Hey guys.
So I recently built a new PC (and by recently I mean I've had the PC for upwards of 7-8 months now). I purchased all the parts off of Newegg and had them shipped and put them together myself. The parts are;
Phenom II X4 965 BE @ 3.4
Apevia 680 watt power supply
8 Gigs ram @ 1600 stock
Sapphire 7950 3gig boosted
Seagate 1TB HDD 7200 RPM
MSI 970A mobo
Everything has been going well for this time. There was a hitch where the GPU would randomly turn off and I would have to hard reset the computer, but that was because I found out I forgot to plug the 2nd connector into it all the way and it was coming out at random times. After that, its been good up until today.
So I was playing Max Payne 3 and everything was good, the temps were a bit high because I have no AC in my house and my load temps are around 58c-61c. The idle are around 53c. As I was playing, the computer just randomly turned off (or rather just restarted without actually powering down) and it loaded back up fine. I immediately assumed it was because of my CPU overheatting so I turned down the clock to 2.8 ghz and it was working ok for about 30 minutes then it did it again (exact same as last time) but this time, I wasn't in a game I was just on the desktop idling.
I thought it might be the heatsink and I replaced the aftermarket zalman with the stock phenom one and when I got back into windows I saw my temps go down by around 3c and 1c-2c load temps. Pretty good, but loud. Anyways while doing this and watching youtube videos (I think I was idling around 49c at the time) it did it again, but in a different way. The computer stayed on again and I thought it was going to restart but I also noticed now that the monitor shut down briefly (around 1 second) and came back on. When the picture came on the monitor my computer was still on the desktop fine and I could even hear the youtube video playing while the monitor was off. I noticed that my internet connection had cut out and when I looked at the modem, I noticed that it reset and was trying to reconnect. The power bar is a built in one that came with my desk. Its attached to the desk permanently and it currently has 3 things plugged into it; the computer, the monitor and the modem!
My question is, could it be the power BAR? I don't really7 have any other explanation how the modem could just randomly shut down and restart and my monitor turn off for half a second and come back perfectly.
So I recently built a new PC (and by recently I mean I've had the PC for upwards of 7-8 months now). I purchased all the parts off of Newegg and had them shipped and put them together myself. The parts are;
Phenom II X4 965 BE @ 3.4
Apevia 680 watt power supply
8 Gigs ram @ 1600 stock
Sapphire 7950 3gig boosted
Seagate 1TB HDD 7200 RPM
MSI 970A mobo
Everything has been going well for this time. There was a hitch where the GPU would randomly turn off and I would have to hard reset the computer, but that was because I found out I forgot to plug the 2nd connector into it all the way and it was coming out at random times. After that, its been good up until today.
So I was playing Max Payne 3 and everything was good, the temps were a bit high because I have no AC in my house and my load temps are around 58c-61c. The idle are around 53c. As I was playing, the computer just randomly turned off (or rather just restarted without actually powering down) and it loaded back up fine. I immediately assumed it was because of my CPU overheatting so I turned down the clock to 2.8 ghz and it was working ok for about 30 minutes then it did it again (exact same as last time) but this time, I wasn't in a game I was just on the desktop idling.
I thought it might be the heatsink and I replaced the aftermarket zalman with the stock phenom one and when I got back into windows I saw my temps go down by around 3c and 1c-2c load temps. Pretty good, but loud. Anyways while doing this and watching youtube videos (I think I was idling around 49c at the time) it did it again, but in a different way. The computer stayed on again and I thought it was going to restart but I also noticed now that the monitor shut down briefly (around 1 second) and came back on. When the picture came on the monitor my computer was still on the desktop fine and I could even hear the youtube video playing while the monitor was off. I noticed that my internet connection had cut out and when I looked at the modem, I noticed that it reset and was trying to reconnect. The power bar is a built in one that came with my desk. Its attached to the desk permanently and it currently has 3 things plugged into it; the computer, the monitor and the modem!
My question is, could it be the power BAR? I don't really7 have any other explanation how the modem could just randomly shut down and restart and my monitor turn off for half a second and come back perfectly.
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