I had to build a new rig after a toasty graphics card seemed to do funny things to my previous build (this was back in October 2016), however in the past week or so I've had a strange issue where the PC has twice lost power entirely, but with no warning or obvious hardware issue.
ASUS Strix X99 Gaming motherboard 0401 UEFI BIOS
I7-6850K (non-overclocked)
32Gb Corsair White LED DDR4, running at 3000Mhz (XMP on)
Noctua NH-U12S cooler
ASUS Strix 1070 GPU
Samsung 850 Pro 500Gb SSD (SATA)
Samsung SM951 256Gb (M.2, PCIE)
The platter HDD in the machine is rather noisy and it's the most obvious thing I hear losing power when it does so, so as a test I've removed this and am running with just the M.2 drive (system) and SATA SSD (games/programs) as the platter drive - a 4TB WD Black - was purely for online backups and longer term storage.
The PSU seems absolutely fine (Corsair HX1000i) as far as I can tell, and there are no obvious signs/smells of something burning or overheating in the machine. I do not have the Corsair-Link software installed but I don't know if that would make a difference or not.
Aside from running it off a UPS to confirm it's not line power dropping, is there anything else I could do to diagnose anything specific? The extension it's plugged into is surge protected, but both times it's lost power I haven't actually checked to see if the protection light is out or is still active.
Cheers,
Fuzz
ASUS Strix X99 Gaming motherboard 0401 UEFI BIOS
I7-6850K (non-overclocked)
32Gb Corsair White LED DDR4, running at 3000Mhz (XMP on)
Noctua NH-U12S cooler
ASUS Strix 1070 GPU
Samsung 850 Pro 500Gb SSD (SATA)
Samsung SM951 256Gb (M.2, PCIE)
The platter HDD in the machine is rather noisy and it's the most obvious thing I hear losing power when it does so, so as a test I've removed this and am running with just the M.2 drive (system) and SATA SSD (games/programs) as the platter drive - a 4TB WD Black - was purely for online backups and longer term storage.
The PSU seems absolutely fine (Corsair HX1000i) as far as I can tell, and there are no obvious signs/smells of something burning or overheating in the machine. I do not have the Corsair-Link software installed but I don't know if that would make a difference or not.
Aside from running it off a UPS to confirm it's not line power dropping, is there anything else I could do to diagnose anything specific? The extension it's plugged into is surge protected, but both times it's lost power I haven't actually checked to see if the protection light is out or is still active.
Cheers,
Fuzz
