PC Crashing

Danger Phoenix · 19 Aug 2007 at 09:55

I leave my PC on 24/7, and since yesterday it has been crashing. I turn the monitor off and go to sleep, and when I wake up it has frozen and need to be reset.

This problem started two days ago, since I added a 4th hard disk... so could this be a problem? Problem with power or something?

Even then, why does it happen at night, and not during the day when I am actually using it?

Danger Phoenix · 19 Aug 2007 at 11:17

System has been overclocked for the past 2 months, without a single problem.

I only added the hard disk in on Friday, and since then it has been crashing during the night!

I have an Enermax 500W PSU

Danger Phoenix · 20 Aug 2007 at 13:01

I figured it out... I re-arranged my power connections so that the load was shared more evenly over the cables coming out of the PSU. Everything is stable now

Danger Phoenix · 20 Aug 2007 at 22:59

Hmm... it still hasn't fixed it

I was watching a video and the PC froze

Danger Phoenix · 1 Sep 2007 at 23:34

Alright... the problem is still happening, especially when I have other USB devices connections, so I used this:

http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

It tells me I need a 497W PSU, and after a little bit of checking, I have the Enermax EG465P-VE which is around 450W.

No wonder my system keeps messing up... what new PSUs do you guys recommend?

Danger Phoenix · 2 Sep 2007 at 10:15

How accurate would you say that Extreme Calculator is? If that is right, a 520W won't be enough when I add another HDD

Danger Phoenix · 4 Sep 2007 at 13:20

Danger Phoenix said:
How accurate would you say that Extreme Calculator is? If that is right, a 520W won't be enough when I add another HDD

Anyone?

I am currently running the following with a Enermax 450W PSU:

1 x Opteron 165 overclocked to 2.7Ghz (no increase in voltage)
2 x 512MB PC3200 RAM Modules
1 x ATI X1900XTX (not overclocked)
1 x Audigy 2 PCI Card
1 x DVD-RW
4 x Western Digital SATA Drives
1 x Fan Controller powering Front, CPU and Rear Fans

Do you think the crashes are caused by the PSU, or just Windows messing up? I plan to reinstall XP in the next week or so before I go back to University, or I am thinking of upgrading to Vista (will try it out on a separate partition soon, to make sure all my components and major softwares work)