- Nov 13, 2016
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Hey there,
apologies if any of this is vague or not informative enough, i'm completely clueless when it comes to computers and anything related. [strike]I also hope this didn't get posted in the wrong forum, i'm obviously new here and signed up just now.[/strike]
Last november i purchased a new computer after my old one has been running faithfully for about 8 years. For about a month it went perfectly; no lags, no shutdowns, worked perfectly well with, say, Skyrim on highest settings and about 30 additional mods (which may not be a relatively demanding thing, i really just don't know). Around christmas eve (i'm not sure about the exact date, which might be relevant to any software updates released around that time) it then began to turn off instantly during gaming. No Bsods, no warnings, no previous lagging, the power simply went off and i then had to wait about half a minute and sometimes even had to unplug it before i was able to reboot it. This didn't happen predictably, but after random times spent gaming or streaming drawings in Paint Tool Sai. Sometimes merely a minute passed, sometimes it worked well for days of almost 10 hours played.
I used to discuss this at length with an acquaintance who knew more than i ever would about computer-reated issues, and of course we first tried to update every driver possible. When this failed me i re-installed everything, only to be met with the same issue again. We ran a bench test (is that what it's called?), which went just fine, although we did notice the GPUs fans didn't work optimally and adjusted them. While the computer wasn't exactly overheated before it certainly wasn't afterwards, but this didn't fix the problem either.
Since at some point around the first time this occured i exchanged an old outlet strip with a new one i assumed this might've been the issue, exchanged it (didn't actually plug any other device into it other than the tower), and...the issue remained. Same goes for using an entirely different outlet in this apartment.
Since its warranty was still valid i sent it back to the company i got it from and they basically did the same thing i did with the same results: it performed really well during bench tests (over an entire weekend afaik), but when i used it after its return it still produced the same issue.
I've been googling this issue and most discussions are almost, but not quite describing the problem at hand. The most common solution seemed to be to get a better PSU, but i didn't expect the 600 Watt EVGA 600W, 80+ i have to be the issue at hand (though, of course i could be mistaken).
Its event ID is always 41 (kernel power error), which doesn't really say much at all.
Anyways, sorry for the lengthy text. Here's some more info on the system.
Thanks a lot for reading this in advance, i'm sorry this got so overly lengthy. Have a good weekend in any case.
apologies if any of this is vague or not informative enough, i'm completely clueless when it comes to computers and anything related. [strike]I also hope this didn't get posted in the wrong forum, i'm obviously new here and signed up just now.[/strike]
Last november i purchased a new computer after my old one has been running faithfully for about 8 years. For about a month it went perfectly; no lags, no shutdowns, worked perfectly well with, say, Skyrim on highest settings and about 30 additional mods (which may not be a relatively demanding thing, i really just don't know). Around christmas eve (i'm not sure about the exact date, which might be relevant to any software updates released around that time) it then began to turn off instantly during gaming. No Bsods, no warnings, no previous lagging, the power simply went off and i then had to wait about half a minute and sometimes even had to unplug it before i was able to reboot it. This didn't happen predictably, but after random times spent gaming or streaming drawings in Paint Tool Sai. Sometimes merely a minute passed, sometimes it worked well for days of almost 10 hours played.
I used to discuss this at length with an acquaintance who knew more than i ever would about computer-reated issues, and of course we first tried to update every driver possible. When this failed me i re-installed everything, only to be met with the same issue again. We ran a bench test (is that what it's called?), which went just fine, although we did notice the GPUs fans didn't work optimally and adjusted them. While the computer wasn't exactly overheated before it certainly wasn't afterwards, but this didn't fix the problem either.
Since at some point around the first time this occured i exchanged an old outlet strip with a new one i assumed this might've been the issue, exchanged it (didn't actually plug any other device into it other than the tower), and...the issue remained. Same goes for using an entirely different outlet in this apartment.
Since its warranty was still valid i sent it back to the company i got it from and they basically did the same thing i did with the same results: it performed really well during bench tests (over an entire weekend afaik), but when i used it after its return it still produced the same issue.
I've been googling this issue and most discussions are almost, but not quite describing the problem at hand. The most common solution seemed to be to get a better PSU, but i didn't expect the 600 Watt EVGA 600W, 80+ i have to be the issue at hand (though, of course i could be mistaken).
Its event ID is always 41 (kernel power error), which doesn't really say much at all.
Anyways, sorry for the lengthy text. Here's some more info on the system.
Thanks a lot for reading this in advance, i'm sorry this got so overly lengthy. Have a good weekend in any case.
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