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How Do You Find Intermittent Desktop PC Faults?
I'm not really a pc person, but I've had a problem with my Acer Aspire M3910 desktop that's been going on for 2 months. It comes and goes. It's the worst sort of problem because it's not always there. In Dec I started getting BSODS, pc refusing to boot, screen freezes/not responding to mouse/keyboard, turning itself off and then trying to boot many times without success.
If I leave it for some time and come back it may work for a short time, then start doing the above again. Then for some reason it seemed to fix itself with only the occasional fault, until now. The machine was unuseable for a whole day recently. I left it, then tried again and it's now been working perfectly for 3 days.
The symptoms are similar to when the SSD failed - three times, Since the old HDD was upgraded to Crucial MX500 SSD 3 years ago, the new SSDs failed twice - so I'm now on my third one. Symptoms are also similar to when the on board/motherboard graphics failed and a friend put a seperate graphics card in a PCIE slot.
Apart from that everything is original. As someone with basic pc skills is there anything I can do? Or as it's 12 years old, is it time for replacement?