PC shutting off without warning randomly

#16 DerBear89

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Posted 20 October 2010 - 05:30 PM

DaChew, on 20 October 2010 - 04:14 PM, said:

You need to do something that will crank up the cpu and the vidcard and monitor the voltage and temperature.

So far we are just applying educated guess's or acquired intuition.

http://www.download25.com/install/video-card-stability-test.html

The benchmark feature only takes a few minutes so you need to be quick with the readings.

ok so what does this software do exactly is it an overclocking device?

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Posted 20 October 2010 - 05:42 PM

ok i ran the benchmark device and it came back with these results

video system 295
NVIDIA GeFORCE 8400 41
NVIDIA GeFORCE 7600 195
ATI RADEON HD 2600XT 119
ATI RADEON HD 2400 43
Intel ® 915GM 13

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Posted 20 October 2010 - 05:43 PM

It's not about overclocking but it will run your cpu and vid card intensively which may pull enough power so you can see if the power voltage rails drop?

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Posted 20 October 2010 - 05:49 PM

DaChew, on 20 October 2010 - 05:43 PM, said:

It's not about overclocking but it will run your cpu and vid card intensively which may pull enough power so you can see if the power voltage rails drop?

there was a steady yet slight drop during the benchmark but it never made it out of the green area

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Posted 20 October 2010 - 05:54 PM

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but it never made it out of the green area

Since you have a newer system we may have to raise the bar slightly?

Let's try to devise another test, maybe some others will have an alternative?

This is rocket science, tracing this kind of problem down.

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