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System Name | Haz0 |
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Processor | i7-2700K |
Motherboard | Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 |
Cooling | Chicken Stock |
Memory | 16GB G.Skill Ripshits X 1600MHz |
Video Card(s) | Sapphire 5850 |
Storage | Kingston 128GB SSD + WD Black 640GB + 2x 1.5TB |
Display(s) | 24" Acer G245HQ + 19" Lenovo L194 |
Case | Antec NSK-4482 Orangified |
Audio Device(s) | X-Fi XtremeGamer |
Power Supply | Corsair TX750W |
Software | Windows 7: Electric Boogaloo |
About a week ago I rescued the lonely hull of a custom PC from the landfill at a flea market for $2.
From that I got...
- 3GHz Pentium D dual-core CPU with stock cooler
- Asus P5B-VM SE
- Antec Minuet 300 & 300W Antec slim PSU
- 80mm Antec Tri-Cool fan
- 512MB Corsair DDR2 400MHz
Then I...
- Added a spare 640GB 7200.12
- Replaced the memory with 2GB DDR2 400 from a Dell I have
- Added a SATA optical disc drive
The drive had a pre-existing Win7 install from the Dell it was in, so I hooked it up into the rig and ran that install. Everything worked alright, but it was randomly shutting off. I thought it was from mismatched drivers, so I wiped the drive and installed Win7 so it would match up with the new hardware.
Now that it has a clean install with the proper drivers, it is still shutting off. Sometimes it can be used for an hour with no problem, other times it shuts off 3 times or more before it can even fully boot up. Each time it's like someone is yanking the power cable out of it.
I wiggled the computer around while it was running, with no result. That shows that it's most likely not a loose cable. One thing that tends to set it off is installing Windows updates. Almost every time I click "install updates" and it starts doing it's thing, it dies.
So there are a lot of different things I could try. I'm thinking of moving the guts to my little mATX test bench with another PSU to see if that case is causing a short or that slim PSU is messing up.
What else could I do to get this thing running right? I'd like to get it up for sale soon.
Thanks.
From that I got...
- 3GHz Pentium D dual-core CPU with stock cooler
- Asus P5B-VM SE
- Antec Minuet 300 & 300W Antec slim PSU
- 80mm Antec Tri-Cool fan
- 512MB Corsair DDR2 400MHz
Then I...
- Added a spare 640GB 7200.12
- Replaced the memory with 2GB DDR2 400 from a Dell I have
- Added a SATA optical disc drive
Now that it has a clean install with the proper drivers, it is still shutting off. Sometimes it can be used for an hour with no problem, other times it shuts off 3 times or more before it can even fully boot up. Each time it's like someone is yanking the power cable out of it.
I wiggled the computer around while it was running, with no result. That shows that it's most likely not a loose cable. One thing that tends to set it off is installing Windows updates. Almost every time I click "install updates" and it starts doing it's thing, it dies.
So there are a lot of different things I could try. I'm thinking of moving the guts to my little mATX test bench with another PSU to see if that case is causing a short or that slim PSU is messing up.
What else could I do to get this thing running right? I'd like to get it up for sale soon.
Thanks.