Blackbart Posted February 14, 2012 Member ID: 51 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5974 Content Per Day: 1.04 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 45818 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 06/26/1949 Posted February 14, 2012 Sunday evening was playing on server and things were working fine then my puter just shut down in the middle of a game...The fans stopped and my video also...The strange thing is there was still power to my power button...over the next hour this happend two more times then I shut down for the night...Monday when I turned on the puter it barely got everything loaded when it did it again twice in a row...My first thought was power supply was going bad but I have power like I said to my power button so I'm not sure that is the problem...Has anyone ever experienced anything like this?... Awards
2_MANY_BEERS Posted February 14, 2012 Member ID: 96 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 108 Topic Count: 1049 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 8817 Content Per Day: 1.53 Reputation: 3309 Achievement Points: 62219 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 19 Birthday: 06/30/1954 Device: Windows Posted February 14, 2012 Blackbart - Puter shuts down Sunday evening was playing on server and things were working fine then my puter just shut down in the middle of a game...The fans stopped and my video also...The strange thing is there was still power to my power button...over the next hour this happend two more times then I shut down for the night...Monday when I turned on the puter it barely got everything loaded when it did it again twice in a row...My first thought was power supply was going bad but I have power like I said to my power button so I'm not sure that is the problem...Has anyone ever experienced anything like this?... HXTR will be with you in a moment I am sure. LOL
Hoth Posted February 14, 2012 Member ID: 64 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 20 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1106 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 978 Achievement Points: 10464 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 11:12 AM Birthday: 12/09/1969 Device: Windows Posted February 14, 2012 A couple of quick thoughts. Check the processor fan to see if its rotating. Make sure the processor heat sink/fan hasn't moved any as well. If it is partially off center could cause what you described. Just because you have a power light doesn't mean the power supply is pushing the correct voltage. How old is the power supply? Awards
GorillaXI Posted February 14, 2012 Member ID: 62 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 73 Topic Count: 480 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 4124 Content Per Day: 0.71 Reputation: 1413 Achievement Points: 27905 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 4, 2015 Birthday: 06/16/1972 Posted February 14, 2012 Also check your GPU fan. I had a problem like this a while back and put on a new GPU fan and everything worked fine.
drunksniper Posted February 14, 2012 Member ID: 2347 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 26 Topic Count: 45 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 562 Content Per Day: 0.11 Reputation: 107 Achievement Points: 3685 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/28/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 14, 2022 Birthday: 02/07/1970 Posted February 14, 2012 I have a had a few problems with my psu and are now on my third which eventually i got myself a good one . My experience with it was the power supply even though the power button came on nothing else would boot up so have your power supply tested Hopefully this will sort it out for you.
Shamu Posted February 14, 2012 Member ID: 715 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 8 Topic Count: 418 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 2178 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 1183 Achievement Points: 16606 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 11/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 11/04/1943 Posted February 14, 2012 I this same topic you may want to look at my issues.............yet to be resolved Some similarities I think. But not as bad as it once was. It's titled Video Card because initially I thought that was the culprit. In my case my video card and power supply have been tested and appear to be okay. http://www.xtremeidiots.com/fora_topic.asp?tid=23629
KaptCrunch Posted February 14, 2012 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 48 Topic Count: 344 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5072 Content Per Day: 0.88 Reputation: 4336 Achievement Points: 40917 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 63 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 53 minutes ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Posted February 14, 2012 shamu try rolling back a version on video drivers Awards
Shamu Posted February 14, 2012 Member ID: 715 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 8 Topic Count: 418 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 2178 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 1183 Achievement Points: 16606 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 11/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 11/04/1943 Posted February 14, 2012 KaptCrunch shamu try rolling back a version on video drivers Did that, had the people who built the PC take control of it remotely and roll back some stuff, more than I can remember but still had the problem.
KaptCrunch Posted February 14, 2012 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 48 Topic Count: 344 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5072 Content Per Day: 0.88 Reputation: 4336 Achievement Points: 40917 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 63 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 53 minutes ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Posted February 14, 2012 oops i slipped Shamu its Blackbart talking to so your still having issues with your system ? can you borrow an UPS unit to see if brown out is the issue there Awards
fireurza Posted February 14, 2012 Member ID: 677 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 18 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1457 Content Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 791 Achievement Points: 9890 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 11/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 16, 2024 Birthday: 02/20/1986 Posted February 14, 2012 more than likely a heat problem Awards
Blackbart Posted February 15, 2012 Member ID: 51 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5974 Content Per Day: 1.04 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 45818 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 06/26/1949 Author Posted February 15, 2012 I have narrowed it down to the psu...I'm trying to decide if I want to put more money in this one or just build a new one...I have put almost $400 in parts and upgrades over the years to get it to last this long (it's almost 7yrs old). Cod2 & 4 is the best I can play on it...Decisions, decisions...Makes my head hurt...Lol...Thanks to everyone that has responded... Awards
Artimus Prime Posted February 15, 2012 Member ID: 645 Group: ++ COD2 Admin Followers: 19 Topic Count: 38 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 710 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 312 Achievement Points: 4328 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Monday at 03:09 AM Birthday: 04/19/1960 Device: Windows Posted February 15, 2012 If you wouldn't have bought the wife a new car you could have had a heck of a computer. Awards
Blackbart Posted February 15, 2012 Member ID: 51 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5974 Content Per Day: 1.04 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 45818 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 06/26/1949 Author Posted February 15, 2012 Artimus Prime If you wouldn't have bought the wife a new car you could have had a heck of a computer. Ya and she's giving me grief about wanting to build a new one...Go figure... Awards
BUDMAN Posted February 15, 2012 Member ID: 800 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 152 Topic Count: 139 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 7116 Content Per Day: 1.25 Reputation: 4657 Achievement Points: 60611 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 11/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 05/29/1957 Device: Windows Posted February 15, 2012 And came with a 40 gig hard drive ....lol..... Awards
LtLaszlo Posted February 15, 2012 Member ID: 151 Group: ++ COD2 Admin Followers: 62 Topic Count: 190 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 9241 Content Per Day: 1.60 Reputation: 24525 Achievement Points: 95575 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 323 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Wednesday at 03:31 AM Birthday: 05/17/1959 Device: Kindle Fire Posted February 15, 2012 I've had similar issues with excessive dust on motherboards, so once a year I take the covers off and blow it out with a blower or compressor. Has resolved it a couple times. My wife is a "clean-freak", but you'd be amazed how fast the fans pull dust in. Twice it has fixed what seemed like over-heating, though the fans were on. Just a something else to check. Good luck Bart!! Awards
LtLaszlo Posted February 15, 2012 Member ID: 151 Group: ++ COD2 Admin Followers: 62 Topic Count: 190 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 9241 Content Per Day: 1.60 Reputation: 24525 Achievement Points: 95575 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 323 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Wednesday at 03:31 AM Birthday: 05/17/1959 Device: Kindle Fire Posted February 15, 2012 Oh...and nice avatar Arti!! Thems nice ones!! Awards
Marauder-CDN Posted February 20, 2012 Member ID: 1777 Group: ++ COD5 Admin Followers: 30 Topic Count: 50 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 414 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 213 Achievement Points: 2989 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/09/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 28 Device: Windows Posted February 20, 2012 I know I am late on this...but have ran into similar issues over time...could even be the power bar. Me personally I have never bought a cheap one but if you have bought one,could be an issue. Have even seen this happen if people have rearranged a room and all of the sudden more things are plugged into that AC circuit that the puter is on. Awards
WiZiD Posted February 20, 2012 Member ID: 804 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 446 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3600 Content Per Day: 0.63 Reputation: 1053 Achievement Points: 24386 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/28/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 3 Birthday: 04/25/1960 Device: Windows Posted February 20, 2012 If you go to the run command right above start. Type in there event viewer.This should come up. Second screen from the left in the Overview and Summary you wil see Critical error. Under error you should find all the error logs that happened to your computer. Now be smart and as soon as your computer takes a dump. WRITE the time down. Now you left click on an event to choose it then right click on a event and choose View events in this log. you should see this. You will see in my error log Kernel-EventTracing I Googled that and got all kinds of help. And it is easy but you DO NOT want to make any changes to your computer. I would just use this a reference to help diagnose the problem. If you think you need help ask someone. And if you do deice to make changes on your own I always copy the direction for the fix in a txt file so they can be reversed if necessary. I hope this can help.... Damb this took a long time to post... Awards
Blackbart Posted February 20, 2012 Member ID: 51 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5974 Content Per Day: 1.04 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 45818 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 06/26/1949 Author Posted February 20, 2012 Thanks for the info guys...It definitely was the power supply...I got the puter back up and running with some old parts I had...It will get me by til the parts for my new build come in some time this week... Awards
Cavey Posted February 20, 2012 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Posted February 20, 2012 Take a pic Bart and post once built. Will be a sweet rig.
Joe Canadian Posted February 20, 2012 Member ID: 822 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 87 Topic Count: 317 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5477 Content Per Day: 0.96 Reputation: 5025 Achievement Points: 42632 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 20 Joined: 12/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 25, 2023 Birthday: 03/01/1967 Posted February 20, 2012 Blackbart Artimus Prime If you wouldn't have bought the wife a new car you could have had a heck of a computer. Ya and she's giving me grief about wanting to build a new one...Go figure... haha, women don't get it, computers are very important for xi like us :-) Awards
BattlewolF Posted February 20, 2012 Member ID: 2028 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 12 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1740 Content Per Day: 0.33 Reputation: 545 Achievement Points: 10637 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/10/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 11, 2024 Birthday: 03/10/1963 Device: Windows Posted February 20, 2012 LtLaszlo I've had similar issues with excessive dust on motherboards, so once a year I take the covers off and blow it out with a blower or compressor. Has resolved it a couple times. My wife is a "clean-freak", but you'd be amazed how fast the fans pull dust in. Twice it has fixed what seemed like over-heating, though the fans were on. Just a something else to check. Good luck Bart!! +1 Awards
PSYCOKILLER Posted March 1, 2012 Member ID: 2705 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 149 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 24 Achievement Points: 954 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 14, 2013 Birthday: 07/24/1961 Posted March 1, 2012 (edited) Thermal paste , its what s on your CPU between the CPU and its mating surface to the heatsink , which is the most important thing not to overlook also dust buildup on fan tips and heatsinks also dirty DIMM slots and do you smoke ? nicotine and tar buildup is a great combination when in contact with dust , you can always PM me and we can talk about it to come to a solution as I am more than happy to assit you . David A. Edited March 1, 2012 by PSYCOKILLER
PSYCOKILLER Posted March 6, 2012 Member ID: 2705 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 149 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 24 Achievement Points: 954 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 14, 2013 Birthday: 07/24/1961 Posted March 6, 2012 (edited) Another possibility is that one of your ram chips or DIMM slots is damaged , the way to check it is for multi chips take one out and boot , then reinsert one and remove the other , also checking the DIMM slots as you go along I had a notebook that would turn on then off and it was a bad sector on one of the RSM chips please keep informed to your findings , any time you need help....David your friendly neighborhood PSYCOKILLER Edited March 6, 2012 by PSYCOKILLER
Blackbart Posted March 6, 2012 Member ID: 51 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5974 Content Per Day: 1.04 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 45818 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 06/26/1949 Author Posted March 6, 2012 It was the power supply...Instead of putting more money into a seven year old puter I built a new one...Thanks for all the input from everyone... :) Awards
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