Protentual PSU Problem!

[LucasM]

Hello one and all. Thanks for clicking! Please note that my PC knowledge is very limited as i haven't really kept up with whats going on in the PC community.

 

My PC has a strange problem - It will randomly lose power, and then reboot, when playing some games such as ETS2, FS17 etc, but will be fine when player other games such as ArmA 3 or Minecraft. Sometimes it will simply randomly cut out when i'm working in MS Word. I've done some research and trouble shooting and i believe i've narrowed it down to my PSU.

 

My specs are:

ASRock H97 Pro4

i7 4790k

GTX 960

16GB DDR3

256SSD

Bog standared 1TB hard drive

750 Watt EVGA PSU

 

Dose anyone know what the problem might be. I am thinking of replacing the PSU with a Corsair VS550w, but now i know it's a 750w, i'm a bit scared too.

 

So far:

-I've played around in the BIOS with overheating settings for the CPU, and turned turbo boost off - which helped for around three hours

-I've looked into weather or not my graphics card is pulling too much power - i don't think it is

-I've changed the power supply cable (From the wall to the PSU) - did nothing

-Cried in the corner wishing i could play EST2 for more than 10 minutes at a time.

 

To be honest, I've only just got round to trying to get this fixed recently due to time constraints, but now I've got more free time i want to upgrade my setup and play a little more.

 

Any recommendations for fixed will be tried out as soon as i can, and if anyone can recommend a new PSU (If that is the problem) it will be greatly appropriated.

 

Thank you so much for your time, I've missed playing games and really want to get back into gaming.

 

Kind Regards,

 

~Lucas

 

 

[Br3tt96]

Does  sound like a power supply related issue. You don't have a warranty for the EVGA psu?

[Firewrath9]

19 minutes ago, LucasM said:

Hello one and all. Thanks for clicking! Please note that my PC knowledge is very limited as i haven't really kept up with whats going on in the PC community.

 

My PC has a strange problem - It will randomly lose power, and then reboot, when playing some games such as ETS2, FS17 etc, but will be fine when player other games such as ArmA 3 or Minecraft. Sometimes it will simply randomly cut out when i'm working in MS Word. I've done some research and trouble shooting and i believe i've narrowed it down to my PSU.

 

My specs are:

ASRock H97 Pro4

i7 4790k

GTX 960

16GB DDR3

256SSD

Bog standared 1TB hard drive

750 Watt EVGA PSU

 

Dose anyone know what the problem might be. I am thinking of replacing the PSU with a Corsair VS550w, but now i know it's a 750w, i'm a bit scared too.

 

So far:

-I've played around in the BIOS with overheating settings for the CPU, and turned turbo boost off - which helped for around three hours

-I've looked into weather or not my graphics card is pulling too much power - i don't think it is

-I've changed the power supply cable (From the wall to the PSU) - did nothing

-Cried in the corner wishing i could play EST2 for more than 10 minutes at a time.

 

To be honest, I've only just got round to trying to get this fixed recently due to time constraints, but now I've got more free time i want to upgrade my setup and play a little more.

 

Any recommendations for fixed will be tried out as soon as i can, and if anyone can recommend a new PSU (If that is the problem) it will be greatly appropriated.

 

Thank you so much for your time, I've missed playing games and really want to get back into gaming.

 

Kind Regards,

 

~Lucas

 

 

a TX750m is only 70$ rn and is 80+ gold and tier 1 on the psu tier list.

[LucasM]

17 minutes ago, Br3tt96 said:

Does  sound like a power supply related issue. You don't have a warranty for the EVGA psu?

PC around three years old now. Don't think i have any of the paper work at all for any of it 

[Br3tt96]

3 minutes ago, LucasM said:

PC around three years old now. Don't think i have any of the paper work at all for any of it 

They do it by serial number, and you can make the date up. Did that with a bent to hell 780ti and they took it no questions asked. 

[ki8aras]

1 hour ago, LucasM said:

Hello one and all. Thanks for clicking! Please note that my PC knowledge is very limited as i haven't really kept up with whats going on in the PC community.

 

My PC has a strange problem - It will randomly lose power, and then reboot, when playing some games such as ETS2, FS17 etc, but will be fine when player other games such as ArmA 3 or Minecraft. Sometimes it will simply randomly cut out when i'm working in MS Word. I've done some research and trouble shooting and i believe i've narrowed it down to my PSU.

 

My specs are:

ASRock H97 Pro4

i7 4790k

GTX 960

16GB DDR3

256SSD

Bog standared 1TB hard drive

750 Watt EVGA PSU

 

Dose anyone know what the problem might be. I am thinking of replacing the PSU with a Corsair VS550w, but now i know it's a 750w, i'm a bit scared too.

 

So far:

-I've played around in the BIOS with overheating settings for the CPU, and turned turbo boost off - which helped for around three hours

-I've looked into weather or not my graphics card is pulling too much power - i don't think it is

-I've changed the power supply cable (From the wall to the PSU) - did nothing

-Cried in the corner wishing i could play EST2 for more than 10 minutes at a time.

 

To be honest, I've only just got round to trying to get this fixed recently due to time constraints, but now I've got more free time i want to upgrade my setup and play a little more.

 

Any recommendations for fixed will be tried out as soon as i can, and if anyone can recommend a new PSU (If that is the problem) it will be greatly appropriated.

 

Thank you so much for your time, I've missed playing games and really want to get back into gaming.

 

Kind Regards,

 

~Lucas

 

 

i had the same problem a month ago,my pc would start up get into windows and while idling it would randomly shut down and i thought my psu was bad but i took the pc apart and put it back together again and for some reason it started working again just fine.so it could be a loose cable

[LucasM]

On 7/19/2018 at 3:36 PM, ki8aras said:

i had the same problem a month ago,my pc would start up get into windows and while idling it would randomly shut down and i thought my psu was bad but i took the pc apart and put it back together again and for some reason it started working again just fine.so it could be a loose cable

I've check all connections, had the CPU out and the GPU out. Didn't made a difference

[ki8aras]

On 7/21/2018 at 1:32 AM, LucasM said:

I've check all connections, had the CPU out and the GPU out. Didn't made a difference

well then it's probably a psu issue