Shutting down after 45mins (ish)

[Jim_Ow]

Hello there,

I'm after a bit of advise really. I have a Packard Bell Ixtreme and it keeps powering down while Im playing a game. It's as if the power has been pulled straight out, I can some times hear sound (I can keep talking on skype) and sometimes the last thing I heard just loops over and over.

I at first thought it was an over heating problem, so I got EVGA Precision and it told me that it was at 50c at idle, and then it would shoot up when gaming.

I took the side of my case of and the problem hasn't happened since .. obviously I dont want to keep the side of my case off so is there anything I could do? There's no fans on the back of the case, only the fan cooling the CPU and another the graphics card.

I can't keep the side of because of dust etc so what's the best thing to do? I thought about buying another case but I doubt the Packard Bell parts would be transferable.

Help!
Thanks,

Jimow.

 

[Jim_Ow]

I had a problem like this with my scaleo T a few years ago.It was about 2 years old at the time and under warranty.It turned out to pe the thermal paste on the cpu/heatsink needed to be renewed this might not be the case for you just what was causeing it for me.When you take the side off have a good look around the cpu fan for dust it can clog up quiet fast in there.

Thanks for all the replies, I have cleaned it out - Thourougly, the machine is less than a year old so I'll get in contact with PB.

 

[Jim_Ow]

Then case is good only for passively cooled low end graphics card and power efficient dual core CPU.
That's unless it has stronger intake fan for positive pressure cooling.

No intake fan as far as I can see. The problem still persists, Im going to do the heat tests on the machine now.

There's also certain points in game where I can guarantee it will crash, I can have the side of the PC off and it will definately do it .. I wouldn't call the parts particularly visually heavy.

I will get a list of the spec now ..

 

[Jim_Ow]

"Type: Blend - stress CPU and RAM Min: 8 Max: 4096 InPlace: No Mem: 3837 Time: 15
14/09/2009 18:41 Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer.
Press Stop to end this test.
Test 1, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922945 using 1024K FFT length.
Test 2, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922943 using 1024K FFT length.
Test 3, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19374367 using 1024K FFT length.
Torture Test ran 18 minutes 55 seconds - 0 errors, 0 warnings.
Execution halted."

"14/09/2009 18:41 Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer.
Press Stop to end this test.
Test 1, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922945 using 1024K FFT length.
Test 2, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922943 using 1024K FFT length.
Test 3, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19374367 using 1024K FFT length.
Test 4, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19174369 using 1024K FFT length.
Test 5, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M18874369 using 1024K FFT length.
Self-test 1024K passed!
Test 1, 800000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M172031 using 8K FFT length.
Torture Test ran 19 minutes 1 seconds - 0 errors, 0 warnings.
Execution halted."

"14/09/2009 18:41 Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer.
Press Stop to end this test.
Test 1, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922945 using 1024K FFT length.
Test 2, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922943 using 1024K FFT length.
Test 3, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19374367 using 1024K FFT length.
Test 4, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19174369 using 1024K FFT length.
Test 5, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M18874369 using 1024K FFT length.
Test 6, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M18874367 using 1024K FFT length.
Self-test 1024K passed!
Test 1, 800000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M172031 using 8K FFT length.
Torture Test ran 18 minutes 32 seconds - 0 errors, 0 warnings.
Execution halted."


The results from the CPU Stress test, mean nothing to me - but maybe someone else can decipher it?