A couple months ago I started having intermittent power issues (computer would be asleep and when I came back into the room it would be off, etc) until eventually all I could get was a light flicker on the case and the cpu fan spin for 1-2 seconds before power off. Also, I could only get this effect if I turned the PSU off then on again (I could not do it 2 times in a row with the PSU set to on). I figured my old 430W PSU had died after its good 3-4 years of service and bought a Corsair 600W PSU. That one had the same problem, only much faster–I think it only lasted 1 month.<\/p>\n
I can’t seem to pin down what the problem is so I bought a new motherboard:
\nGIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb\/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard<\/p>\n
And a new CPU (not overclocked):
\nAMD FX 4100 4-Core Processor, 3.6GHz Socket AM3+ FD4100WMGUSBX<\/p>\n
New RAM:
\nCORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B<\/p>\n
and for good measure, a new case and a new DVD drive (Sony DVD-RW, not sure of exact specs but I can get them if it would help)<\/p>\n
The only original items left are the graphics card and the HDD.
\nHIS H467QS1GH Radeon HD 4670 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card<\/p>\n
(I can get HDD specs if needed)<\/p>\n
I took all of the components to a shop to have them installed since having so much trouble made me worried that I was doing something wrong. My guy tells me the PSU is bad, that the voltage is fine but it is giving a PG number that was so high his meter wouldn’t register it.<\/p>\n
The guy installs everything with yet another new PSU:<\/p>\n
Cooler Master Extreme Power Plus 700W RS-700-PCAA-E3<\/p>\n
Everything powers up fine, I take it home. The computer has turned itself off twice since then so I get a new surge protector and plug it into a different outlet. Last night it turned itself off in the middle of a program and won’t turn back on. No lights or anything, flicked the switch on the back does nothing.<\/p>\n
If it is the PSU, I’ll be on my 4th in 6 months so I would love some help trying to figure out what is going on.<\/p>\n
If you need specifications, I am more than happy to provide them but a little guidance as to which ones would be really helpful.<\/p>\n
Also, I’ve built all of my machines (but would still consider myself to be an amateur) and I have never had a problem like this. No one seems to know what is going on–both on the internet and in person at shops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":1},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-7137","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/7137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=7137"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=7137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}