PSU Recomendations

bromster said:
Would be interested to hear what safe mode holds... Mine sometimes gets a bsod even when booting into safe mode. Switching SATA setting from ahci to ide mode changes bsod to a freeze at the windows logo, just before windows starts. I hear a crackle in the speakers as it starts initializing startup processes, but then it just locks up.

Stumped.
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You clearly have hardware problems.


Isen okay lets see what happens in safemode.
 
If I may suggest depending on your location, take our complete rig to a trusted pc shop (I use Titan-Ice), let them test to power supply. They are setup to quickly test what’s bugging your system. Lookaing at your current setup: CPU: Intel i5 3570k GPU: Sapphire Radeon 7850 (@1050Mhz) could be heavy on the juice.
 
akruger said:
If I may suggest depending on your location, take our complete rig to a trusted pc shop (I use Titan-Ice), let them test to power supply. They are setup to quickly test what’s bugging your system. Lookaing at your current setup: CPU: Intel i5 3570k GPU: Sapphire Radeon 7850 (@1050Mhz) could be heavy on the juice.
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Like I explained, if it was a "juice" issue it would happen when doing heavy load things like playing games, which it does not.

I'm in IT, so it would look a little silly taking my PC that I built in to some other oke to check out.
 
Isengard said:
Like I explained, if it was a "juice" issue it would happen when doing heavy load things like playing games, which it does not.

I'm in IT, so it would look a little silly taking my PC that I built in to some other oke to check out.
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i had issues with my rig a while back where my pc would also shut down and restart. turned out my GPU was faulty (i had a 6870). the pc was fine when playing games but as soon as i went on the internet or left it idle it would do that. Maybe try and get hold of Joker. he would be able to tell you exactly what the issue with my card was, as he sorted it out for me
 
Wenzdayz said:
i had issues with my rig a while back where my pc would also shut down and restart. turned out my GPU was faulty (i had a 6870). the pc was fine when playing games but as soon as i went on the internet or left it idle it would do that. Maybe try and get hold of Joker. he would be able to tell you exactly what the issue with my card was, as he sorted it out for me
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Ah interesting, I may try running with the onboard GPU if my next few tests fail. Thanks.
 
Isengard said:
Like I explained, if it was a "juice" issue it would happen when doing heavy load things like playing games, which it does not.

I'm in IT, so it would look a little silly taking my PC that I built in to some other oke to check out.
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I agree completely, a second opinion never hurt. Some shops are rigged with test benches specifically for hardware components. Hiron’s boot CD might also assist in diagnostic tools.
 
akruger said:
I agree completely, a second opinion never hurt. Some shops are rigged with test benches specifically for hardware components. Hiron’s boot CD might also assist in diagnostic tools.
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Yeah I just cant justify paying someone to do what I could do for free. :)
 
have you tried turning off any energy saving modes in the bios? cant think of the names but it should be under cpu settings in your bios.

it could be that the moment your cpu goes into energy saving mode (underclocks) something goes wrong...
 
wes1007 said:
have you tried turning off any energy saving modes in the bios? cant think of the names but it should be under cpu settings in your bios.

it could be that the moment your cpu goes into energy saving mode (underclocks) something goes wrong...
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I turned that off in Windows.
 
Have you checked for crash dumps if your pc is crashing? Also I know of a guy who had the same problem, turned out his ATI drivers were corrupt. IF you can get your hands on any nvidia card, try it and see if it still crashes.
 
There are no logs, it's a hard shutdown. I'm going to try running my onboard GPU after trying a few more things.
 
Isengard said:
There are no logs, it's a hard shutdown. I'm going to try running my onboard GPU after trying a few more things.
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Do it now. Take your VGA card out completely and see if it helps. Then add a hungry Nvidia card if you can get one. This should rule out the power supply, and maybe point to ATI driver issues.
 
bromster said:
Do it now. Take your VGA card out completely and see if it helps. Then add a hungry Nvidia card if you can get one. This should rule out the power supply, and maybe point to ATI driver issues.
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Firstly I'm systematically eliminating all possibilities, of which my graphics card is the least likely since I've never had issues until upgrading my mobo and CPU.

Secondly and like I explained earlier, power draw is not the issue and putting in a "hungry" nVidia card would mean absolutely squat at this point, never mind the fact of where I would get one anyway.

So no, GPU test will be my last test. Thank you.
 
Quick update:

I set my PC to safe mode last night and just left it running. As of now my PC has still not had the shutdown issue, going on 16 hours uptime.

So obviously it's not a hardware issue, now to find out which software/ driver is causing this...
 
Isengard said:
Quick update:

I set my PC to safe mode last night and just left it running. As of now my PC has still not had the shutdown issue, going on 16 hours uptime.

So obviously it's not a hardware issue, now to find out which software/ driver is causing this...
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Clean install and then slowly install the software and drivers while testing it after each install ( yes its going to take a while but there really isn't much else )
 
JP'S said:
Clean install and then slowly install the software and drivers while testing it after each install ( yes its going to take a while but there really isn't much else )
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I'm going to do a reverse for the next week. One by one stop software and drivers and see if I can pinpoint the bugger. Otherwise yes, this weekend is format number 2...
 
Isengard said:
I'm going to do a reverse for the next week. One by one stop software and drivers and see if I can pinpoint the bugger. Otherwise yes, this weekend is format number 2...
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Its a pretty shitty situation you got hope everything goes all right dude :)
 
Maybe also try turning off automatic restart on system failure in windows. You might see an error msg where before it just restarted.
 
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