So I built a nice new PC a couple of weeks ago and everything was hunky dorey.
Intel Q6600 with stock cooler
Gigabyte EP43C-DS3 motherboard
4 GB of DDR2 RAM
Radeon HD 4870 1Gig (XFX)
600W PSU (Enermax Noisetaker EG701AX-VE 600w I believe, but I can't check - read on for why)
Then, after about ten days where everything seemed pretty stable and what issues there were could be put down to driver updates I got a failure to POST. I got a series of continuous short beeps my mobo manual tells me is indicative of a power supply failure. I unplugged and plugged in all the devices one by one and no change. I tried an old X800 card with much lower power needs, all to no avail.
Figuring it really wasn't the PSU (it booted another machine fine and my issues persisted regardless of what power I was drawing) I thought it must be the mobo itself.
Then I tried the machine again that evening and it booted fine. Shut it down at the end of the night thinking the whole thing must be down to some loose connection or overlooked idiocy on my part.
Next morning, same again. Power failure. Went through the whole test cycle again but to no end. Sometimes now, more sinister, not beeping at all and just going into endless restarts.
Didn't touch it yesterday and this morning, it booted fine. I can't check the exact PSU serial because I'd need to power off to see the label, it's hidden against a case wall.
Both times when its booted after repeated failures it recognises there is an issue and asks if I want to use last known good BIOS settings, which I agree to. I haven't had access to the BIOS in the interim and I haven't done anything fancier than changing boot order yet (there has been no overclocking) so I don't think the issue is there.
I have run Crysis totally maxed out previously too, so I'd have thought if there was a heat or some other stress issue it would have come out already.
If it wasn't intermittent I'd be much happier.
Any thoughts? I'm probably going to have to spend money I know, but do I spend it on a PSU or on a motherboard or just bottles of whisky? My wife is adamant she's not touched it.
Intel Q6600 with stock cooler
Gigabyte EP43C-DS3 motherboard
4 GB of DDR2 RAM
Radeon HD 4870 1Gig (XFX)
600W PSU (Enermax Noisetaker EG701AX-VE 600w I believe, but I can't check - read on for why)
Then, after about ten days where everything seemed pretty stable and what issues there were could be put down to driver updates I got a failure to POST. I got a series of continuous short beeps my mobo manual tells me is indicative of a power supply failure. I unplugged and plugged in all the devices one by one and no change. I tried an old X800 card with much lower power needs, all to no avail.
Figuring it really wasn't the PSU (it booted another machine fine and my issues persisted regardless of what power I was drawing) I thought it must be the mobo itself.
Then I tried the machine again that evening and it booted fine. Shut it down at the end of the night thinking the whole thing must be down to some loose connection or overlooked idiocy on my part.
Next morning, same again. Power failure. Went through the whole test cycle again but to no end. Sometimes now, more sinister, not beeping at all and just going into endless restarts.
Didn't touch it yesterday and this morning, it booted fine. I can't check the exact PSU serial because I'd need to power off to see the label, it's hidden against a case wall.
Both times when its booted after repeated failures it recognises there is an issue and asks if I want to use last known good BIOS settings, which I agree to. I haven't had access to the BIOS in the interim and I haven't done anything fancier than changing boot order yet (there has been no overclocking) so I don't think the issue is there.
I have run Crysis totally maxed out previously too, so I'd have thought if there was a heat or some other stress issue it would have come out already.
If it wasn't intermittent I'd be much happier.
Any thoughts? I'm probably going to have to spend money I know, but do I spend it on a PSU or on a motherboard or just bottles of whisky? My wife is adamant she's not touched it.
