I'm at a loss. I recently had my own computer built by my father about four months ago, but he's no longer with us.
My computer has been having many problems although I've only had it approximately four months. I don't know much about them myself, so I've come to ask the community here.
Recently I've had problems with my computer shutting down without warning. Whenever I turn it back on it boots normally as of nothing ever happened. A couple of weeks ago, my dad had thought it may have been the power supply and that we were pushing it to the limits so he removed one of my graphics cards. It worked just fine for a little over a week and it's back at it again however, this time when it shuts down it won't boot back up for several minutes. Pressing the power button sometimes turns it on for a few seconds and the lights immediately go back out. When I finally do get it back on (this time around) it tells me that windows has shut down improperly and asks how I wish to proceed. Sometimes after I boot it up, even sitting idly will kill it..
I've done some searching around and it seems to me that it may either be my power supply being insufficient or overheating. I'm getting very stressed out because I've put so much into this (in my opinion) and it's breaking down on me and even more upsetting because I don't have the knowledge to fix it. ■
I'm not 100% sure on my parts because I'm not at the house right now but I've got
AMD 8 core, 3.6GHz processor
GeForce GTX 550 ti, only one. Previously running an SLI setup
I can't remember the name of the motherboard
The power supply is 550Watts. It was one that was recommended for the case I bought..
I believe my mother board has a built in fan, my graphics card does, and I have like three case fans. One larger one on the side and two smaller ones in the back. I didn't think temperature would be a problem..
That's all I know.
Hopefully with your help, I can resolve this issue. Many thanks in advance.
My computer has been having many problems although I've only had it approximately four months. I don't know much about them myself, so I've come to ask the community here.
Recently I've had problems with my computer shutting down without warning. Whenever I turn it back on it boots normally as of nothing ever happened. A couple of weeks ago, my dad had thought it may have been the power supply and that we were pushing it to the limits so he removed one of my graphics cards. It worked just fine for a little over a week and it's back at it again however, this time when it shuts down it won't boot back up for several minutes. Pressing the power button sometimes turns it on for a few seconds and the lights immediately go back out. When I finally do get it back on (this time around) it tells me that windows has shut down improperly and asks how I wish to proceed. Sometimes after I boot it up, even sitting idly will kill it..
I've done some searching around and it seems to me that it may either be my power supply being insufficient or overheating. I'm getting very stressed out because I've put so much into this (in my opinion) and it's breaking down on me and even more upsetting because I don't have the knowledge to fix it. ■
I'm not 100% sure on my parts because I'm not at the house right now but I've got
AMD 8 core, 3.6GHz processor
GeForce GTX 550 ti, only one. Previously running an SLI setup
I can't remember the name of the motherboard
The power supply is 550Watts. It was one that was recommended for the case I bought..
I believe my mother board has a built in fan, my graphics card does, and I have like three case fans. One larger one on the side and two smaller ones in the back. I didn't think temperature would be a problem..
That's all I know.
Hopefully with your help, I can resolve this issue. Many thanks in advance.