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Hello all,

 

I assembled my computer last August, and everything's been working splendidly up until from earlier this month. I even managed to install Mac OS X on it, and it worked lovelily with a Windows 8.1 & os x dual boot.

 

PROBLEM: My computer, since last month, keeps randomly restarting. I have tried to pin it down to faulty software or a faulty hard drive, but it happens on both OS X and 8.1, and the software I have open at that time, obviously, do not matter. There is no pattern to the restarts. Sometimes, it will restart right after I boot up, and sometimes, the system will be rock solid, running for 3-4 days straight.

 

My PC parts are here: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3vAQ6

 

The only reason I have a 1000W PSU is because I want to get another graphics card in the near future, and the 850W version was out of supply when I purchased this.

 

Any help with this will be helpful. If, as I fear, it is a PSU problem, how do I troubleshoot a faulty PSU?

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Hello all,

 

I assembled my computer last August, and everything's been working splendidly up until from earlier this month. I even managed to install Mac OS X on it, and it worked lovelily with a Windows 8.1 & os x dual boot.

 

PROBLEM: My computer, since last month, keeps randomly restarting. I have tried to pin it down to faulty software or a faulty hard drive, but it happens on both OS X and 8.1, and the software I have open at that time, obviously, do not matter. There is no pattern to the restarts. Sometimes, it will restart right after I boot up, and sometimes, the system will be rock solid, running for 3-4 days straight.

 

My PC parts are here: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3vAQ6

 

The only reason I have a 1000W PSU is because I want to get another graphics card in the near future, and the 850W version was out of supply when I purchased this.

 

Any help with this will be helpful. If, as I fear, it is a PSU problem, how do I troubleshoot a faulty PSU?

india has frequent brownlouts or blackouts, are you sure that one of those isnt the issue. As with most psus  there is undervolt protection so the pc should turn off, trying turning a light on and experiment.

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india has frequent brownlouts or blackouts, are you sure that one of those isnt the issue. As with most psus  there is undervolt protection so the pc should turn off, trying turning a light on and experiment.

 

I was hoping it'd be a brownout. I tried hooking it up to a UPS, which should regulate any power fluctuations, and even with that installed, the computer randomly restarted.

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