- Aug 31, 2013
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Hello everyone. My computer has recently started exhibiting some troubling symptoms. It shuts down (immediate power loss) or will semi-reboot itself and I lose the display. When the reboot happens, all the fans immediately become really loud (or sometimes they fail to spin at all) and the computer becomes unresponsive (pressing the power button or even holding it down does not turn the computer off). I have to manually flip the switch on the back of the power supply to turn it off.
In addition, sometimes the CPU fan won't increase in RPM to compensate for game load and my CPU will run hotter than it needs to at around 70 degrees Celsius. I monitor the temperatures and none of my components have been overheating when the computers shuts off or restarts. It even does this at idle when my computer is only using around 50-60 Watts of power. I have a KIll-a-Watt meter that my computer is plugged into to measure the power usage, and my computer never goes past 250 Watts even when I'm gaming.
At first I thought my new graphics card (MSI R9 270) was bad since the problem started when I installed it and I was losing the display when the computer rebooted, so I completed an RMA and received a new one, however my computer is still doing the same thing. I have a 500 Watt Corsair 80+ Bronze Certified PSU, so I know I have plenty of power for the new graphics card. After completing some tests I discovered multiple errors on my RAM using memtest86+ and completed an RMA for those as well, but that didn't solve the problem either.
Here's the build via pcpartpicker: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3Bzqy
I built it back in January 2013 and have only purchased the graphics card for it (I was using the APU graphics before) and an SSD. Since then, I have completed a clean install of Windows 8.1 on my new SSD to rule out software problems, and the shut off / reboot problem still persists. I have scanned my hard drive for errors with SeaTools and the results came back clean.
I am thinking that the problem may be power supply related, but I have no way to test it to be sure, and I have no other spare power supplies to replace it with to see if the problem goes away. What do you all think the problem may be? Thank you for any help you can provide!
In addition, sometimes the CPU fan won't increase in RPM to compensate for game load and my CPU will run hotter than it needs to at around 70 degrees Celsius. I monitor the temperatures and none of my components have been overheating when the computers shuts off or restarts. It even does this at idle when my computer is only using around 50-60 Watts of power. I have a KIll-a-Watt meter that my computer is plugged into to measure the power usage, and my computer never goes past 250 Watts even when I'm gaming.
At first I thought my new graphics card (MSI R9 270) was bad since the problem started when I installed it and I was losing the display when the computer rebooted, so I completed an RMA and received a new one, however my computer is still doing the same thing. I have a 500 Watt Corsair 80+ Bronze Certified PSU, so I know I have plenty of power for the new graphics card. After completing some tests I discovered multiple errors on my RAM using memtest86+ and completed an RMA for those as well, but that didn't solve the problem either.
Here's the build via pcpartpicker: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3Bzqy
I built it back in January 2013 and have only purchased the graphics card for it (I was using the APU graphics before) and an SSD. Since then, I have completed a clean install of Windows 8.1 on my new SSD to rule out software problems, and the shut off / reboot problem still persists. I have scanned my hard drive for errors with SeaTools and the results came back clean.
I am thinking that the problem may be power supply related, but I have no way to test it to be sure, and I have no other spare power supplies to replace it with to see if the problem goes away. What do you all think the problem may be? Thank you for any help you can provide!
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