"The crashes aren't like crashes I've seen before. The monitor(s) lose connection and go into standby mode, and the keyboard and mouse lights go off so i assume they lost power. The case fans and light stay on though which leads me to believe it's a motherboard problem. There are no error messages. I can be doing anything, high or low cpu/gpu usage. I have even been having crashes immediately after the bios screen before win7 even shows up. So far I have tried the win7 memcheck on startup and on taken all pieces out and re-seated them including removing old thermal paste and putting new stuff on as well as updating all drivers.
SPECS:
windows 7 64 bit
ASUS m4a87TD/USB3 motherboard
Phenom II x6 CPU
Hitachi 1TB 7200rpm Hard drive
3x2 gigs of g.skill RAM
Nvidia Geforce gtx 460 GPU
Any help is appreciated and feel free to ask for more information if I have forgotten anything."
"I have tried with 1 and 2 sticks of RAM and I have tried multiple configurations. PSU is rosewill RV2-700"
Posting this for a friend and any help is appreciated!
Thanks!
I'm guessing it's the power supply. To me it seems insufficient for that graphics card. 28A on the 12V rail isn't great.
700W PSU is more than enough for that configuration, though it could be failing.
I would check other components first like the RAM and the hard drive. Deathstars are terrible drives, even after Hitachi took them over.
I have to agree with everyone else here, try replacing the PSU with another one if you have it.
[QUOTE=bohb;34553463]700W PSU is more than enough for that configuration, though it could be failing.
I would check other components first like the RAM and the hard drive. Deathstars are terrible drives, even after Hitachi took them over.[/QUOTE]
Rosewill PSUs are terrible from what I've read.
[QUOTE=I be da best;34554141]Rosewill PSUs are terrible from what I've read.[/QUOTE]
Hardware Secrets did some reviews on several Rosewill PSUs. While they aren't the best, they aren't IEDs either. Some of them can go far beyond their rating while others fail at the ~95% load mark, but at any rate, they're better than those shitty HEC or Logisys PSUs that can barely do 35% of their rated load before burning or exploding.
The reason that some Rosewill PSUs are good and others are duds is because different manufacturers make the different PSU models, which is a shame. Rosewill should stick to one manufacturer for consistency in design.
If you can find a Rosewill at a good price, then I'd recommend getting one, because most users outside of SLi setups don't pull 95% of their PSUs rated load.
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