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NEED HELP IDENTIFYING PROBLEM

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mhouck

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Hi all,

My system is in my signature. Problem is my system seemed to run fine before I switched my mobo. I will through out this caveat, when I ran 3dmark before switching boards I would hear a "pop" right before initiating each test(this means pop, test 1, pop, test 2, pop, cpu test 1...). This only occured with my 9800 GX2 and the PSU together. I had a 7900 GS while I waited for the 9800 GX2 to show up and did not get the pop.

Now I have recieved the dfi x48 board and can run fear, stream movies from netflix, and run Prime 95 for two hrs before I stopped it (just to see how the system is running not a final stability test). However, when I run 3dmark06 everytime now the system powers off and immediately restarts. No error codes, no blue screen of death, nothing. Just a restart.

Can switching boards (everything still set to stock values) expose a weakness in my power supply? I checked the boards at newegg for this product.
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Could this boards pci-e 2.0 x16 slot pull that much more power to my gpu that is what is changing the "pop" I would hear to a complete system restart?

Please help. I am at my witt's end here. I have complete reformatted my harddrive and reinstalled vista to make sure it's not a leftover driver issue. I have clocked back my cpu, overclocked my cpu, changed voltages on every setting, reseated all my hardware...

Please voice your opinion. Does it sound like the PSU crapping out? a problem with the board? something I'm missing?
 
Audible sounds like that are usually bad caps somewhere I think. I had a EVGA 8800 GTX that did the same thing, though it was a squeal on shutdown. Swapped out the card and no squeal.

Careful asking this question here - I had people telling me it was my PC Power and cooling Silencer 750 here. Not good advice.

Your two most likely culprits are PSU and gfx card. I'd bet it is the gfx card since you notice the noise when it puts a load on the gfx system - though it could also be a power draw issue and hence the PSU.

Swap the PSU first, if it still does it, then swap out the gfx card.

Let us know how it goes.
 
Thanks for the reply TG. I tried switching out my GX2 for my tried and true 7900 GS and obviously it pulled less power underload but it did complete 3dmark. I guess that means I should start an RMA to EVGA.
 
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