Hi,
I am having an increasingly frustrating issue with my PC. Essentially, during gaming (most notably Assetto Corsa, though others have triggered it aswell!), the power dies completely. The power buttons wont work to turn it back on. When it does eventually fire up again, normally once completely cooled down etc., i notice that the date and time remain as they were when it died (i.e. several hours behind current time).
Troubleshooting so far
Does anyone have any ideas, or other troubleshooting tips?
System details;
Gigabyte H55M-UD2H
Intel i5 650 @ 3.2GHz
Nvidia GeForce GTS 450
Thanks in advance
Steve
I am having an increasingly frustrating issue with my PC. Essentially, during gaming (most notably Assetto Corsa, though others have triggered it aswell!), the power dies completely. The power buttons wont work to turn it back on. When it does eventually fire up again, normally once completely cooled down etc., i notice that the date and time remain as they were when it died (i.e. several hours behind current time).
Troubleshooting so far
- I replaced the battery on the motherboard - that got it to kick back in to life the first time, but has made no difference since
- i thought the CPU might be running hot (i noticed that the PC was running slow, like it was being throttled). Sure enough, Speedfan tells me the temperatures were in the high 70s/low 80s (this for a CPU which apparently has a maximum temperature of 72 degrees - see https://safetemp.blogspot.com/2016/06/intel-core-i5-650-max-temp.html). I decided to remove the heatsink and give it a clean, and whilst at it replaced the thermal compound, which immediately brought the temperature back to a sensible level. But still, the PC kept crashing during gaming.
- but, when remounting the heatsink one of the plastic push pins holding it in place snapped, meaning a not quite perfect fit. Within a few months, i was back seeing similar temperatures to previously and then, during a heatwave a few weeks back, the PC shut off (as per the symptoms above) whilst browsing the internet (not under load). I decided to install a new cpu fan (this one with screws) which has dropped the temperatures to a perfect range. I've been running a burn in test on the intel diagnostic tool for the last few hours, and saw a max temperature of 64 degrees - so i think this has worked. But, despite that, it still shuts off during gaming.
- i read around this forum and found others suggesting this sounded like a PSU issue (such as https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/pc-randomly-shutting-off.3498715/). That sounded logical, and my previous PSU had a pretty poor rating online. I replaced with a corsair vs550. Lo and behold, running a test yesterday and it shut down once again.
Does anyone have any ideas, or other troubleshooting tips?
System details;
Gigabyte H55M-UD2H
Intel i5 650 @ 3.2GHz
Nvidia GeForce GTS 450
Thanks in advance
Steve