Hopefully someone here can help me out or get me headed in the right direction with my PC. Let me know if this should be posted in another section. I just figured that it's a Multi Processor system, so here seemed to make sense??
I have a HP xw6200 WorkStation with dual Intel Xeon 3.60 GHz processors, a Nvidia Quatro FX 1800, a Samsung 128GB SSD for my OS drive and a 500GB WD spinner for the programs drive. It has 8GB of DDR2 PC2-3200 memory running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit in a Cooler Master case. My desktop PC in my signature.
I put the PC together about a year ago and it's run like a charm, up until about a month ago. The PC normally runs 24/7 but about a month ago I started randomly finding that the PC was off. At first I didn't think too much of it, just figured that it did some updates and didn't restart correctly or we briefly lost power at home, etc. But it happened more and more and eventually I had it power off while I was using it.
It seems to run at idle without issues. But when transferring data to my server, scanning the PC, running multiple programs, etc it will shut down. My first thought was that it was dusty inside and during these tasks it was overheating. So I opened it up and cleaned it out real good. It wasn't really dusty, but figured I'd still clean anything that I found. I used a shop vac with the hose switched around so it can be used as a blower. I also checked in BIOS and nothing seems strange there (I can post screen shots if necessary).
I also just installed Speed Fan and HWMonitor and attached screen shots below. The screen shots were taken when using the PC to scan for new media to transfer to my server, an IE session with multiple tabs open, an open PowerPoint slide and watching a video in VLC.
I also listed a handful of things that I've done below.
Removed additional SATA port card
Disconnected DVD drive
Checked for blown capacitors
Ran malware bytes scan (PC shut down during scan)
The WD HD passed HD DPS test & error checking
Checked the OS SSD with SSD Life (results are attached below)
I did a system restore back to mid June
There aren't any errors in device manager
All 4 fans (2 on the heat sinks and 2 case fans) are running
The PC will boot up, run for a while and then shut down seemingly when under a decent load. I did recently adjust the virtual memory to a custom size 8191MB as the initial and 14336MB as the max. Not sure if that would effect anything??
I'm still going to try to remove each of the 4 memory sticks one by one and see how it runs. And I can switch out the video card (the motherboard doesn't have any onboard video, so I'll have to temporarily put another card in there).
Hopefully that's a decent explanation of what's going on and what I've done so far. Thanks in advance.
And the SSD Life info.
I have a HP xw6200 WorkStation with dual Intel Xeon 3.60 GHz processors, a Nvidia Quatro FX 1800, a Samsung 128GB SSD for my OS drive and a 500GB WD spinner for the programs drive. It has 8GB of DDR2 PC2-3200 memory running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit in a Cooler Master case. My desktop PC in my signature.
I put the PC together about a year ago and it's run like a charm, up until about a month ago. The PC normally runs 24/7 but about a month ago I started randomly finding that the PC was off. At first I didn't think too much of it, just figured that it did some updates and didn't restart correctly or we briefly lost power at home, etc. But it happened more and more and eventually I had it power off while I was using it.
It seems to run at idle without issues. But when transferring data to my server, scanning the PC, running multiple programs, etc it will shut down. My first thought was that it was dusty inside and during these tasks it was overheating. So I opened it up and cleaned it out real good. It wasn't really dusty, but figured I'd still clean anything that I found. I used a shop vac with the hose switched around so it can be used as a blower. I also checked in BIOS and nothing seems strange there (I can post screen shots if necessary).
I also just installed Speed Fan and HWMonitor and attached screen shots below. The screen shots were taken when using the PC to scan for new media to transfer to my server, an IE session with multiple tabs open, an open PowerPoint slide and watching a video in VLC.
I also listed a handful of things that I've done below.
Removed additional SATA port card
Disconnected DVD drive
Checked for blown capacitors
Ran malware bytes scan (PC shut down during scan)
The WD HD passed HD DPS test & error checking
Checked the OS SSD with SSD Life (results are attached below)
I did a system restore back to mid June
There aren't any errors in device manager
All 4 fans (2 on the heat sinks and 2 case fans) are running
The PC will boot up, run for a while and then shut down seemingly when under a decent load. I did recently adjust the virtual memory to a custom size 8191MB as the initial and 14336MB as the max. Not sure if that would effect anything??
I'm still going to try to remove each of the 4 memory sticks one by one and see how it runs. And I can switch out the video card (the motherboard doesn't have any onboard video, so I'll have to temporarily put another card in there).
Hopefully that's a decent explanation of what's going on and what I've done so far. Thanks in advance.
And the SSD Life info.
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