help much wierdness

MikeB · 29 Sep 2015 at 19:05

Built a PC from 2nd hand parts, built many over the years and having the following issues

Originally the board would fire up and refuse to cycle, by moving the graphic card it would boot and all was hunky dory, then randomly same symptoms, move the card back to original slot and all is hunky dory.

This has worked for a few days but now its decided to randomly power off full stop, my thoughts are PSU or Motherboard fault or both, any idea's on how to narrow this down?

mickyflinn · 29 Sep 2015 at 19:36

Can you get your hands on another psu without buying.

MikeB · 29 Sep 2015 at 20:17

by completely taking apart my one (The dodgy one is my sons), then again having random cut outs with my own as well, both recently went to windows 10, wonder if that is another factor

mickyflinn · 29 Sep 2015 at 21:41

MikeB said:
by completely taking apart my one (The dodgy one is my sons), then again having random cut outs with my own as well, both recently went to windows 10, wonder if that is another factor

Intresting , go back to previous operating system and see what happens.

MikeB · 30 Sep 2015 at 07:49

nightmare

, from experience it strikes me as hardware fault on sons kit, no idea how to isolate what it is though

TWiNKLeT0Es · 30 Sep 2015 at 09:13

What make and model is the board and GPU?

Have you checked for BIOS updates / compatibility?

MikeB · 30 Sep 2015 at 09:57

its a g87 zoc with a 7950 in it, tried two diff 7950 same result.
Guess I can look at bios, will require complete reinstall from 8.1 though due to MS insane policy with bios update on windows 10

MikeB · 30 Sep 2015 at 12:22

suprised the forum geniuses havent flooded me with suggestions

Lee · 30 Sep 2015 at 12:38

Try using a live Linux distribution for a while to see if the problem persists. If it does, then that implies hardware issue of some sort, if not then a Windows problem.

Colzy · 1 Oct 2015 at 13:05

MikeB said:
suprised the forum geniuses havent flooded me with suggestions

Power issues perhaps? It would be helpful if you provide the full spec of the system. Also, try reseating things and checking everything is in properly, as its odd it would wokr a bit, and now not.

Presumably you know what was working before the rebuild so that would help pinpoint it too.

MikeB · 2 Oct 2015 at 19:14

it was all more or less new (2nd hard stuff) apart from the PSU

Bigger issue is its so sporadic, works one min, not the next, redone thermal paste, rebuilt outside the case, tried with diff psu and original one and seems stable for now, makes me recall fondly why i moved to consoles only a few years ago