Hi,
I'm having trouble with my PC shutting down on me unexpectedly.
This has been a problem for a while now and I have tried some things to fix it but to no avail.
I used to have a 500W power supply where every now and then I would get an error message saying that my video card was not being supplied with enough power (the specs on the video card say it requires a minimum 400W power supply). I did have the PSU connected into the video card via a 6-pin connector. After getting this error message I decided to upgrade my PSU to a 600W power supply, hoping that it would then have enough juice.
It is at this point that although I do not get that error message any longer, my PC will shut down on me at random times.
When I do finally get it to boot again I receive no error message in any of the Event Viewer logs.
I do like to download some pretty big files (from legitimate sites) and often keep my PC on for a day or two at a time. During this time my computer is happy (doesn't shut down or anything) but when I try to start using it again, after about 5 or 6 minutes of use (playing a game, surfing the web etc) it will shutdown as if the power in the house just went out. I do not see any flashing lights and everything appears as normal otherwise. All the fans in my case work just fine and I do not feel a lot of heat coming off the CPU's heatsink. Usually my computer will not successfully boot right after this occurs. Sometimes it quits on the WIndows splash screen, sometimes it gets past that to where I need to login and then quits. If I wait a few minutes it will be OK for about 15 minutes before quitting again.
Any ideas as to what is wrong? I'd like to get a more accurate appraisal before I start replacing the more expensive parts in my PC (mobo etc.)
Thanks for any help you can provide =).
JFresh
I'm having trouble with my PC shutting down on me unexpectedly.
This has been a problem for a while now and I have tried some things to fix it but to no avail.
I used to have a 500W power supply where every now and then I would get an error message saying that my video card was not being supplied with enough power (the specs on the video card say it requires a minimum 400W power supply). I did have the PSU connected into the video card via a 6-pin connector. After getting this error message I decided to upgrade my PSU to a 600W power supply, hoping that it would then have enough juice.
It is at this point that although I do not get that error message any longer, my PC will shut down on me at random times.
When I do finally get it to boot again I receive no error message in any of the Event Viewer logs.
I do like to download some pretty big files (from legitimate sites) and often keep my PC on for a day or two at a time. During this time my computer is happy (doesn't shut down or anything) but when I try to start using it again, after about 5 or 6 minutes of use (playing a game, surfing the web etc) it will shutdown as if the power in the house just went out. I do not see any flashing lights and everything appears as normal otherwise. All the fans in my case work just fine and I do not feel a lot of heat coming off the CPU's heatsink. Usually my computer will not successfully boot right after this occurs. Sometimes it quits on the WIndows splash screen, sometimes it gets past that to where I need to login and then quits. If I wait a few minutes it will be OK for about 15 minutes before quitting again.
Any ideas as to what is wrong? I'd like to get a more accurate appraisal before I start replacing the more expensive parts in my PC (mobo etc.)
Thanks for any help you can provide =).
JFresh