Today I upgraded my PC from Win7 to Win10, then upgraded the hardware. Current specs:
PSU: Corsair RM 1000 (3 years old at this point)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus AX370-Gaming K5 (new)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X (new)
[strike]GFX[/strike] GPU: Gigabyte Aorus Geforce GTX 1060 (new)
HD: some Samsung SSD (3 years old)
Ram: Corsair Vengeance 2x 8gb DDR4
I put it together, started it up. Took a long while for the initial "beep", but eventually Windows loaded and I logged in, only for the PC to shut itself down shortly after. Afterwards, I powered the PC up a several times only to see it shut itself down every time at any random point after the boot and before Windows loaded (occasionally I'd manage to log in too). Sometimes there would be no "beep" at all and the lights on the motherboard wouldn't turn on. In this case, the PC wouldn't shut down and I had to do it manually. At some point the case fans stopped running too.
At that point, I went and re-checked everything I could think of, unplugged and plugged back in every cable and eventually stumbled into the fact that GFX was plugged into the PSU only with a 4-pin. Eventually I managed to find out that 6-pin or 8-pin connectors (I went with 8-pin) are what I'm supposed to be using for the GFX (this piece of information wasn't available anywhere in the product package, by the way). Figuring that maybe this was what had been causing the shutdowns all along, I powered up the PC once again. It got to Windows, I logged in ... and after a minute, the machine shut down again.
I have no damn clue what's happening.
PSU: Corsair RM 1000 (3 years old at this point)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus AX370-Gaming K5 (new)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X (new)
[strike]GFX[/strike] GPU: Gigabyte Aorus Geforce GTX 1060 (new)
HD: some Samsung SSD (3 years old)
Ram: Corsair Vengeance 2x 8gb DDR4
I put it together, started it up. Took a long while for the initial "beep", but eventually Windows loaded and I logged in, only for the PC to shut itself down shortly after. Afterwards, I powered the PC up a several times only to see it shut itself down every time at any random point after the boot and before Windows loaded (occasionally I'd manage to log in too). Sometimes there would be no "beep" at all and the lights on the motherboard wouldn't turn on. In this case, the PC wouldn't shut down and I had to do it manually. At some point the case fans stopped running too.
At that point, I went and re-checked everything I could think of, unplugged and plugged back in every cable and eventually stumbled into the fact that GFX was plugged into the PSU only with a 4-pin. Eventually I managed to find out that 6-pin or 8-pin connectors (I went with 8-pin) are what I'm supposed to be using for the GFX (this piece of information wasn't available anywhere in the product package, by the way). Figuring that maybe this was what had been causing the shutdowns all along, I powered up the PC once again. It got to Windows, I logged in ... and after a minute, the machine shut down again.
I have no damn clue what's happening.
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