Hi All,
I'm stumped with a problem on my PC and would greatly appreciate any help.
Three times in the last week, the PC has shut itself down while unattended and idle and refused to power up for a good few minutes.
After the last occasion, I was scouring the web for answers and my display went into 'no-signal' mode. The fans were still going and all the lights on my motherboard and RAM were still lit, but I couldn't even use Splashtop to get onto it, so it was definitely 'dead'. I waited 15 minutes or so to see if it would shut down completely like before, but it did not.
There have been no new components in the PC since before Christmas. My CPU, motherboard, memory and graphics card are all under warranty, but I have no idea which (if any) of them could be the issue. Obviously the PSU is a potential culprit, but I cannot afford to replace it if that's not the problem. I don't think overheating is the issue, as it has always been sitting idle on the windows desktop when it has gone - never while gaming or doing anything else intensive.
Specs:
XFX 850w Black Edition Modular Power Supply
Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Running at stock)
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 Motherboard
Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB RAM
Sapphire Radeon R9 290X
Any advice as to how to proceed would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
DF
I'm stumped with a problem on my PC and would greatly appreciate any help.
Three times in the last week, the PC has shut itself down while unattended and idle and refused to power up for a good few minutes.
After the last occasion, I was scouring the web for answers and my display went into 'no-signal' mode. The fans were still going and all the lights on my motherboard and RAM were still lit, but I couldn't even use Splashtop to get onto it, so it was definitely 'dead'. I waited 15 minutes or so to see if it would shut down completely like before, but it did not.
There have been no new components in the PC since before Christmas. My CPU, motherboard, memory and graphics card are all under warranty, but I have no idea which (if any) of them could be the issue. Obviously the PSU is a potential culprit, but I cannot afford to replace it if that's not the problem. I don't think overheating is the issue, as it has always been sitting idle on the windows desktop when it has gone - never while gaming or doing anything else intensive.
Specs:
XFX 850w Black Edition Modular Power Supply
Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Running at stock)
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 Motherboard
Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB RAM
Sapphire Radeon R9 290X
Any advice as to how to proceed would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
DF
