Basilikus

Hi There,

I built my PC a few years ago, and it's never been great, but i've got by with it. Recently however it is back into one of it's not behavioural states....This is what it's doing:

First problem:
So i press the power button, the fans and hard drives, external hard drive (i.e everything) turns on and starts whirring, then 1-3 seconds later everything just stops, sometimes it takes over 10 times to get it to actually start!

Second problem:
When i start up a game e.g. CoD:WaW it just completely turns itself off! (Not a restart, just as if you were to hold in the power button for a few seconds, it clicks then just turns off) (I had this problem a few months ago, however it stopped after messing with the hardware...but it's back, and i can't stop it)

Third Problem:
Freezing, sometimes when i'm doing anything it just freezes for up to 10 seconds. This isn't common recently, that is an off and off thing really...

To me, all these things could be related dodgy PSU....but what do you guys think? I'm pretty skint so i don't want to buy a new one so hopefully there's something that can be done.

I use to have SLI, however found that the cards were running over 100 on a game!!! After investigation found out that my PSU is 24A rail and SLI requires at least 28...so i might have damaged something doing this.

PC Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13Ghz Processor
Gainward Bliss 7900GT Golden Sample 512Mb Graphics Card
Asus P5N-E SLI Motherboard
EZcool super silent 600W (ATX-600) PSU
2GB (4x512Mb) OCZ DDR2 667Mhz RAM
250GB WD SATA HDD
1TB Samsung Spinpoint SATA II HDD

So any ideas?

dai

EZcool super silent 600W not a recommended supply

you need this quality

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...corsair%2b550w

check your cpu temp in the bios

Basilikus

Thanks for response. Temperatures are not a problem however. According to several programs (SpeedFan, Core Temp) the processor never really exceeds 58 Celcius (That is under full load for over an hour using Prime95), and normal temp is around 42 Celcius.
Pretty damn expensive PSU, i'll look around see if I can find a cheaper one. Do you still think it could be the PSU even though temperatures are fine etc (And the problems are not all the time etc, well the turning on problem is but the others aren't)?

Thanks.

Basilikus

If it turns out that i should replace the PSU, would one like this do?
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Compo...roductId=35768

dai

see if you can borrow a quality psu to check with

Basilikus

Hi, am not able to get a quality PSU to test it with. Are you able to tell me if the Arianet PSU i posted in a previous post will be ok? Obviously it's own brand but are the specs fine for my system? Am fed up with the starting up problems and want to get it sorted!

dai

they don't post enough specs but the price is a good indication to the quality

a 750w is going to cost 3x that price if it is worth buying