- Sep 6, 2014
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Alright guys, I've exhausted all the ideas that I can think of to try and remedy my situation.
Here's the back story:
Back in February I purchased an AMD Radeon R9 280X video card. I previously had an MSI something in the computer. I uninstalled all drivers for the video card, swapped the Radeon in and installed everything. The computer was running great, got some really nice benchmarks with it and then about 3 weeks in the computer would abruptly shut down with no warning while running intensive applications. I had a Diablotek 600W Gold 80+ power supply. My first guess was that the power supply was not enough to power my computer. I limped the computer along being able to use it for up to an hour or two as long as I was only using it for things like Word and internet for school. I finally got the money to purchase a larger power supply, a Corsair 860 Platinum 80+. Just installed that this morning and the computer ran for about 5 minutes before again shutting down with no warning. No loud fans or sluggish GUI.
I thought that maybe something wasn't seated properly; so I took my memory out, my video card out, pulled my CMOS battery and replaced it, took the CPU heat sink off and unseated the processor, checked for bad pins and then put that back in. I then plugged everything back in and made sure everything was seated properly and connected all my cables again.
Then I went in to bios and checked temps, my CPU is running at 67-70 Celsius and my motherboard is running at about 45-50 Celsius. My case fan, GPU fan, and CPU fan are all running, and I increased them to turbo speeds in case the computer was overheating.
After all this I turned the computer on, went online to download Hardware Monitor, installed that and then after about 3 minutes the computer shut down again.
I'm at a loss and can't think of what else to do or try. I'm thinking of getting some thermal paste to try, maybe the paste that's left isn't enough or working any more?
My specs:
ASUS M5A99X EVO AMD 990X AM3+ Motherboard
AMD FD6100WMGUSBX FX-6100 Processor
Patriot PG34G1333EL Gamer 2 Desktop Memory Module - 4GB (2 of these)
Seagate 1TB Serial ATA Hard Drive
I also have the following plugged into my computer:
2.5TB external hard drive
x8 USB hub running a wireless mouse transceiver, a web cam, and a phone charger.
This was my old card: MSI R6770-MD1GD5 Radeon HD 6770 Video Card - 1GB, GDDR5
This was my old PSU: Diablotek PSDA600 DA Series 600W Power Supply
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated, I'm trying to get this thing running smoothly again so that I can work on a photoshop project and work on some of my Visual studio projects.
~Luke
Here's the back story:
Back in February I purchased an AMD Radeon R9 280X video card. I previously had an MSI something in the computer. I uninstalled all drivers for the video card, swapped the Radeon in and installed everything. The computer was running great, got some really nice benchmarks with it and then about 3 weeks in the computer would abruptly shut down with no warning while running intensive applications. I had a Diablotek 600W Gold 80+ power supply. My first guess was that the power supply was not enough to power my computer. I limped the computer along being able to use it for up to an hour or two as long as I was only using it for things like Word and internet for school. I finally got the money to purchase a larger power supply, a Corsair 860 Platinum 80+. Just installed that this morning and the computer ran for about 5 minutes before again shutting down with no warning. No loud fans or sluggish GUI.
I thought that maybe something wasn't seated properly; so I took my memory out, my video card out, pulled my CMOS battery and replaced it, took the CPU heat sink off and unseated the processor, checked for bad pins and then put that back in. I then plugged everything back in and made sure everything was seated properly and connected all my cables again.
Then I went in to bios and checked temps, my CPU is running at 67-70 Celsius and my motherboard is running at about 45-50 Celsius. My case fan, GPU fan, and CPU fan are all running, and I increased them to turbo speeds in case the computer was overheating.
After all this I turned the computer on, went online to download Hardware Monitor, installed that and then after about 3 minutes the computer shut down again.
I'm at a loss and can't think of what else to do or try. I'm thinking of getting some thermal paste to try, maybe the paste that's left isn't enough or working any more?
My specs:
ASUS M5A99X EVO AMD 990X AM3+ Motherboard
AMD FD6100WMGUSBX FX-6100 Processor
Patriot PG34G1333EL Gamer 2 Desktop Memory Module - 4GB (2 of these)
Seagate 1TB Serial ATA Hard Drive
I also have the following plugged into my computer:
2.5TB external hard drive
x8 USB hub running a wireless mouse transceiver, a web cam, and a phone charger.
This was my old card: MSI R6770-MD1GD5 Radeon HD 6770 Video Card - 1GB, GDDR5
This was my old PSU: Diablotek PSDA600 DA Series 600W Power Supply
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated, I'm trying to get this thing running smoothly again so that I can work on a photoshop project and work on some of my Visual studio projects.
~Luke
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