Hello,
My computer has been shutting down on it's own for several weeks now. The case is an older HP case which has a proprietary power switch pin, which is not compatible with the GA mobo, so I have to use the PSU switch to power the PC on and off. It's common for it to shutdown while I'm playing games and on chrome. It also shuts down after I close applications. The temperatures on the CPU cores never seem to go above 40C and the GPU never goes above 50C.
I have tried many of the things posted on these forums, but to no avail. I have cleaned dust out of the components, I have made sure RAM is completely in the socket, checked the PSU, checked memory with windows memory check, and went on speedfan to check voltages and temperatures.
I have concluded that this is possibly a Memory issue (not sure which kind), a CPU issue, or a Motherboard issue.
My components:
Nothing has been overclocked.
CPU: AMD FX 8320 @ 3.5GHz - stock cooling
PSU: EVGA 600B watt
Motherboard: GA 78lmt-usb3
GPU: GT 740 FTW
8GB RAM
The PSU, CPU and Motherboard are all within 5 months old. I have also gone into the BIOS to check temperatures and voltages, but the motherboard won't let me underclock the CPU to reduce temperature, and it won't let me lower CPU voltages. The motherboard only allows me to have voltages of 1.5-1.9.
I went onto speedfan and the charts showed that the DRAM is at 2.2V. I cannot lower the voltage of the DRAM in the bios either.
So this problem has been very hard to detect. I think it is either the CPU, memory, motherboard, or GPU. I heard the FX 8320 overheats with the stock cooler but I'm not sure if that's the issue. This motherboard does have a feature however that will shutdown when there's overheating to prevent damage.
I have used MSI afterburner before, but if I'm correct, the profiles don't save so I don't believe the GPU is overclocked. I have tried MSI afterburner while playing games before and they always crash.
I also checked beep codes but am not sure which code it's signalling. AWARD beep codes indicate that I either have a DRAM refresh failure, Parity failure, CPU overheating, or problem with GPU.
Help for this would be very much appreciated as I have spent hours trying to figure this out.
My computer has been shutting down on it's own for several weeks now. The case is an older HP case which has a proprietary power switch pin, which is not compatible with the GA mobo, so I have to use the PSU switch to power the PC on and off. It's common for it to shutdown while I'm playing games and on chrome. It also shuts down after I close applications. The temperatures on the CPU cores never seem to go above 40C and the GPU never goes above 50C.
I have tried many of the things posted on these forums, but to no avail. I have cleaned dust out of the components, I have made sure RAM is completely in the socket, checked the PSU, checked memory with windows memory check, and went on speedfan to check voltages and temperatures.
I have concluded that this is possibly a Memory issue (not sure which kind), a CPU issue, or a Motherboard issue.
My components:
Nothing has been overclocked.
CPU: AMD FX 8320 @ 3.5GHz - stock cooling
PSU: EVGA 600B watt
Motherboard: GA 78lmt-usb3
GPU: GT 740 FTW
8GB RAM
The PSU, CPU and Motherboard are all within 5 months old. I have also gone into the BIOS to check temperatures and voltages, but the motherboard won't let me underclock the CPU to reduce temperature, and it won't let me lower CPU voltages. The motherboard only allows me to have voltages of 1.5-1.9.
I went onto speedfan and the charts showed that the DRAM is at 2.2V. I cannot lower the voltage of the DRAM in the bios either.
So this problem has been very hard to detect. I think it is either the CPU, memory, motherboard, or GPU. I heard the FX 8320 overheats with the stock cooler but I'm not sure if that's the issue. This motherboard does have a feature however that will shutdown when there's overheating to prevent damage.
I have used MSI afterburner before, but if I'm correct, the profiles don't save so I don't believe the GPU is overclocked. I have tried MSI afterburner while playing games before and they always crash.
I also checked beep codes but am not sure which code it's signalling. AWARD beep codes indicate that I either have a DRAM refresh failure, Parity failure, CPU overheating, or problem with GPU.
Help for this would be very much appreciated as I have spent hours trying to figure this out.
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