- Joined
- Sep 29, 2009
- Location
- Seattle, WA
I knew my easy build was too good to be true!
I'm having this really weird problem that I've never experienced before. Tonight I was playing Skyrim like I have been since I finished the build yesterday, then with absolutely no warning, my computer shuts down, as if the power cord had been yanked.
So I tried to isolate the problem. I switched power cords to the one that actually came with the PSU (thicker gauge), and plugged cord straight into the wall and not into my power strip.
That didn't seem to help as I get random shut-downs and reboots. And usually it will try to start 3-4 times and reboot before it finally gets to the desktop. Even then it will sit there for a couple minutes and the just TURN OFF.
I put this in this section because I think that the motherboard might be the cause. It's really the only thing that makes sense to me. After this problem manifested, the on-mobo power and reset switches started not to be constantly lit, also the digital readout on the mobo sometimes doesn't appear.
I followed the advice of some random thread at TT and reseated the cpu with a new application of TIM (though my old one didn't seem too bad). And still, same problem.
Does anyone have any ideas on a possible cause?
I'm having this really weird problem that I've never experienced before. Tonight I was playing Skyrim like I have been since I finished the build yesterday, then with absolutely no warning, my computer shuts down, as if the power cord had been yanked.
So I tried to isolate the problem. I switched power cords to the one that actually came with the PSU (thicker gauge), and plugged cord straight into the wall and not into my power strip.
That didn't seem to help as I get random shut-downs and reboots. And usually it will try to start 3-4 times and reboot before it finally gets to the desktop. Even then it will sit there for a couple minutes and the just TURN OFF.
I put this in this section because I think that the motherboard might be the cause. It's really the only thing that makes sense to me. After this problem manifested, the on-mobo power and reset switches started not to be constantly lit, also the digital readout on the mobo sometimes doesn't appear.
I followed the advice of some random thread at TT and reseated the cpu with a new application of TIM (though my old one didn't seem too bad). And still, same problem.
Does anyone have any ideas on a possible cause?