madstork91
The One, The Only...
So Ive had my current build for ~ a year and a half now and since ~ 3 weeks after I bought it while running some graphically intense programs my computer would suddenly crash and restart itself. No... not bug out, not lock up, but literally crash.
I looked into somethings about it but found no real answer. All the components worked great! And my rig's performance is "choice". The crashes do not occur that frequently, but when they do it is a big hassle, and it never crashes just once when it does it. It likes to crash until I let it breathe.
The fact that it needed it's "breathing" time of course led me to believe that it was a heating issue. About a month after I came to the conclusion that it was a heating issue I began to get a whine from my chipset fan. It was quite annoying and the heat on the chipset was a found to be a lil high. I declared that the culprit of my woes and replaced it. A month later I had a crash.
Yeah a month. As you may guess, when I say it doesn't happen often I mean it doesn't happen often.
Finally after all of this I identified it after getting a temp read and looking into something.
My power supply has never made much of a ruckus. In fact... none. I did some feeling around and it doesn't vent air out the back, it seems to suck it in. (my first rig to build... I think that is normal) And it also seems to do so -very- slowly. It could possibly be the slowest fan on my entire tower. Um... is that normal? I checked the temp on the thing after pushing it to make another crash, it was only 39c after i got windows loaded back up. Is that high?
It is by far the hottest thing on my comp.
So... What is a quick cooling solution to this? Buying a new supply is out of the ? at the moment.
I plan on testing the pwr supply being the culprit a lil more... But it seems to be the only thing left atm that could cause this. I am running two 7800gt in SLi for the vid set up. Im sure setting it to just one card might help...
I looked into somethings about it but found no real answer. All the components worked great! And my rig's performance is "choice". The crashes do not occur that frequently, but when they do it is a big hassle, and it never crashes just once when it does it. It likes to crash until I let it breathe.
The fact that it needed it's "breathing" time of course led me to believe that it was a heating issue. About a month after I came to the conclusion that it was a heating issue I began to get a whine from my chipset fan. It was quite annoying and the heat on the chipset was a found to be a lil high. I declared that the culprit of my woes and replaced it. A month later I had a crash.
Yeah a month. As you may guess, when I say it doesn't happen often I mean it doesn't happen often.
Finally after all of this I identified it after getting a temp read and looking into something.
My power supply has never made much of a ruckus. In fact... none. I did some feeling around and it doesn't vent air out the back, it seems to suck it in. (my first rig to build... I think that is normal) And it also seems to do so -very- slowly. It could possibly be the slowest fan on my entire tower. Um... is that normal? I checked the temp on the thing after pushing it to make another crash, it was only 39c after i got windows loaded back up. Is that high?
It is by far the hottest thing on my comp.
So... What is a quick cooling solution to this? Buying a new supply is out of the ? at the moment.
I plan on testing the pwr supply being the culprit a lil more... But it seems to be the only thing left atm that could cause this. I am running two 7800gt in SLi for the vid set up. Im sure setting it to just one card might help...
