Good morning,
Over the past couple of days I've been getting some problems when I boot up my computer. It first happened yesterday when I booted up my machine and, instead of the single beep I'm used to, it gave me multiple beeps. Unfortunately I wasn't listening properly so I am not entirely sure whether it gave me 3 short beeps or 4 (according to the manual 3 would be VGA and 4 is hardware failure). I didn't have the monitor on at the time so I didn't see any POST messages but when I turned it on I was greeted with an option to enter the BIOS, which I did, and took a quick look around and was unable to see anything out of the ordinary. I then left the BIOS and everything booted up fine and I couldn't see any a VGA issue so I thought it was just a random event and thought nothing more of it.
Then again today, upon startup I got the standard single POST beep but it came up with the message: "CMOS checksum bad" and gave me options of F1 to enter setup and F2 to load default settings. I hit F1 and noticed my BIOS was wiped of all settings which I proceeded to re-enter, save and boot up.
I'm a bit confused as to what is going on - is there some program I can check my hardware for problems with, some diagnostics I can run to figure out what the issue is here?
This is my basic spec:
Asus Maximus Formula X38
Intel Q6600
4X2GB G-Skill PC2-6400
Gigabyte Radeon HD4870
For clarity, all components are running stock as the machine is used for work and I need the stability over the extra performance.
I'm a bit confused as to what exactly is happening as I haven't had these issues before so any guidance would be greatly appreciated.