• Sorting out my PC for good.
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I should start by saying I'm technically inept so bear with me. Ive had this rig for 4 years and its served me well Quad Core, 4gb of RAM and a high end graphics card, a year or two ago it started playing up, i was playing Just Cause 2 and it just shut off, not shut down or crashed, the power just went and i couldn't turn it on for about 10 minutes, this was the first time it happened so i decided to ignore it at the time as a 'one off'. It started getting worse, the frequency in which it kept shutting off in this way got more and more until i could hardly open i tunes without it shutting off. I tried everything thing i could think of to try and solve this problem (considering i am shit with anything technical) i thought it might be an overheating problem so i cleaned out the whole case of any dust and made sure all the fans were fine. Didn't work. Tried virus scans. Didn't work. Someone suggested that i try taking a look at the CPU to check everything was clean there and that my thermal paste hadn't evaporated, so i replaced the thermal paste and what do you know? Didn't work. I gave in and let some IT technicians look at it, they seemed to think the problem was my cpu wasn't 'Slotted in properly' and assured me everything would work perfectly now. It actually worked fine for a while i booted up spotify and decided to install Crysis....Holy shit, as soon as it got to the intro cinematic the pc just started howling! the fans were spinning furiously, there was a horrible electrical crackling sound and eventually a subtle scent of burning plastic AAAAND it shut off again. I'm at a loss, i have a feeling leaving the CPU not properly inserted or whatever might have damaged it for good. Facepunch, what do you think? TELL ME WHAT TO DO! :( [editline]10th November 2011[/editline] Sorry mods, delete this, making a new thread in Technical support.
If the CPU wasn't Inserted properly then it wouldnt have booted up. Sounds like a bad PSU and possibly motherboard.
[QUOTE=Zerokateo;33213519]If the CPU wasn't Inserted properly then it wouldnt have booted up.[/QUOTE] This part of this post is correct. The rest not so much. To me it sounds more like a heat issue - when was the last time you got all the dust out of your computer?
Shutting down under loads and the smell of burnt plastic after that really sounds like a power supply failure.
[QUOTE=Zerokateo;33213519]If the CPU wasn't Inserted properly then it wouldnt have booted up. Sounds like a bad mobo, psu, and CPU, I'd just rePlace everything.[/QUOTE] I'd recommend ignoring his post and getting a new PSU.
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;33237698']I'd recommend ignoring his post and getting a new PSU.[/QUOTE] I agree with you, I have no idea what I was thinking when I posted that.
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