Hello everyone,
I have a computer that was bought in late November 2012. It has had no issues until last night. I fired it up and started a game. After a few minutes, it shut itself off and would not immediately turn back on. I didn't smell anything and had headphones on so I didn't hear any noise. After taking a quick look at it and my UPS, I powered back up. It started, but within a few minutes, it turned off again. After poking around more, I removed the PSU and performed the paperclip test, which was successful. Attached it to an older computer and it ran fine (no load though and stopped testing after 10 min).
The next day, I put it back in the main computer and plugged in only the main components, leaving out extra drives and such. After Windows started, it ran for about two minutes and died. Tried again after a bit to see if I could check voltage. Trying to be quick, the first thing I saw was EasyTune. It showed the following:
3.3v: 3.4, 12v: 11.95
The system shut down again just as I finished reading those. I'm currently blaming the PSU as I don't see anything else wrong (no fat/leaking caps, heat, or other indications). And it's a crap PSU (you'll see). I'm asking friends to borrow one to confirm, but was hoping to see what the community thinks. Thoughts on anything else to check or if the PSU is the issue?
Here's the system specs:
INTEL I7-3770K 3.5 GHZ 8M LGA1155
GIGABYTE GA-Z77-D3H
MSI NVIDIA GTX680 2GB
4GB CORSAIR VENGEANCE 1866MHZ DDR3 (x4)
2TB SATA III 6GB/S 7200RPM (x3)
Apevia ATX-AP900W <--- bleh!
Why that PSU? No idea. The system was configured and paid for by someone else. It was a gift to me so I wasn't complaining. That person assumed I would drop in another GTX680 and a bunch of other things so hence the larger size. If you believe the PSU is the issue, I wouldn't mind a recommendation. Been too busy to keep up. Looking at some Seasonic and Corsair units. Will probably drop down to a 650w or 750w (no plans to add any hardware).
Sorry for the novel. Thanks.
I have a computer that was bought in late November 2012. It has had no issues until last night. I fired it up and started a game. After a few minutes, it shut itself off and would not immediately turn back on. I didn't smell anything and had headphones on so I didn't hear any noise. After taking a quick look at it and my UPS, I powered back up. It started, but within a few minutes, it turned off again. After poking around more, I removed the PSU and performed the paperclip test, which was successful. Attached it to an older computer and it ran fine (no load though and stopped testing after 10 min).
The next day, I put it back in the main computer and plugged in only the main components, leaving out extra drives and such. After Windows started, it ran for about two minutes and died. Tried again after a bit to see if I could check voltage. Trying to be quick, the first thing I saw was EasyTune. It showed the following:
3.3v: 3.4, 12v: 11.95
The system shut down again just as I finished reading those. I'm currently blaming the PSU as I don't see anything else wrong (no fat/leaking caps, heat, or other indications). And it's a crap PSU (you'll see). I'm asking friends to borrow one to confirm, but was hoping to see what the community thinks. Thoughts on anything else to check or if the PSU is the issue?
Here's the system specs:
INTEL I7-3770K 3.5 GHZ 8M LGA1155
GIGABYTE GA-Z77-D3H
MSI NVIDIA GTX680 2GB
4GB CORSAIR VENGEANCE 1866MHZ DDR3 (x4)
2TB SATA III 6GB/S 7200RPM (x3)
Apevia ATX-AP900W <--- bleh!
Why that PSU? No idea. The system was configured and paid for by someone else. It was a gift to me so I wasn't complaining. That person assumed I would drop in another GTX680 and a bunch of other things so hence the larger size. If you believe the PSU is the issue, I wouldn't mind a recommendation. Been too busy to keep up. Looking at some Seasonic and Corsair units. Will probably drop down to a 650w or 750w (no plans to add any hardware).
Sorry for the novel. Thanks.
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