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Cresil
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Topic: Half dead PC? Posted: April 29 2011 at 6:09pm |
Is it possible? Can be a mobo half dead? Im buying a new PC and my old one is not happy with that, it wants to make me cry days before the new one arrives and takes its place.
Like i sed im buying a new one so the question is not important, but its just strange.I have problems for few days now, restarts and shutdowns with no reason : "Windows was not properly shut down" Till this morning when i found it dead.Tested the PSU with the clip and a 8 inch fan, the fan is spinning but not the PSS's fan.Ok, went to the store and bought a new PSU, a semimodular Coolmax CU 500W. Replaced the old with the new one and it worked all spinning and lights, but no picture on the screen and the VGA fan spinning like mad, not on 100% but maybe on 500.Was about to fly away but i changed its place on the second PCI-E slot and it worked.So the first one was broken?Changed back same, tested with another VGA card same.Any ideas what is going on with my mobo? ow and one more thing, i can see in my Reliability Monitor that on 04/29/2011 at 8.35 PM i have reinstalled all my drivers and its not so, WTH is going on lol. Edited by Cresil - April 29 2011 at 6:12pm |
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vorlon
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Posted: April 29 2011 at 6:13pm |
had a similar experience with an old lap top, external sockets like usb would not work at all, but the actual laptop did work as a stand alone. so yeah i think someparts can go and the rest can remain functional |
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Ice Man
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Posted: April 30 2011 at 6:11pm |
The motherboard has a voltage regulation section that could be going bad. If I am remembering correctly, the voltage from your PSU passes through the voltage regulators, possibly an energy management processor, and so forth before supplying the voltage to all of the various components. Very small voltage drops are all thats needed to mess things up.
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Cresil
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Posted: April 30 2011 at 7:33pm |
Its strange, the PC is working right now but if i play a game with my normal settings it just restarts, if i play with lower settings its kinda ok.
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Ice Man
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Posted: April 30 2011 at 9:59pm |
When you play a game the processor works a little harder, drawing more power and more heat. Same with the video card. When my video card was starting to go bad it was doing the same thing. I could play a game for a few minutes and then the screen would go blank. If I knew the key strokes I could get out of the game and reboot the computer. Sometimes the whole computer would crash.
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ZSTRAY
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Posted: May 05 2011 at 4:22pm |
If it is restarting I think it's bad RAM, either your video cards RAM or the system RAM. But, you also describe 2 video cards running fan at 100% when plugged into the main PCIx. That's just weird man. Try clearing CMOS and updating BIOS.
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Cresil
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Posted: May 05 2011 at 6:24pm |
Ram just fine, working on my wifes PC right now, it has to be the PSU, i can say im sure it was coz it died, the strange this was my PCI-E going mad after replasing PSU.
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