Since a few weeks my rig has been fed with shutdown troubles. and just recently it showed up alot more often.
I made a thread in the general amd section a while back. but after some checking im 99% sure my PSU is probably the reason.
Link to thread: http://www.overclock.net/amd-general...ml#post8811026
Basicly, my rig shuts down at random times. Sometimes I can use my rig for hours and sometimes I cant even get passed the bios check screen before it shuts down again.
There's a few things that confuse me though. And I would like to make sure if a PSU can cause the two following things ive encountered.
1. Sometimes it completely shuts down like when theres a power shutdown. It just turns off in a sec and done. But sometimes it first closes all the applications i have running and then just logs off windows and eventually turns the power off.
2. Since two days back my rig also managed to turn itself on & and off frequently. I was sleeping when I suddenly woke up by the noise of my rig powering up, then shutting down. This kept going on for a while. Sometimes I powered off the PSU and sometimes it just stopped booting up by itself eventually.
note: I had turned off my PC when i went to bed and not in sleep mode or anything.
I dont really have another PSU to clearly test this, my friends dont have PSU powerfull enough to fully power up my rig (no 6pin connectors) and I don't wanna end up buying a new PSU when it could easely be my motherboard or something else causing this.
So yeah, just want to make sure if PSU's can cause strange stuff like this to happen.
Thanks in advance!
I made a thread in the general amd section a while back. but after some checking im 99% sure my PSU is probably the reason.
Link to thread: http://www.overclock.net/amd-general...ml#post8811026
Basicly, my rig shuts down at random times. Sometimes I can use my rig for hours and sometimes I cant even get passed the bios check screen before it shuts down again.
There's a few things that confuse me though. And I would like to make sure if a PSU can cause the two following things ive encountered.
1. Sometimes it completely shuts down like when theres a power shutdown. It just turns off in a sec and done. But sometimes it first closes all the applications i have running and then just logs off windows and eventually turns the power off.
2. Since two days back my rig also managed to turn itself on & and off frequently. I was sleeping when I suddenly woke up by the noise of my rig powering up, then shutting down. This kept going on for a while. Sometimes I powered off the PSU and sometimes it just stopped booting up by itself eventually.
note: I had turned off my PC when i went to bed and not in sleep mode or anything.
I dont really have another PSU to clearly test this, my friends dont have PSU powerfull enough to fully power up my rig (no 6pin connectors) and I don't wanna end up buying a new PSU when it could easely be my motherboard or something else causing this.
So yeah, just want to make sure if PSU's can cause strange stuff like this to happen.
Thanks in advance!