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Random Power Off's

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elyoflik

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I have an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (939) with a 3500+. My power supply is an Enermax Noisetaker 470W. Also I use an APC UPS 770W. I purchased all of these slightly over a year ago. When I first got the system I had some problems of it randomly shutting down. But it never did that when I was around so I never saw it. I replaced the power supply and although that didn't solve the problem, it slowly went away. I've recently noticed it happening again, but I have been around to see it. The power in the rest of my apartment will be fine, I will hear my speakers buzz for a minute then the whole system just powers off suddenly. I have a friend who worked for APC and he ran me through all the tests for my battery backup and it works properly. So now the only thing I can figure is it must be my motherboard. There doesn't seem to be any actions in particular that seem to lead to this happening. Actually typically it happens when I am not even using my computer, or maybe just watching a video, and it happens randomly at no set intervals. It doesn't seem to be doing any immediate damage to my system although I am concerned about long term effects. Any assistance on how I might troubleshoot this or correct this would be greatly appreciated because I have no idea. Thank you.
 
This could be related to the settings in bios for system protection.
If you have a fan set at a sorta low rpm and then shut down the system.
For any reason if that fan slows to that point, the system will shut down just as though you pressed the shut down button.
This could also be due to a temperature problem.
Or if you have a senser set to shut down the system at a certain temp.
Maybe that senser gets to that temp and shutts down the system.
This area would be the first place I would look.
 
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