mysticarcane
MIS
Set-up
Evga NForce4 SLI mb (NF41)
AMD 64 3500+ Venice
Vanessa L-type cooler
Evga 7800gt 256mb
KuFormula Plus cooler
2GB DDR400
AeroCool 600w PS
Seagate 200GB SATA HD
Win XP Pro SP2
hhm.. let me know if I forgot something important...
So, here is the issue. It randomly shuts down. I tested the voltages from the PS(raw test, no loads on it.. but all voltages showed correct). I upgraded my BIOS to the latest, no problems with that, but it still continued to fail. Ran a Seagate 40gb IDE drive on it.. same issue. Temps all monitor within the normal range for my set-up(a little high, it tends to be warm in the room, but still far in the safe range). Did a full reformat of my System Partition and reinstalled the system, ran newest available drivers. Still crashed randomly. Sent my MB in on an RMA, they approved replacement. Now it runs mostly okay, but still shuts down completely from time to time...
It has shutdown running Oblivion, but never Half-life 2(and I run some pretty heavy mods on it), and never CIV 4 .. which I can tell you by far eats the most resources(commonly utilizes 100% CPU and up to 1.4gb of my RAM, again, I run some pretty advanced mods on it)...
I have to let the MB completely power down and restart. No unusual events in any of the Logs, and it has only once ran a chkdsk at restart.
At this point I am leaning towards it beinga PS issue, despite my tests because of the power reset needed before it will react, since I jsut replaced my MB, I am hesitant to believe I got a DOA with the same problem as my original MB.
Any Ideas? other tests i can run?
Thanks!
Evga NForce4 SLI mb (NF41)
AMD 64 3500+ Venice
Vanessa L-type cooler
Evga 7800gt 256mb
KuFormula Plus cooler
2GB DDR400
AeroCool 600w PS
Seagate 200GB SATA HD
Win XP Pro SP2
hhm.. let me know if I forgot something important...
So, here is the issue. It randomly shuts down. I tested the voltages from the PS(raw test, no loads on it.. but all voltages showed correct). I upgraded my BIOS to the latest, no problems with that, but it still continued to fail. Ran a Seagate 40gb IDE drive on it.. same issue. Temps all monitor within the normal range for my set-up(a little high, it tends to be warm in the room, but still far in the safe range). Did a full reformat of my System Partition and reinstalled the system, ran newest available drivers. Still crashed randomly. Sent my MB in on an RMA, they approved replacement. Now it runs mostly okay, but still shuts down completely from time to time...
It has shutdown running Oblivion, but never Half-life 2(and I run some pretty heavy mods on it), and never CIV 4 .. which I can tell you by far eats the most resources(commonly utilizes 100% CPU and up to 1.4gb of my RAM, again, I run some pretty advanced mods on it)...
I have to let the MB completely power down and restart. No unusual events in any of the Logs, and it has only once ran a chkdsk at restart.
At this point I am leaning towards it beinga PS issue, despite my tests because of the power reset needed before it will react, since I jsut replaced my MB, I am hesitant to believe I got a DOA with the same problem as my original MB.
Any Ideas? other tests i can run?
Thanks!