- Sep 19, 2012
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Hello,
Short story: system restarts randomly -full load/no load, tested cpu, ram, video, don't have spare psu or motherboard so i send whole system to service, they send it back with no problems found.
Cpu: i5 3470
Motherboard: Asrock H77 pro4/Mvp
Hdd: WD 1TB blue
Psu: Seasonic S12II-520
Ram: Corsair Vengence 8GB 1600 (4+4)
Case: CM Silencio 450
Video: Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 (had a Radeon HD7770 also from Saphhire)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64
Long story: first problems showed up in spring when in some games the screen would turn black or horizontal stripes and then i had to restart. Thought it was the games or the video card as it did not happen in all games.
In summer these freezes changed into restarts i said ok, it's time to send the video card in for warranty. After 12 days they tell me they changed it with a new one but i refuse it, ask the money back and buy my current video card.
The restarts continue as if nothing happened. So i send the whole system back to the service describing the problem as 3d related because that's what i thought at the moment was happening (very little time for pc you would catch me only in games). They send it back after a couple of days with bios updated - fixed.
I bring it home start a game after 5 minutes bam restart, then 2 more restarts in boot screen, i figure it's a heating problem so i shut it down and go figure, they've left one of the legs of the cpu cooler out of place. 2 day later I've installed a CM T4 cooler as the intel one was crap anyway.
After 3 weeks computer starts to restart again. I go berserk, start monitoring restarts with Aida and still no clue as to where the restarts come from no voltage irregularities no overheating anywhere, nothing. I do some prime 95, some furmark, some of both at the same time. It restarts at one point but then it works for 12 hours with no issues. Then some memtest86 from a Usb stick; 20 minutes into the first 4gb ram it restarts then does 2 passes without flaw on each of the 4 gb.
I reinstalled windows as an act of desperation, needles to say it didn't fix anything. So i send it back to service during the holidays as i was away and after 10 days, last night they said that they couldn't identify a problem so they're sending the system back.
What should i do now? Can it have to do with the usb ports that i use for my mouse and keyboard? Can it be that i use 2 output channels for sound (i use my front audio port for my headset and games while i keep that back for speakers and winamp). Should i buy a new PSU and see if it keeps restarting (i have a 30 day return policy thing)?
I don't know if it matters but I'm from Romania.
Thanks,
Shodoman
Short story: system restarts randomly -full load/no load, tested cpu, ram, video, don't have spare psu or motherboard so i send whole system to service, they send it back with no problems found.
Cpu: i5 3470
Motherboard: Asrock H77 pro4/Mvp
Hdd: WD 1TB blue
Psu: Seasonic S12II-520
Ram: Corsair Vengence 8GB 1600 (4+4)
Case: CM Silencio 450
Video: Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 (had a Radeon HD7770 also from Saphhire)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64
Long story: first problems showed up in spring when in some games the screen would turn black or horizontal stripes and then i had to restart. Thought it was the games or the video card as it did not happen in all games.
In summer these freezes changed into restarts i said ok, it's time to send the video card in for warranty. After 12 days they tell me they changed it with a new one but i refuse it, ask the money back and buy my current video card.
The restarts continue as if nothing happened. So i send the whole system back to the service describing the problem as 3d related because that's what i thought at the moment was happening (very little time for pc you would catch me only in games). They send it back after a couple of days with bios updated - fixed.
I bring it home start a game after 5 minutes bam restart, then 2 more restarts in boot screen, i figure it's a heating problem so i shut it down and go figure, they've left one of the legs of the cpu cooler out of place. 2 day later I've installed a CM T4 cooler as the intel one was crap anyway.
After 3 weeks computer starts to restart again. I go berserk, start monitoring restarts with Aida and still no clue as to where the restarts come from no voltage irregularities no overheating anywhere, nothing. I do some prime 95, some furmark, some of both at the same time. It restarts at one point but then it works for 12 hours with no issues. Then some memtest86 from a Usb stick; 20 minutes into the first 4gb ram it restarts then does 2 passes without flaw on each of the 4 gb.
I reinstalled windows as an act of desperation, needles to say it didn't fix anything. So i send it back to service during the holidays as i was away and after 10 days, last night they said that they couldn't identify a problem so they're sending the system back.
What should i do now? Can it have to do with the usb ports that i use for my mouse and keyboard? Can it be that i use 2 output channels for sound (i use my front audio port for my headset and games while i keep that back for speakers and winamp). Should i buy a new PSU and see if it keeps restarting (i have a 30 day return policy thing)?
I don't know if it matters but I'm from Romania.
Thanks,
Shodoman
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