Hello All, My computer is starting to randomly shut down with no warning..and when I say shut down..I don't mean the "windows is shutting down" stuff..I mean the whole computer is just randomly shutting down as if someone unplugged it. Here is what has happened in the last few weeks with this computer.. (I built it myself about a year and a half ago). I replaced a water-cooled CPU (AMD FX DUAL CORE) with a big Zalman CPU fan..it was so big that it was shoved against one of my Corsair LED RAM sticks that was causing the CPU fan to not fully seat on the CPU..at that time the computer would randomly freeze..then shut down..so I took out the stick of ram and am running on 1gb now instead of two (the ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe m-board requires that the RAM be in certain slots). It worked fine for a couple of weeks..until two days ago...the computer had been on all night and my wife was using the internet when it just shutdown..started up fine though. It just did it to me also today after only being on for about 45 minutes. Here is a bit of an older problem that could be related....when I was away last summer my wife went out of town and left the computer plugged into the wall..when she returned two weeks later the computer would not power on when she pressed the power button (it would come on for half a second and then shut off)..so when I got back I took out the power supply and tested it..and it wasn't working... Magically the power supply worked a couple of days later after testing it again..could it be that this suck might be faulty or could my CPU still be running hot? My Mboard bios is only reporting 40degrees C for the CPU..which is not back..no overclocking or anything also.. Advice? Thanks!
First thing I would do is put in a new power supply, Next things is,Do you have any other fans running BESIDE the power supply fan ?? It sounds like the computer is still getting too hot. You need to add some case fans..
I actually have three case fans. The mBoard bios is only reporting about 40 degrees for the CPU..I think I might try a new power supply..do power supply's come DOA much? I only ask because a couple of weeks ago I bought a PS from bestbuy and it didn't work at all..computer wouldn't turn on..i did the test also with the paper clip to to see if it worked and it didn't..so I returned it the same day I bought it. I think I might try and purchase another one..
