Computer shuts down few minutes after startup.

[purplekaycee]

This started a few days ago and initially I pulled out two sticks of RAM when initially it would boot up and not bring up any signal on the monitor. Now it boots up but when I start a game or plug in my external drive it shuts down after only a few minutes.
The computer stays on when I use it for movie watching. Any ideas?

 

[theFOoL]

What's the Power Supply? A loose connection to the 24-pin connector? A bad Power Supply? Re-Insert the memory.

 

[purplekaycee]

Its a 500w aero cool PSU

 

[eidairaman1]

Its a 500w aero cool PSU

Get openhardwaremonitor and have it running in an overlay keep eye on temps. If temps are high replace thermal compound on cpu, reseat cooler, add fans to vrms as last resort.
Clean your case and all fans of dust. Aerocool makes good cases but their PSUs lack in the power delivery department. If after cleaning your case it still fails, get a better psu from seasonic, enermax, antec.

 

[Caring1]

Graphics card sounds suspect to me.
Try connecting directly to onboard graphics and testing, after removing the discrete GPU.

 

[John Naylor]

Any messages in event viewer ?

Using HWiNFO to log temps and volts ... run RoG Real bench or H264 watch COU temps / voltages before crash ... if not try Furmark which will monoitor the GPU all by itself.

 

[jsfitz54]

I suspect PSU. So use: https://www.hwinfo.com/download.php

To look at 12v, 5v and 3.3v

Plenty of posts here on TPU with regards to proper voltage.

 

[purplekaycee]

Graphics card sounds suspect to me.
Try connecting directly to onboard graphics and testing, after removing the discrete GPU.

It switches off even when I transfer files on to the desktop from my external hard drive.

 

[EsaT]

Its a 500w aero cool PSU

That's better called as Aero-Crap.
They spend more money on fancy looks than components inside.


Crashing after some time under load could be caused by some kind overheating of something.
While with GPU assist video playback doesn't cause much load, plugging in external drive causes even less of load.
Though USB stuff adds to 5V load, so maybe that could be struggling.
Anyway software readings can be unrealiable and should be considered as maybe somewhere near actual value accurate.
And certainly can never show more insidious potential problem of ripple.

Though almost any part of PC starting to fail could cause problems.
I guess PC in question is one in your system specs?
If that Aero-Crap is as old I wouldn't trust it least bit to be anymore reliable.

 

[Athlonite]

It switches off even when I transfer files on to the desktop from my external hard drive.

If it's doing it then it's the PSU replace it with a descent brand

 

[Jetster]

heat or bad voltage would be the first culprit

 

[Deleted member 67555]

I agree it's likely a PSU issue but it's also worth replacing SATA cables and reseating the GFX, CPU etc... cleaning and all that other fun stuff first just to be sure.

 

[purplekaycee]

I agree it's likely a PSU issue but it's also worth replacing SATA cables and reseating the GFX, CPU etc... cleaning and all that other fun stuff first just to be sure.

Would replace the PSU. And get back with info on how it went