Is this fixable?

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So recently my computer has been dying on me. At first it would *SOMETIMES* fail to reboot after it went into standby. Then it would occasionally turn off on idle or in use, no blue screen, just complete loss of power. Trying to turn it back on again it would boot for about a second, fan on etc. then die straight away. Oddly I found unplugging the heatsink fan power would fix the problem but on start up I would get the following message: System is now in safe mode, please reset CMOS.

So I've finally had time to rebuild the system from scratch, it loaded fine, but as soon as I ran a prim95 test it lost power again.

Does anyone know if this is a Motherboard/PSU/CPU problem? I've tested my ram and gfx card. Will be testing the system with a different psu tomorrow.

SPECS:

GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Black Dragon DDR2 Dual Channel

EVGA nForce 780i SLI nForce 780i (Socket 775)

BFG GeForce GTX 260 OC 896MB GDDR3

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.83GHz

Corsair HX 1000W ATX Modular

Also if its not fixable, is it worth going for the i7 2600k for £100 more than the 2600. I'm a gamer but wanted to know if I would actually need to OC for the latest games or if it would run fine.

Message edited by Grimus on 11-10-2011 at 07:49:44 PM

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first of all have you apply thermal compound on the CPU.
2: if you want hard gamming i recommend 2500k not 2600k because you feel nothing between 2500k or 2600k the only 2600k is 100mhz better and hyperthreading tech but this won't boost up your games.therefore 2500k is extremely recommended for heaviest games.but you need a LGA 1155 mobo not 775.

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Complete loss of power with no blue screen can only be caused by one thing .

Replace your power supply

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pro-gamer wrote :

first of all have you apply thermal compound on the CPU.

Yes. When it first started happening I noticed my temps were way too high, I thought it was probably because I removed the heatsink when trying to fix it and have never added new paste. Its the standard heatsink that comes with the cpu. So i got a new heatsink, applied thermal paste, temps were fine but it still happened so I took it to a pc repair shop...He charged me £50...to add some thermal paste (he clearly saw the new heatsink).

Thanks for the info about the processors, I definitely will be going for the i5 then, that is if it isn't a psu problem. Testing tomorrow should confirm it.

The only time it blue screened was when I was transferring files from one external hdd to another. Then when I rebooted and got to desktop it blue screened again. I know I'm probably risking a lot by constantly turning it back on again but sometimes it will work for days and I have no other option at the mo!

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the blue screen is related to HDD issue enter into bios setting find sata configuration there you can see two option like normal or combination also known as IDE just select combination or IDE then save and exit you will no more longer blue screen.

the better is i5 2500k ultimate gamming CPU ever.

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