I built a new system a few months ago and put a Toughpower 700W PSU in it along with 3 HDs a DVD drive a dual core intel and an 8800GTS video card and a sound card. System has been running like a champ with zero problems.
Well I came home a couple weeks ago and it wouldn't boot. Nothing would happen when I hit the power buton. So after tinkering with it for awhile I gave up and just left it unplugged and went to bed. I woke up the next morning, plugged it in and it booted right up. Ran with zero problems for a couple hours before I shut it down.
Then a couple nights later it just shut itself off. Total power loss. It wouldn't restart. I figured I would try the unplug thing and let it sit for awhile. Let it sit for an hour and it worked great until I shut it down.
This has basically been the order of things since it started happening. With the holidays and work I haven't had a chance to tear everything apart. I did swap out the power cord just to make sure it wasn't the issue. The problem still occurs. I am going to try a few things tomorrow if I can get it to shut itself back down.
1. Unhook all power cables except for the MB cable and see if it will power up.
2. get a multimeter and unhook the MB as well and try the paperclip test.
3. Put a different PSU in to test it.
Anyone have a similar experience? It makes me really wonder what could cause a problem like this. I did a few searches here and on google and didn't read any problems exactly like this.
Well I came home a couple weeks ago and it wouldn't boot. Nothing would happen when I hit the power buton. So after tinkering with it for awhile I gave up and just left it unplugged and went to bed. I woke up the next morning, plugged it in and it booted right up. Ran with zero problems for a couple hours before I shut it down.
Then a couple nights later it just shut itself off. Total power loss. It wouldn't restart. I figured I would try the unplug thing and let it sit for awhile. Let it sit for an hour and it worked great until I shut it down.
This has basically been the order of things since it started happening. With the holidays and work I haven't had a chance to tear everything apart. I did swap out the power cord just to make sure it wasn't the issue. The problem still occurs. I am going to try a few things tomorrow if I can get it to shut itself back down.
1. Unhook all power cables except for the MB cable and see if it will power up.
2. get a multimeter and unhook the MB as well and try the paperclip test.
3. Put a different PSU in to test it.
Anyone have a similar experience? It makes me really wonder what could cause a problem like this. I did a few searches here and on google and didn't read any problems exactly like this.
