I've just built a new rig about 2 months ago and recently its been shutting itself off, usually when I'm playing a game. At first I thought it was a nasty bit of malware so I just wiped my HDD and re-installed my operating system and it seemed to work, but then this problem occurred again, after downloading something not so trustworthy so I repeated the whole process of wiping my drive and installing the OS again only this time it didn't solve the problem. Now my computer will shut itself down whenever I try to download the first set of windows updates. I'm fairly certain my PSU is to blame, but I have no way to know for sure and would like a second opinion. Is my PSU failing? Here is the link to the parts list for my build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/WMGw7P Thank you in advance for your time.
Failing Power Supply?
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volcanoscout
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Is it shutting down or is it crashing? If it's shutting down, it's most likely a software issue. If it's crashing (i.e. no transition screens), then there are a lot more possibilities.
Have you run any tests like MemTest86, or AIDA64 Compatibility Test?
Have you run any tests like MemTest86, or AIDA64 Compatibility Test?
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You have a decent psu. If you can get another psu and wire in place of the Evga and it can be outside of the case. Then you'll be sure and RMA the defective psu.
Its shutting down, but it if there IS an update that it needs to install/configure in the shut down screen it appears as if the process is skipped and my PC shuts down. Also I haven't ran any of those tests. As for the CPU, I've very recently installed the after market CPU cooler listed in my part list so I highly doubt its my CPU overheating.
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when you restart it after it shuts down go to the bios and see what your system monitor shows in the bios it should give the cpu temp there work fast so the chip is still hot for a reading
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I was looking up the cpu voltage for that and that looks good go to Seagate and see if you can get there seatool for your drive and run it to see if the drive trying to write or read the downloads is failing you never know if the drive goed to spin up to do its work it may just be failing in some way ... its a long shot buy than its eliminated form the check list of things
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Try booting to BIOS, then just let it sit with the temp monitor on-screen and watch to see what it shows. If it shuts itself off, disconnect your HDD and ODD and try it again. If it still shuts off, then you've narrowed it down to mobo, PSU and GPU and we can go from there.
If it doesn't shut itself off immediately with the peripherals connected, let it sit for an hour or two just to make sure. If it's still running after that, then it's likely that it's a setting, driver or software issue.
When you re-installed the OS, did you clear your CMOS prior? Have you flashed your mobo BIOS at any point?
If it doesn't shut itself off immediately with the peripherals connected, let it sit for an hour or two just to make sure. If it's still running after that, then it's likely that it's a setting, driver or software issue.
When you re-installed the OS, did you clear your CMOS prior? Have you flashed your mobo BIOS at any point?
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so when it does this when you said your gaming is it on line for that too?? what can you do for a long time that don't cause it to shut down??
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so if its not the drive its looking like a network issue ?? like the lan's aer bad and failing ?? its looking like when you access the internet you shut down right??
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He can sit in the BIOS all he wants.....he still isn't loaded/stressed enough just in the BIOS for anything like that to occur....if indeed psu related but I doubt it...the 600B is fairly decent unit. and he isn't taxing his no where near how I am mine....
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true I brought that up above but it seems this downloading and using the internet starting to look fishy
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