Hey everyone! Thank you so much for checking out my problem!
I recently upgraded my old Dell XPS 435mt to a bigger tower and some better hardware. I know it's kind of a Frankenstein build, but currently it's specs are:
But two days ago the PC started shutting off and rebooting while running GPU heavy programs.
It's a hard shut off, just a *click* to nothing and then begins to reboot. At first I thought it was a overheating problem with the CPU, so I ran a CPU stress test for a while and nothing happened.I only ran it for about 10-15 minutes but games would shut it off in about 5 minutes, so I figured that wasn't the problem.
My CPU would never go over 74C and my GPU would never go over 65C before shutting off.
Furmark GPU stress test shuts down the system as well. It's definitely acting like a PSU problem, but it's weird that it was completely fine up to now. People often diagnose this problem as too small of a PSU, but outervision.com's PSU calculator says I'm only using about half of my 650w...
I though it might have been a Windows 10 problem (since reading around there has been a few of them...) so I restored everything back to 7, but the same thing is happening.
Did a Ram test and everything seems fine.
I'm hoping it's just a driver issue, but I don't really know what to look for now...
Any suggestions?
Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to give you all the info I know so I don't waste any of your time.
Thanks again!
I recently upgraded my old Dell XPS 435mt to a bigger tower and some better hardware. I know it's kind of a Frankenstein build, but currently it's specs are:
Mobo - Dell XPS 435mt motherboard
CPU - i7 920 2.66ghz
PSU - EVGA SuperNOVA P2 650W 80+ Platinum
Ram - 8gb 1066MHz 2x2gb 4x1gb
GPU - MSI GTX 1070 Gaming
Boot Drive - OWC 120gb SSD
But two days ago the PC started shutting off and rebooting while running GPU heavy programs.
It's a hard shut off, just a *click* to nothing and then begins to reboot. At first I thought it was a overheating problem with the CPU, so I ran a CPU stress test for a while and nothing happened.I only ran it for about 10-15 minutes but games would shut it off in about 5 minutes, so I figured that wasn't the problem.
My CPU would never go over 74C and my GPU would never go over 65C before shutting off.
Furmark GPU stress test shuts down the system as well. It's definitely acting like a PSU problem, but it's weird that it was completely fine up to now. People often diagnose this problem as too small of a PSU, but outervision.com's PSU calculator says I'm only using about half of my 650w...
I though it might have been a Windows 10 problem (since reading around there has been a few of them...) so I restored everything back to 7, but the same thing is happening.
Did a Ram test and everything seems fine.
I'm hoping it's just a driver issue, but I don't really know what to look for now...
Any suggestions?
Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to give you all the info I know so I don't waste any of your time.
Thanks again!
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