Random Power-Offs

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Toxcity

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Right, this has only started recently.

Basically, it all started when I turned the PC on and it just turned straight back off. It pretty much turns of right away.

I turn off at the back and reset the CMOS. She boots. I though I had seen the end of that. But now it happened in Windows. Just powers-off. No "Shutting Down" just dies.

It makes no sense because I can player games for AGGGESS and have no issues. But then left idle it dies.

Any ideas?

Cheers. ;)
 
Nope. Completely off. :(

Right, got her going and pretty stable too. Checked all the bios settings, checked the temps and so on.

Decided it was safe to boot. And it turns out the HDD has corrupted. NICEEEE.. :p

Not the end of the world since it is my gaming PC. But I am interested in finding why. Probably because of the random shutdowns.

BUT - could the HDD be the reason? Maybe...
 
Well, not yet. But looks like I may have to.

I shall 0 the drive and reinstall Windows see what happens. And then do some swapping about of HDDs. ;)
 
You can do that but a faulty HDD would cause a blue screen first. A system powering down on it's own is not a HDD related problem.
 
have you any different ram you could chuck in my brother was having his computer shut down without any warning but other times it will run for hours!!
 
I'm not sure how RAM would cause an abrupt shut down though? I may have thought PSU but that can't be possible if a CMOS clear remedied the issue for a while. To me, it sounds like a motherboard fault as very few things will result in such behaviour. I know it doesn't explain why the CMOS reset fixed it for a while but perhaps your motherboard is shorting on something?
 
I may take the machine to bit and reassemble.

As I say it isn't the average hardware failure since I have no issues running anything demanding/Windows. No BSODs no errors nothing.

Been playing RTCW for the best part of an hour and everything is fine. Then suddenly it powers off. IT WAS IDLE FFS! :mad:

Gremlins I guess. :)
 
I basically took all the case sides off and let all the wires hang lose.

So far I have yet to have another random shutdown and she has been running for days.

Maybe Mul. was correct with the shorting? As I did have a nice little gap where I tidied all the cables into. Might have had some sort of magnetic field going or just a short?

Who knows.. seems to be good now. :)

Thanks!
 
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