PSU Dying?

[Shamrock]

Are these symptoms that my psu is packing in or is there another explanation?

The graphics card doesn't power on most of the time, but the rest of the computer boots fine, there's just no display. Only way round it is to keep booting until it randomly decides to turn on.

The computer has started randomly powering off.

I have to run at stock speeds because overclocking now causes the computer to power off as soon as you save the bios.

Thanks.

 

[Steves_pc]

Sounds quite likely your 12v line is dropping at boot time as well as other issues cuasing the pc to randomly shut off, try disconnecting your hdd's just before you next goto switch on, if it posts ok then theres a good chance you have your answer, if it makes no difference then theres a chance it's the board.

About the best guess anyway not knowing what your running

 

[Shamrock]

It could be the board?

Specs are:

E6300 1.86Ghz
Gigabyte DS3 965P
2 gig ram
x1800xt
audigy 2
420w seasonic psu
3 hdds
1 dvd-rw

Cheers.

 

[Steves_pc]

It could be the board?
Cheers.

Only a very slight chance, a good board but you never know 100%

Anyways try disconnecting them hdd's and see if it posts ok, if that changes nothing try another gfx if you have one - even if its an old pci job.

Other than that try running memtest to check your memory or orthos to stress the cpu and generate some load, I'd say if its going to flop it'll do it on orthos and that'll most likely be the psu.

Seasonics are good psu's but age plays a part with psu's especially if its been powering that bunch of hdd's and an oc'd 6300, i reckon you've been running it near it's max, How old is the psu?

 

[Shamrock]

Got the computer in september 06.

Orthos didn't seem to do anything despite running it for a while, then I played a game for about 5 mins and the computer powered off.

Once again it refused to display anything on boot.

It does display every time if I remove all 3 hdd's. This is obviously not ideal! I guess I'll have to fork out for one.

This one is meant to be good right?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-005-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=823