SLI problem?

hellblizzard

hellblizzard

hellblizzard

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I have been running my new system for about a month now with n problems until yesterday. It suddenly shut down in the middle of a game, I thought it was just a power surge or something as the weather wasnt the best at the time, but then it didnt turn back on properly, the power LEDs were on but it wasnt booting and no fans were running.

I tried reseting the CMOS which did nothing so the next thing I tried was to disconnect the SLI and power from one card, then the system worked, and when I plugged the second card in again it worked fine.

This happened again earlier today about 5 seconds into boot, it just turned off again and I needed to disconnect one card to get it working again.

What could this problem be?

System specs:

P7P55D-Evo
Intel Core I5 760
OCZ Reaper 4GB DDR3 Dual Chan
2x Palit GTX 460 768MB
500GB HDD
bla bla...rest unimportant.

Any help is appreciated.
 
I can think of 2 reasons why a PC would do as you describe.

1: The PSU cannot supply enough juice, shuts itself down for self preservation.

2: The connector on the 12V auxillary lead is burned, the plug and socket both get ruined.
 
To me it sounds like your pc is shutting down to prevent it from failing. It could be getting too hot. Just a thought..
 
Akasa Freedom 750W modular.
Nothing is overheating, max CPU temp ever is was 66, max GPU was 70, I have temp monitors on always.

I always forget about the PSU, oops xD, was thinking about the case and blu ray drive when I said unimportant, PSU slipped my mind
 
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