- Apr 30, 2014
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Yeah, this one.
Long story short. My PC kicked it 9 months ago (it just wouldn't power up anymore), and life events prevented me from rebuilding.
While I've been hiding in my bunker I was going to rebuild, but with parts scarce I decided to just scavenge a new build and install my old drives cleaning out and replacing drivers (yeah, I know it should have been a clean install, but it isn't. I hate to do that twice in the same year.)
As a result it's the best of what I have still functioning. Except I get these unexpected shutdowns.
They're never while I'm at the computer, so I don't know what happens. The ONLY event log entry is when I boot notifying me of the unexpected shutdown (which I figured out on my own): The previous system shutdown at 11:31:20 AM on 5/20/2020 was unexpected.
There's no other log entries at the time of the actual event. Nada. Zip. When Windows boots it doesn't offer safe mode or scans or anything. It just boots normally... which you wouldn't think would happen if it was just a bzzzt-off.
Everything I'm using was in the working system or the one that failed.
From the failed system I'm using:
The HDDs... which I've been using plugged into another PC for the past 9 months.
RAM which passes MemTest86+ cleanly
Videocard: Untestested. (Edit: Furmarked for 10 minutes. Seems okay.)
PSU: Don't even know how to test.
The rest is from the PC I'd been using for the past few months. I'd swap out the PSU as a test, except my only other functioning one is too low wattage unless I pull the video card. and use the APU graphics.
I'm assuming the problem is the power supply, just because I've nearly run out of any other ideas.
Can a PSU act like this and would it be such an eventless shutdown?
Long story short. My PC kicked it 9 months ago (it just wouldn't power up anymore), and life events prevented me from rebuilding.
While I've been hiding in my bunker I was going to rebuild, but with parts scarce I decided to just scavenge a new build and install my old drives cleaning out and replacing drivers (yeah, I know it should have been a clean install, but it isn't. I hate to do that twice in the same year.)
As a result it's the best of what I have still functioning. Except I get these unexpected shutdowns.
They're never while I'm at the computer, so I don't know what happens. The ONLY event log entry is when I boot notifying me of the unexpected shutdown (which I figured out on my own): The previous system shutdown at 11:31:20 AM on 5/20/2020 was unexpected.
There's no other log entries at the time of the actual event. Nada. Zip. When Windows boots it doesn't offer safe mode or scans or anything. It just boots normally... which you wouldn't think would happen if it was just a bzzzt-off.
Everything I'm using was in the working system or the one that failed.
From the failed system I'm using:
The HDDs... which I've been using plugged into another PC for the past 9 months.
RAM which passes MemTest86+ cleanly
Videocard: Untestested. (Edit: Furmarked for 10 minutes. Seems okay.)
PSU: Don't even know how to test.
The rest is from the PC I'd been using for the past few months. I'd swap out the PSU as a test, except my only other functioning one is too low wattage unless I pull the video card. and use the APU graphics.
I'm assuming the problem is the power supply, just because I've nearly run out of any other ideas.
Can a PSU act like this and would it be such an eventless shutdown?
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