This computer's been completely flawless for two years. Up until roughly 19 hours ago.
The PC had been off all day, I fired it up, and was just stretching my arm to turn the monitor on, when I suddenly hear all the fans and the HDD die. Surprised, I look at my case, and see that the "PWR" light is still on. After about a second, it starts by it's own again.
I've now shutten down and started the PC again about 30 times, out of pure paranoia, without any odd results.
I changed my case from a case of a prebuilt PC I originally built the PC in, to a BitFenix Shinobi about 4 days ago, but I doubt it's because of that, unless the motherboard somehow gets short-circuited by it, but then it'd be pretty dead by now. :v: .
I've concluded that this was caused by either the motherboard, or the PSU. Yesterday I ran Prime95 and Furmark at the same time for about an hour, so had it been the PSU, I feel it should've gotten knee'd at 100% CPU and GPU usage, albeit the PC doesn't draw nearly enough power for that to be conclusive.
I simply want an answer stating what the probable cause is, and if things like this can happen without it really meaning anything, as I don't want to worry about my PSU suddenly dying and taking half the PC with it.
What kind of motherboard do you have? Sounds similar to how Asus's Memok! works. It boots and if it notices something wrong with the ram it will turn itself off and on trying different settings in order for the ram to work.
Rapid power cycling a computer causes extreme amounts of wear on the hard drive. If you want to frequently power cycle the computer for testing, keep the hard drive (and any other drives) unplugged.
I've had drives get killed from rapid power cycling, which is not fun.
[QUOTE=Frankiscool!;34554321]What kind of motherboard do you have? Sounds similar to how Asus's Memok! works. It boots and if it notices something wrong with the ram it will turn itself off and on trying different settings in order for the ram to work.[/QUOTE]
Gigabyte P55 UD3
Check power cables are connected properly. If they are then you could have a dead PSU, RAM, CPU or motherboard.
[QUOTE=SataniX;34556682]Check power cables are connected properly. If they are then you could have a dead PSU, RAM, CPU or motherboard.[/QUOTE]
I may have been unclear in the OP, but anyway, this only happened once. It's been perfectly fine for several days (and reboots) now.
[QUOTE=RixxzIV;34557742]I may have been unclear in the OP, but anyway, this only happened once. It's been perfectly fine for several days (and reboots) now.[/QUOTE]
Probably a one off glitch.
[editline]6th February 2012[/editline]
also could have been a brownout
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