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I am going to be troubleshooting what is causing my cousin's computer to shutdown randomly. Just looking for good ways to troubleshoot and what would most likely be causing it. Right now my main suspect is the PSU, but I am still not 100% on that.
Specs:
Intel E5200 @ 2.5GHz no OC
ASUS P5E x38 MB
8800 GTS 512 w/ HR-03 cooler no OC
OCZ 600W PSU
4GB of DDR2 OCZ Ram 800MHz no OC
WD 640GB Black HDD
Windows Vista 64-bit
The computer only shuts down when he was playing Age of Empires 3. Really the only game he plays, so I can't say if that game was the only one causing. Could be anywhere from 5 minutes to a couple hours before it happened. I did do a few searches to see if it was just the game. I got a few hits (4500 on google), but it could just be people only playing that game at that time. I would find it odd if it was just AoE3 causing this too...
Trouble shooting that I have done so far. I ran both ORTHOS and Furmark at the same on the computer for 30 minutes trying to see any over heating or if the computer crashed. I figured this was one of the most intensive test I could put on the computer. Nothing happened either. GPU reported a temp of 75 *C max and CPU reported 50 *C max. Going to do a gaming session to see if anything happens next. VGA drivers are up to date.
After running both ORTHOS and Furmark I am convinced there is not a heat issue at the moment anyway. I did not see any of the snow effect on the furmark rendering to show if the VGA was dying. If the system does stop randomly on me I'll throw in my PSU from my computer to see if the problem persists.
Thoughts?
Specs:
Intel E5200 @ 2.5GHz no OC
ASUS P5E x38 MB
8800 GTS 512 w/ HR-03 cooler no OC
OCZ 600W PSU
4GB of DDR2 OCZ Ram 800MHz no OC
WD 640GB Black HDD
Windows Vista 64-bit
The computer only shuts down when he was playing Age of Empires 3. Really the only game he plays, so I can't say if that game was the only one causing. Could be anywhere from 5 minutes to a couple hours before it happened. I did do a few searches to see if it was just the game. I got a few hits (4500 on google), but it could just be people only playing that game at that time. I would find it odd if it was just AoE3 causing this too...
Trouble shooting that I have done so far. I ran both ORTHOS and Furmark at the same on the computer for 30 minutes trying to see any over heating or if the computer crashed. I figured this was one of the most intensive test I could put on the computer. Nothing happened either. GPU reported a temp of 75 *C max and CPU reported 50 *C max. Going to do a gaming session to see if anything happens next. VGA drivers are up to date.
After running both ORTHOS and Furmark I am convinced there is not a heat issue at the moment anyway. I did not see any of the snow effect on the furmark rendering to show if the VGA was dying. If the system does stop randomly on me I'll throw in my PSU from my computer to see if the problem persists.
Thoughts?
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