Possible Psu Issue? Help please

Kev12344

Kev12344

Kev12344

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Hi,

I've bought the Titan Goliath system from Overclockers about 6 weeks ago. Until now the system has been 100% fine.

I've had a couple of weird issues with it today. Firstly when I attempted to boot the system from cold, it got stuck on the windows vista scroll bar screen, just before the account log on screen.

It kind of just hung and it had to be reset.

While the PC was reset, the power just seemed to go on it. The blue power lights and hard drive lights on the case went out and I heard the fans stop. Before I could press the power button again, the power came back on by itself and the full pc booted as normal.

I've since done a full chkdsk on the hard drive which came back fine.

Anyone got any ideas of what it could be. I'm a bit worried in case I go to turn the PC on in the morning from cold and it either does not turn on, or the psu goes bang.

Anyone any advice or help they could offer, it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers :)
 
Make sure everything is inserted correctly (gfx, ram etc).
Check temps.
Download memtest86 and check if any errors pop up.
Stress the system to 100% load with software such as OCCT.
 
Right,

I have had the case side off and have checked all wiring is in correctly. Everything seems to be fine (gfx, ram cooler).

Computer has been on since the disk check around 12 hours ago.

Had a look in the bios and again, temps are at idle what they would normally be.

I'll check memtest86 out and OCCT.

Thanks for the reply mate, its appreciated.

Hope its nothing major, hope its just a glitch.
 
I had a feeling it might be hard drive related.

Thing is its not showing any errors, now in the grand scheme of things, this means nothing as we all know computer hardware can work one minute and not work the next.

Problem I have is its most likely either the hard drive or the psu. Now both are working properly and so far showing no errors, it would be unlikely that OCUK would allow me to send back the components, possibly for them to test and be fine when they come to test them.

I wouldn't want to have to send the full pc back to them as its been fine up till now, its kind of a last resort thing.

All the power going is kind of puzzling. Usually if a hard drive is fully at fault, at least the pc doens't lose all its power, but just refuses to boot windows. You can usually still access the bios.

If the psu goes, I'll not be able to access anything.

I'll maybe buy another hard drive and test that out, see if that cures it. Thing is now I'll be worried about using the hard drive I got with the system in case it loses all my data.

Thanks for the reply mate, its appreciated.
 
I actually have a similar issue with my pc, though I can't tangibly see anything wrong with it.

If the mains wall switch has been turned off or I unplug my pc (effectively cutting all power) When I come to switching my pc on after switching the mains back on or plugging back in, the system will start up and immediately lose all power, then start up fine again and be right as rain.

If I leave it plugged in with the mains on then it never has this issue, as if upon a fully cold boot my psu chokes on the initial required power. I feel it might be overclock related for me, as I have a highly clocked core and overclocked graphics, though I am unsure whether your system is overclocked too. Try dropping the clock to stock and give that a go mate.

Best of luck.
 
Ritsugamesh said:
If the mains wall switch has been turned off or I unplug my pc (effectively cutting all power) When I come to switching my pc on after switching the mains back on or plugging back in, the system will start up and immediately lose all power, then start up fine again and be right as rain
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This isnt an issue, dont worry, most new computers do this, nothing to worry about
I very much doubt a 6 week old PC is starting to fail either, either HDD which is normally guaranteed for 3 years or a Corsair PSU certified for 100000 hrs, the fact it got stuck whilst loading windows once really isnt something I'd be too worried about, much more likely to be a windows bug than a hardware issue
 
Thanks for all the comments guys, it appreciated. :)

Tested the system today and its shown no errors.

95thrifles - Yeah your right, the hard drive would be guaranteed for 3 years and the Corsair Psu I think has a 5 year warranty.

Its not the fact it got stuck loading windows once that is the problem, I know Vista can be quite buggy. I've not got around to installing the Windows 7 Upgrade yet.

Its more to do with the power just cutting out entirely that I am worried about.

Something like this person is suffering here.

http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=81770

I'm hoping it just a little glitch though, cause the PC's build quality and everything else from OCUK has been first rate.

Cheers again for the replies guys.:)
 
Is it powering off randomly?
Or is it just doing the thing from cold boot? Where it spins stop and starts again? If latter really dont worry, if first then yeah panick :eek:
 
95thrifles - Its powered off randomly twice now.

Its been fine since Monday, when I done all the tests and checked the wiring and things like that.

The random problem I had with the cold boot has not returned either. I'm more worried in case the Psu is showing early signs of a problem though.

Its not doing it all the time and 99% of the time the pc seems fine. It doesn't show the problem often. Its only happened twice, but with no explanation as to why, well I'm keeping my eye on it.
 
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