PC shutdown problem

hmmm my regular hardware Gurus are MIA so i figured i pose the question here ...

my seems shutdown randomly when i use it ... a full shut down with no blue screen or anything ... almost like the power cable was yank out of the socket ... seems stay on and be happy if i just leave it alone and not touch it :wtf:

PC specs:
E8200 @3ghz with coolermaster cpu cooler
4gb ram
gigabyte p35 dq6 motherboard
msi 6870
creative soundcard
corsair 650w psu (recently purchased, like the end last year)
lian li pc-05n casing with fan controller and extra 140mm fan over the pci slots
1x WD 500gb, 1x WD 320gb and seagate 1tb
microsoft x8 and x6 peripherals

the OS is on the 500gb cause thats a loaned drive (my OS drive gave in, i think :confused:) ... 320gb is the games drive with steam on it ... 1tb is storage drive ...

so far, pc shuts down when playing games via steam or not, normal web browsing (steam would be open most of the time) and watching a movie from the OS drive (500gb)

so im kinda lost on what to do now ... plan on changing the OS drive already ... did the chckdisk things on both 500gb and 320gb and no issues were raised ...

any more suggestions besides leaving the pc alone and playing xbox :cry:

Sounds like a problem my friend had where it will shutdown as soon as he starts up a game or play for 2min.
His pc was not getting enough power.

The other thing is Overheating CPU.

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Originally Posted by Crzwaco

Sounds like a problem my friend had where it will shutdown as soon as he starts up a game or play for 2min.
His pc was not getting enough power.

The other thing is Overheating CPU.

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Yup, seems like a power thing. If the CPU is overheating you'll notice it. It will become jittery and after a while it will start stuttering pretty badly until it bombs out.

Try another PSU first before you do anything else.

thanks guys ... eish aldyr aint gona be impressed with me if he has to go swap out the psu ...

guess im testing tonight

also check Event Viewer on your computer see if you spot any wierd events and post them here.

hmmm i did check that ... there was only an issue with the virtualdisk dll i think relating to virtualbox ... did a revo uninstall on that and that issue went away

In my expierence i had a similar issue, when i played games PC would shut down on me, at the time it was my GTX295 over heating, and causeing a sytem shut down. I would say yank the GPU and see if you play something if it still shuts itself down.

Since diagnostics is a bitch, pardon the language, i suggest you may do the power supply thing and if that turns out to be a negative install a montoring program and watch you temps.

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Originally Posted by ZAP_Tech

In my expierence i had a similar issue, when i played games PC would shut down on me, at the time it was my GTX295 over heating, and causeing a sytem shut down. I would say yank the GPU and see if you play something if it still shuts itself down.

Since diagnostics is a bitch, pardon the language, i suggest you may do the power supply thing and if that turns out to be a negative install a montoring program and watch you temps.

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Also going PSU route...

Temp on either CPU or GPU would either sound an alarm from mobo (CPU) or cause things to become gittery and freeze. (sound looping a bit before restart or power off).

PSU is good bet for this situation. Dumping of physical memory would result in restart so, not that.

hmmmm well change the psu to an old seasonic 350w (or was it a 400w) ... played bfbc2 for a good session and before pc froze ... suspect that is due to me plugging in all the drives ... so unplugged the 1tb and tried again playing homefront for a hour or 2 with no issues ...

so it seems to be the psu thats the issues ... will do some more stress testing tonight before deciding to take the psu back

thanx for the help guys :)

Glad things are looking up :)