Power Supply or Video Card?

Setek · **Joined:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:27 pm **Posts:** 206

Machine restarts or shuts down (usually shuts down) whenever anything graphics intensive starts. My machine will be on hours and is quite fine until I start running a game and it may still be fine until something graphics intensive occurs and it just goes. My specs are in my sig if anyone wants to know to query I have a generic PSU but its been running the same card fine for hhhmm perhaps almost a year now give or take.

apoppin · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 12:58 am

Which PSU?

Can you test with another one? Do you have IG on your Intel CPU? What happens when you launch something graphics intensive without using your discrete card?

Setek · **Joined:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:27 pm **Posts:** 206

apoppin wrote:

Which PSU?

Can you test with another one? Do you have IG on your Intel CPU? What happens when you launch something graphics intensive without using your discrete card?

Generic 600 Watt PSU (the one it has been running fine on for a while now) I also tried it with another Generic 650 Watt PSU same issue. What is IG? I have an Intel i5 CPU its all in my sig below, when I run something graphics intensive on my on board video card it runs just fine.

jaydip · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 3:14 am

Seems Like a dying PSU to me?Setek what is the 12V rating of the pSU?

dmcowen674 · **Joined:** Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:30 am **Posts:** 4934

Setek wrote:

Machine restarts or shuts down (usually shuts down) whenever anything graphics intensive starts. My machine will be on hours and is quite fine until I start running a game and it may still be fine until something graphics intensive occurs and it just goes. My specs are in my sig if anyone wants to know to query I have a generic PSU but its been running the same card fine for hhhmm perhaps almost a year now give or take.

Something getting hot when you go into high video mode is what it sounds like.

What is your cooling like?

Setek · **Joined:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:27 pm **Posts:** 206

jaydip wrote:

Seems Like a dying PSU to me?Setek what is the 12V rating of the pSU?

The PSU that was in there has 36A on the +12V I would have to pull down the machine to see what is running on the one inside it now.

dmcowen674 wrote:

Setek wrote:

Machine restarts or shuts down (usually shuts down) whenever anything graphics intensive starts. My machine will be on hours and is quite fine until I start running a game and it may still be fine until something graphics intensive occurs and it just goes. My specs are in my sig if anyone wants to know to query I have a generic PSU but its been running the same card fine for hhhmm perhaps almost a year now give or take.

Something getting hot when you go into high video mode is what it sounds like.

What is your cooling like?

Stock cooling but now that you mentioned that I had lost the ability to control my fan speed from the Catalyst for a while now I thought it was just a driver issue but it could be that the fan is gone.

dmcowen674 · **Joined:** Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:30 am **Posts:** 4934

Setek wrote:

Stock cooling but now that you mentioned that I had lost the ability to control my fan speed from the Catalyst for a while now I thought it was just a driver issue but it could be that the fan is gone.

That will do it.

New fan will solve the problem.

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