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Hi,

I ordered the following components, and after a few hurdles it's now at least running and very smoothly. However, as I'm playing (Warhammer Online atm) I keep getting system restarts. I just get completely booted out of the game and the computer restarts.

I went to ctrl panel/system and the error page and see quite a few errors. I don't know if that's normal or not, nor do I know what they mean. I also downloaded realtemp 3.0 and seem to consistently run at around 45-56 or so. I don't know if I have everything plugged in corrections or not. Or maybe there are settings that I need to manually change?

Also, does anyone have any experience with any of these components or possibly more importantly, these components together?

Can anyone please help? =/


1 hec ZEPHYR HEC-750DR-AT 750W Continuous @ 40°C ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V V2.91 SLI NVIDIA SLI Certified NVIDIA HYBRID-SLI Certified ... - Retail

. 1 Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80601920 - Retail

. 1 Tagan CS-A+Curbic Black Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail

. 1 Sony Optiarc 24X DVD/CD Rewritable Drive Black SATA Model AD-7240S-0B - OEM

. 1 Logitech Classic Black USB Standard Keyboard 200 - Retail

. 1 G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9T-6GBNQ - Retail

. 1 EVGA 896-P3-1255-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail

. 1 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit for System Builders - OEM

. 1 ECS BLACK SERIES X58B-A LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

. 1 Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600AAJS 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - OEM

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It's a poor quality PSU that could be the source of the problem, but not for certain.

If your cores are 45-56C at idle that is too warm, also.

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Reply to Proximon

Thank you Proximon for the reply!

Poor quality psu, you mean the i7 is a bad processor?

What do you think I could be doing wrong with the temp? Change some settings or something? The processor is brand-spanking new, and I'd hate to RMA it and wind up getting the same effect when it was something I was doing wrong all along...

Reply to nlmiller1975

PSU = Power Supply Unit.
The HEC Zephyr is junk. HEC in general is considered tier 5, bottom of the barrel for PSUs.

Your CPU cooler might not be fully seated, or there might be some foreign particle like a hair in between the cooler and CPU, or the CPU fan may not be working... those are a few things to check.

Or you could have a bad connection somewhere.

Have a look here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] -checklist

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