Okay, here we go.
I bought a pre-built gaming PC about two years ago. It was fine for what I spent, but I wanted more power, so a few months ago, I purchased a new CPU and GPU. When the GPU arrived, I realized that my PSU didn't have enough wattage to handle it, so I invested in a new one of those as well.
I installed everything myself, using the Internet as my guide. I got everything up and running with no problems. Not at first.
Fast forward a few weeks. I was playing Fez (not the most graphically intensive game), and the computer died on me. It restarted instantly, and I didn't think much of it. Then, this week, I tried to play Darksiders and it crashed again. And again. So I went to the Internet again, but couldn't figure it out.
I opened my case to make sure everything was still plugged in and saw that, silly me, I'd put the PSU in upside-down, so the fan was blowing out of the bottom of the case. I put it in the right way and powered up my machine, certain that I'd solved the problem.
No dice. Now it dies on me within minutes of being booted up. Sometimes it doesn't even make it through the boot process. I've got no idea what's going on. One time I saw an error that said something went wrong due to overclocking, but I have no idea how to O.C. and I doubt it's something I could have done accidentally.
Specs:
Motherboard: GA-78LMT-USB3
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: AMD R9 270X
PSU: Corsair 750 ATX/EPS Modular
HDD: 2x Seagate Barracuda 2TB, 1x Sandisk 64GB SSD
RAM: 4x 4GB
My CPU temps are around 40C. Nothing feels hot in there. I cleaned out all the dust. I've three case fans, one blowing on the HDDs, one blowing on the mobo, and an outake fan by the mobo.
Help!
I bought a pre-built gaming PC about two years ago. It was fine for what I spent, but I wanted more power, so a few months ago, I purchased a new CPU and GPU. When the GPU arrived, I realized that my PSU didn't have enough wattage to handle it, so I invested in a new one of those as well.
I installed everything myself, using the Internet as my guide. I got everything up and running with no problems. Not at first.
Fast forward a few weeks. I was playing Fez (not the most graphically intensive game), and the computer died on me. It restarted instantly, and I didn't think much of it. Then, this week, I tried to play Darksiders and it crashed again. And again. So I went to the Internet again, but couldn't figure it out.
I opened my case to make sure everything was still plugged in and saw that, silly me, I'd put the PSU in upside-down, so the fan was blowing out of the bottom of the case. I put it in the right way and powered up my machine, certain that I'd solved the problem.
No dice. Now it dies on me within minutes of being booted up. Sometimes it doesn't even make it through the boot process. I've got no idea what's going on. One time I saw an error that said something went wrong due to overclocking, but I have no idea how to O.C. and I doubt it's something I could have done accidentally.
Specs:
Motherboard: GA-78LMT-USB3
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: AMD R9 270X
PSU: Corsair 750 ATX/EPS Modular
HDD: 2x Seagate Barracuda 2TB, 1x Sandisk 64GB SSD
RAM: 4x 4GB
My CPU temps are around 40C. Nothing feels hot in there. I cleaned out all the dust. I've three case fans, one blowing on the HDDs, one blowing on the mobo, and an outake fan by the mobo.
Help!