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Wondering if anybody can help me with a slight problem that I've recently started having as it's doing my head in.
The system in my sig (Silverstone RV02-E, 3770k, ASRock Z77 OC Formula, EVGA P1000 etc) has recently started turning off randomly, sometimes 30 minutes after being on or sometimes after 2 hours of heavy gaming, and then refuses to turn on again. Nothing new there then! No warnings about excessive temps etc as it's all being monitored. The machine will just hard turn off. No hardware changes at all and no moving around of parts, with the exception of reapplying thermal paste (my temps were high!) and using compressed air to clean out the vents.
Now once the machines turned itself off, the power button will not respond. The part that is doing my head in is that there is a specific way to turn the machine back on .. remove the side panel from the case. Do that and immediately the case will spring into life. Once I've done that, the machine will stay on and functioning even under extreme conditions like stress testing. The PSU is cool to the touch, as well as the exhaust, and all other temps are within the normal ranges (max 65 for the CPU under stress and 70-75 for the 290s in XFire).
So I know that it's going to be an earthing issue but where, or how to insulate the side panel, is slightly tricky as there's not a lot of space to put anything like washers/rubber seals etc. The panel fits onto grooves that are very tight to the fans that are at the bottom of the case and also their mountings that raise them up.
I'm going to be stripping the entire machine at the weekend (fun!) and replacing anything like screws, motherboard mounts, cables etc but wanted to see if anybody else has ideas
The system in my sig (Silverstone RV02-E, 3770k, ASRock Z77 OC Formula, EVGA P1000 etc) has recently started turning off randomly, sometimes 30 minutes after being on or sometimes after 2 hours of heavy gaming, and then refuses to turn on again. Nothing new there then! No warnings about excessive temps etc as it's all being monitored. The machine will just hard turn off. No hardware changes at all and no moving around of parts, with the exception of reapplying thermal paste (my temps were high!) and using compressed air to clean out the vents.
Now once the machines turned itself off, the power button will not respond. The part that is doing my head in is that there is a specific way to turn the machine back on .. remove the side panel from the case. Do that and immediately the case will spring into life. Once I've done that, the machine will stay on and functioning even under extreme conditions like stress testing. The PSU is cool to the touch, as well as the exhaust, and all other temps are within the normal ranges (max 65 for the CPU under stress and 70-75 for the 290s in XFire).
So I know that it's going to be an earthing issue but where, or how to insulate the side panel, is slightly tricky as there's not a lot of space to put anything like washers/rubber seals etc. The panel fits onto grooves that are very tight to the fans that are at the bottom of the case and also their mountings that raise them up.
I'm going to be stripping the entire machine at the weekend (fun!) and replacing anything like screws, motherboard mounts, cables etc but wanted to see if anybody else has ideas
