Ok, just finished building my 1st Mid range gaming Pc....1st few weeks everything worked perfectly fine, but recently i have been getting random restarts when playing games (BF2)
Specs:
Intel Core2Duo E8400 @3.0Ghz 1333Mhz (not overclocked, Stock cooling)
Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3 Intel P43
Mhel 600watt PSU
Kingston Hyper X PC28500 1066Mhz (2x2gb) (running at 800Mhz, auto)
896MB EVGA GTX 260 SSC 55nm, 2304MHz GDDR3, GPU 675 MHz, Shader 1458 MHz, 216 Cores (factory overclocked)
LG GH22NS40 22x DVD±RW OEM drive
500 GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS Caviar Blue, SATA 3Gb/s, 7200rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.9 ms
before i made my purchases made sure everything was compatible, made sure i very good cooling
Antec 300 case (Optional fans, all used up x2 Enermax 120mm twister, 1x 140mm Antec tricool, 1x 120mm antec tricool, 1x 120mm Akasa)
so overheating is out of the way.
-(i left side panel open and tried running a game again, but still occured a random reset)
-(checked CPU Fan/heatsink, was installed correctly)
-(tried some silverartic thermal paste, still no change)
i thought it was the memory.
-(ran modules individually, but same reset happened during gameplay)
-(ran memtest86, no errors)
-(tried reseating RAM modules, still nothing)
-(swapped RAM modules around and changed slots, still nothing)
thought the CPU had failed
-(ran other CPU intensive programs, i.e: 3dmark vantage, 3DMark06, no resets)
-(did some video encoding, no reset)
i thought it was the PSU (since it was an unknown brand i bought 4years ago)
-( tried another PSU from my brothers computer OCZ 650watt, tried gaming again and had the reset)
i then turned to my motherboard
-(checked for swelling of capacitors, non)
-(installed all available motherboard spacers)
i scanned the forums for other threads of build troubles before posting here, but i still can't find a solution.
i have a feeling its something wrong with the motherboard because after the 5th reset, it turned off and on 4times in a row before it posted.
is there any other tests i can carry out to find the source of the problem?
all help would be appreciated
PS: all components are at stock settings apart from the factory overclocked evga GTX 260 GPU, so comments regarding ''getting aftermarket coolers'' is out of the question, i'm a student and can't afford unnecessary expenditures.
Specs:
Intel Core2Duo E8400 @3.0Ghz 1333Mhz (not overclocked, Stock cooling)
Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3 Intel P43
Mhel 600watt PSU
Kingston Hyper X PC28500 1066Mhz (2x2gb) (running at 800Mhz, auto)
896MB EVGA GTX 260 SSC 55nm, 2304MHz GDDR3, GPU 675 MHz, Shader 1458 MHz, 216 Cores (factory overclocked)
LG GH22NS40 22x DVD±RW OEM drive
500 GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS Caviar Blue, SATA 3Gb/s, 7200rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.9 ms
before i made my purchases made sure everything was compatible, made sure i very good cooling
Antec 300 case (Optional fans, all used up x2 Enermax 120mm twister, 1x 140mm Antec tricool, 1x 120mm antec tricool, 1x 120mm Akasa)
so overheating is out of the way.
-(i left side panel open and tried running a game again, but still occured a random reset)
-(checked CPU Fan/heatsink, was installed correctly)
-(tried some silverartic thermal paste, still no change)
i thought it was the memory.
-(ran modules individually, but same reset happened during gameplay)
-(ran memtest86, no errors)
-(tried reseating RAM modules, still nothing)
-(swapped RAM modules around and changed slots, still nothing)
thought the CPU had failed
-(ran other CPU intensive programs, i.e: 3dmark vantage, 3DMark06, no resets)
-(did some video encoding, no reset)
i thought it was the PSU (since it was an unknown brand i bought 4years ago)
-( tried another PSU from my brothers computer OCZ 650watt, tried gaming again and had the reset)
i then turned to my motherboard
-(checked for swelling of capacitors, non)
-(installed all available motherboard spacers)
i scanned the forums for other threads of build troubles before posting here, but i still can't find a solution.
i have a feeling its something wrong with the motherboard because after the 5th reset, it turned off and on 4times in a row before it posted.
is there any other tests i can carry out to find the source of the problem?
all help would be appreciated
PS: all components are at stock settings apart from the factory overclocked evga GTX 260 GPU, so comments regarding ''getting aftermarket coolers'' is out of the question, i'm a student and can't afford unnecessary expenditures.
