Way back in 2011 I ordered this bundle from Overclockers:
Radon P67 600i Intel 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.60GHz DDR3 Overclocked Bundle
Which was a Asus P8P67 mobo + RAM, 2500K CPU, and what I think was a Corsair A50 air cooler + fan.
Alongside the above at the moment is a 650W Corsair power supply and two ATI Radeon 7950 cards, 2 SSDs of differing sizes, one 3TB HDD and an old Soundblaster X-Fi of one kind or another.
It's served me incredibly well but over time has acquired a quirk. It used to power off then immediately back on at some point pre or just during POST. This to me was harmless, it booted fine after that and was rock solid.
Since I got it I've replaced the graphics card a few times, and am now running the above mentioned 7950's in crossfire. Since installing the second graphics card there's a bigger problem. The rough sequence of events on power on is now consistently:
1) Power on, during post power off, may or may not immediately power back on.
2) During windows logo powers off, does not power back on.
3) I switch it back on, normal boot (possibly involving chkdsk) and then up and running.
The system is still incredibly stable and doesn't crash once windows is up and running.
Although I'm fairly good with PCs such hardware issues are a bit outside my field of expertise. My first thought was wear and tear on capacitors or power draw during boot. I've monitored how many Watts it draws during power on, post and windows boot and it's quite within my PSU spec even accounting for its age, it doesn't appear to spike significantly as windows loads (maybe another 20watts or so) and it peaks at 160-230watts during boot off the top of my head. Once logged in and running windows for non gaming tasks it's in the mid 200-300watt range. Running a game like The Witcher 3 draws around 400-500watts but never into the 500's.
Does anyone here have any advice for diagnosing this. It'd be nice to fix it so I can keep the PC running as a had me down; however I am looking to upgrade anyway so if the advice is that the motherboard is shot or whatever I'll just upgrade sooner rather than later.
This situation only concerns me now because of power loss during OS load which I'm pretty sure is not good for my SSDs life span!
Thanks,
Paul
Radon P67 600i Intel 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.60GHz DDR3 Overclocked Bundle
Which was a Asus P8P67 mobo + RAM, 2500K CPU, and what I think was a Corsair A50 air cooler + fan.
Alongside the above at the moment is a 650W Corsair power supply and two ATI Radeon 7950 cards, 2 SSDs of differing sizes, one 3TB HDD and an old Soundblaster X-Fi of one kind or another.
It's served me incredibly well but over time has acquired a quirk. It used to power off then immediately back on at some point pre or just during POST. This to me was harmless, it booted fine after that and was rock solid.
Since I got it I've replaced the graphics card a few times, and am now running the above mentioned 7950's in crossfire. Since installing the second graphics card there's a bigger problem. The rough sequence of events on power on is now consistently:
1) Power on, during post power off, may or may not immediately power back on.
2) During windows logo powers off, does not power back on.
3) I switch it back on, normal boot (possibly involving chkdsk) and then up and running.
The system is still incredibly stable and doesn't crash once windows is up and running.
Although I'm fairly good with PCs such hardware issues are a bit outside my field of expertise. My first thought was wear and tear on capacitors or power draw during boot. I've monitored how many Watts it draws during power on, post and windows boot and it's quite within my PSU spec even accounting for its age, it doesn't appear to spike significantly as windows loads (maybe another 20watts or so) and it peaks at 160-230watts during boot off the top of my head. Once logged in and running windows for non gaming tasks it's in the mid 200-300watt range. Running a game like The Witcher 3 draws around 400-500watts but never into the 500's.
Does anyone here have any advice for diagnosing this. It'd be nice to fix it so I can keep the PC running as a had me down; however I am looking to upgrade anyway so if the advice is that the motherboard is shot or whatever I'll just upgrade sooner rather than later.
This situation only concerns me now because of power loss during OS load which I'm pretty sure is not good for my SSDs life span!
Thanks,
Paul
