Hi Guys,
For the last few weeks my pc keeps shutting down or totally freezing but mainly shutting down. My temps are fine. CPU (athlon64 3200+) ranges from 37-43C even after playing 3 hours of BF2. My system temp hardly goes over 22C
My Gfx card is a Chaintech Apogee 6800 with unlocked pipelines. I also have an old Gf3 Ti200 which is in the comp at present. The fault still happens with this card albeit not as often so that rules out my 6800 Could be PSU
As for power supply I have a generic 550W which provides 11.712-11.840v on the +12v, 4.99 on the +5v, 3.392 on the +3v and 1.438 for the VCore. This psu is only a year old. I don't know if those results are any good!
I've taken a 512M stick of ram out leaving just 512M in. Since doing this I haven't crashed/froze/turned off for 3 hours so far. Both sticks of ram are crucial pc3200 and less than 5 months old. Tomorrow I'm getting 1G (2x512) Giel pc3200 ram. Would removing 1 stick of ram use less power?
I'm at my witts end I hope someone can shed some light on this for me.
Thanks in advance
System spec:-
Athlon64 3200+
Chaintech Apogee 6800 (unlocked pipelines)
Asus A8V Deluxe
2 x 80G Western Digital HD's
1G crucial pc3200, 1G Giel pc3200
SB Live 5.1 + LiveDrive2
Pioneer DVD+-R/RW
Samsung 40X CDRW
Winfast PVR tv card
550W PSU
2 x 80mm led fans.
BTW Tomorrow my bro is going to lend me a spare PSU to help rule it out hopefully It's only a 300W psu but never used. I think it will be ok for a couple of days for testing purposes won't it?
For the last few weeks my pc keeps shutting down or totally freezing but mainly shutting down. My temps are fine. CPU (athlon64 3200+) ranges from 37-43C even after playing 3 hours of BF2. My system temp hardly goes over 22C
My Gfx card is a Chaintech Apogee 6800 with unlocked pipelines. I also have an old Gf3 Ti200 which is in the comp at present. The fault still happens with this card albeit not as often so that rules out my 6800 Could be PSU
As for power supply I have a generic 550W which provides 11.712-11.840v on the +12v, 4.99 on the +5v, 3.392 on the +3v and 1.438 for the VCore. This psu is only a year old. I don't know if those results are any good!
I've taken a 512M stick of ram out leaving just 512M in. Since doing this I haven't crashed/froze/turned off for 3 hours so far. Both sticks of ram are crucial pc3200 and less than 5 months old. Tomorrow I'm getting 1G (2x512) Giel pc3200 ram. Would removing 1 stick of ram use less power?
I'm at my witts end I hope someone can shed some light on this for me.
Thanks in advance
System spec:-
Athlon64 3200+
Chaintech Apogee 6800 (unlocked pipelines)
Asus A8V Deluxe
2 x 80G Western Digital HD's
1G crucial pc3200, 1G Giel pc3200
SB Live 5.1 + LiveDrive2
Pioneer DVD+-R/RW
Samsung 40X CDRW
Winfast PVR tv card
550W PSU
2 x 80mm led fans.
BTW Tomorrow my bro is going to lend me a spare PSU to help rule it out hopefully It's only a 300W psu but never used. I think it will be ok for a couple of days for testing purposes won't it?
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