Hello everyone, here to ask for some help with this, please.. I've been trying to figure this out myself reading and all, but have come to a dead end.
Pc specs:
I can be on internet (chrome, firefox) watching anime, movies, you name it, with multiple tabs, and haven't encountered with any trouble at all, except for that flash game wich is kinda resource heavy, other than that, for simple tasks it runs fine.
Fans keep running, keyboard leds do turn off, haven't really flipped the mouse over to see if it lost power since everytime this happens I just go angry and reset it.. Its just looks like it shuts to hibernation or something (Power management options are set to not do this).
I'm not a heavy gamer, mostly play League of Legends (under lowest settings), on windowed mode. On photoshop I do some heavy work wich requires a little more usage.
The machine ran fine, played many games wich could run with my poor GT520 back then, then I just stopped that 'heavy gaming' and sticked to League/HoTS.. W/o encountering any trouble.
First I thought it was an overheat problem, did some monitoring with HWinfo, SpeedFan and Asrock O.C Tuner, speedfan and HWinfo show the temps at 46° on idle for the CPU and 37° for the MoBo. O.C Tuner, shows 45° on the CPU and 37° on the Mobo..
Under gaming, league, on windowed, CPU goes to 55-56°, haven't really tried another game since im waiting for a new card.
All this was monitored after replacing thermal paste and blowing dust off. (I regularly clean the pc dust every 2-3 weeks)
Im really confused about this, could this be the motherboard dying?? or is this a PSU failure??.. Been reading a lot about this but I can't find something that points me the direction I should go on testing.
It all started from 2 weeks for now, the motherboard isn't even 1 yr old. I ordered a brand new PSU (EVGA W1 500w 80+) and a brand new Gtx 750Ti SC card, so im pretty dissappointed that I can't install those, they might damage or something from all the shutdowns..
I appreciate some help, its driving me nuts already
Pc specs:
- CPU: Phenom II X4 955BE 3.2 Ghz
- Mobo: ASRock 960GM-VGS3 FX (Bought this one thinking about upgrading to a FX processor)
- RAM: 4 GB DDR3 1333, single stick
- HDD: 500 GB Samsung, 7200rpm
- Video: EVGA GT 520, now running the integrated ATI.
- Case: Generic Case 2x 80mm Fans for airflow, in and out.
- PSU: Omega 800w (Generic non certified) has a really big fan too.
- Screen: 32 inch Panasonic Viera TV, wich I used on HDMI.
- OS: Windows 7 Ultimate - 64 Bits
- Most of the components are 4-5 yrs old, except the motherboard wich I bought in replacement of my old MSI mother board that died last year.
I can be on internet (chrome, firefox) watching anime, movies, you name it, with multiple tabs, and haven't encountered with any trouble at all, except for that flash game wich is kinda resource heavy, other than that, for simple tasks it runs fine.
Fans keep running, keyboard leds do turn off, haven't really flipped the mouse over to see if it lost power since everytime this happens I just go angry and reset it.. Its just looks like it shuts to hibernation or something (Power management options are set to not do this).
I'm not a heavy gamer, mostly play League of Legends (under lowest settings), on windowed mode. On photoshop I do some heavy work wich requires a little more usage.
The machine ran fine, played many games wich could run with my poor GT520 back then, then I just stopped that 'heavy gaming' and sticked to League/HoTS.. W/o encountering any trouble.
First I thought it was an overheat problem, did some monitoring with HWinfo, SpeedFan and Asrock O.C Tuner, speedfan and HWinfo show the temps at 46° on idle for the CPU and 37° for the MoBo. O.C Tuner, shows 45° on the CPU and 37° on the Mobo..
Under gaming, league, on windowed, CPU goes to 55-56°, haven't really tried another game since im waiting for a new card.
All this was monitored after replacing thermal paste and blowing dust off. (I regularly clean the pc dust every 2-3 weeks)
Im really confused about this, could this be the motherboard dying?? or is this a PSU failure??.. Been reading a lot about this but I can't find something that points me the direction I should go on testing.
It all started from 2 weeks for now, the motherboard isn't even 1 yr old. I ordered a brand new PSU (EVGA W1 500w 80+) and a brand new Gtx 750Ti SC card, so im pretty dissappointed that I can't install those, they might damage or something from all the shutdowns..
I appreciate some help, its driving me nuts already
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