back again, shut it down, worked for a while, then it no longer worked after shutting it down later when I went to sleep.
I got really frustrated and didn't know what to do today, so I launched it for the last time and it worked and it asked me to select previous BIOS settings and I picked the last successful boot settings. I shut it down to test if the problem had gone away, but nope, same problem again.
Help, please?
P.S. I have Intel Core i5 760 2.8 GHz
