Not sure whats gone wrong

Jacksaris

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Hi
I have had my rig for almost a year now.

Recently i have been playing Overwatch and Total War: Warhammer.

While i was playing overwatch one night my PC suddenly turns off. It doesnt shut down, it turns off like my house had just had a black out. My screen goes to power saving so i know i we havent had a power cut. I go to turn my PC on and it boots up, i start it is safemode as it detected a power cut. i reset and all is back to normal.

Next day i am playing Total War and the same thing happens. I do the same things as before and it boots up again. An hour later while playing i notice my computer is running quite hot, GPU at 94c CPU a steady 50c. I stupidly panic thinking that my GPU is going to break everything and i just hold the power button and turn off my PC, i then leave it for about 20mins and try it again. This time my PC does one fan rotation and powers off about 5-6 seconds later tries to boot up again and does one fan rotation and powers off, this happens until i turn it off at the back power switch.


Worried i think it is the GPU i unplug it all and try and boot. My PC boots up this time but without a GPU i dont have a display. On my mobo it goes thorugh a lot of codes and finishes on 34 my MOBO is a Asus Rampage IV formula. Still thinking that it is my GPU that is the problem i ask a friend to bring his round. I plug it in and my PC starts up, goes to bios and then boots windows. i restart 3 times while downloading the new AMD drivers that i needed for the new GPU. Once the drivers downloaded it asked for a restart. My PC restarts and boots up fine, lasted 5 seconds and then just turns off like a power surge.

The problem i had before with the old GPU plugged in happens now. I thought the problem was the GPU now it looks like something else.

Im not amazing with computers so when you guys suggest things im sorry if i ask you what something means.

SPEC:
CPU: intel i7-3820
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i
MOBO: Asus Rampage IV formula
PSU: Corsair CS650M
First GPU: EVGA Gforce GTX 760 SC
Second test GPU: XFX Radeon HD 6950
RAM: Hyperx 16GB of 4GB sticks
Fans: Areo cool Dead silence
Harddrive: WD blue 1TB
SSD: 250GB Samsung


 
Solution
Any behaviour like the one you have been experiencing with the system to do with power is to deal with the root component.

In your case it is to check the power supply unit.
As it is clear for some reason, and since all of the other components of your system rely upon it to run stable.
You should of you can at least try the system with another power supply unit.
To rule out if it is the cause and has become faulty.

If replacing it or trying another power supply does not cure the problem.
The next set of steps is to look at the working temperatures of both your gpu on the graphics card and the cpu in the system.

What often catches people out here is in your bios under system monitoring with some motherboards you have a system shut...
Any behaviour like the one you have been experiencing with the system to do with power is to deal with the root component.

In your case it is to check the power supply unit.
As it is clear for some reason, and since all of the other components of your system rely upon it to run stable.
You should of you can at least try the system with another power supply unit.
To rule out if it is the cause and has become faulty.

If replacing it or trying another power supply does not cure the problem.
The next set of steps is to look at the working temperatures of both your gpu on the graphics card and the cpu in the system.

What often catches people out here is in your bios under system monitoring with some motherboards you have a system shut down tempreture set for the cpu of the system.

If the working temps of the cpu reach the trigger point set in the bios it will trigger a shut down of your system while in use.
So you should check for this option and what the setting is in C or F numeric setting.
As it can often be as simple as increasing the value in the option to prevent what you are experiencing.

What it means is in respect to it.
Is to ensure that the cooling solution used with your cpu is checked to make sure it is running right.
For water cooling loops and blocks, that the pump of the unit is still rotating and giving a rpm report, and that it is working at the correct rpm rate quoted.

For air it is most likely much like the graphics card, that the heat sink or cpu cooler applied to it needs cleaning out from dust build up trapped between the underside of the fans and in the cooling fins of the cooling solution on both.

It never hurts to take a look and also verify the fans are working on a graphics card or a cpu cooler if using air.

If the system suffered from the same problem before the new card was fitted.
It points more to a problem with the CS650M PSU.

It`s the heart of your system though many people think it is not, and often the cause of problems related to what you are experiencing with your system at the moment Jack.

The very first component to check and verify it is stable.
If the power supply is not right, or doing it`s job right at delivering the correct power, then everything else, and all other components also fail to run or work in the correct manner.
 
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