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jab3
So I'm playing a little game this afternoon (World of Warcraft if you must
know) and all of a sudden withut warning or anything my computer shuts off.
No power. I push the power button; Nothing. Nada. I begin to become a
bit concerned. I assumed it was the PSU (ThermalTake Purepower 420W, more
on hardware details shortly), so I took it out and put in an older one only
plugging in the hard drives. Nothing. I took it to a different plug in
another part of the house. Nothing. I changed power cables. Nothing. I
am now very concerned. I'm thinking this means a motherboard failure, no?
And so my question is, what are the chances that other parts of my box were
fried during this crash. It wasn't an electrical spike; there were two
other computers running in the same room (1 desktop; 1 laptop plugged in)
and there was no disruption with them.
The computer is: P4-2Ghz, 512MB ram, ECS P4S5A Motherboard, ThermalTake
Purepower 420W PSU, Chaintech nVidia FX 5500-256MB, 2 Maxtor HDs (40G,
160G), Floppy, 1 Sony DVD-Burner, 1 Creative DVD-ROM, 1 NIC, 1 Creative
Soundcard (3+ years old). I leave the box on pretty much all the time, but
the actual case is smaller and airflow was probably a problem. That's why
I recently finally bought a new case designed for airflow; the only fans
were in the PSU and one of those PCI-slot Cyclone blowers. But with all
the flat IDE cables and all the wires from the PSU, there was definitely
congestion in that poor case. Could it have just finally overheated? I
haven't had reset problems, as in the CPU overheating. Whenever I checked
the Hardware Monitor in the BIOS the CPU ran at about 114F and the "System"
at about 70F. I'm prepared for the castigation for mistreating my computer
so poorly. But my main concern is that other parts (hard drives, gfx card)
were damaged in the failure. I fortunately just ordered a new MB and CPU a
couple of days ago, so I will shortly be able to find out, but I just
thought I would relay this tale so that anyone who had any
advice/admonition to offer me would have their chance .
Sorry for the length. I probably still left some stuff out. Thanks for any
information you can provide concerning how I operated and had the computer
set up. Was the graphics card too much for the MB? That Chaintech is only
about 3 weeks old; previously I had a Jaton nVidia 3DForce-2 MX 400 (64MB).
Thanks,
jab3
know) and all of a sudden withut warning or anything my computer shuts off.
No power. I push the power button; Nothing. Nada. I begin to become a
bit concerned. I assumed it was the PSU (ThermalTake Purepower 420W, more
on hardware details shortly), so I took it out and put in an older one only
plugging in the hard drives. Nothing. I took it to a different plug in
another part of the house. Nothing. I changed power cables. Nothing. I
am now very concerned. I'm thinking this means a motherboard failure, no?
And so my question is, what are the chances that other parts of my box were
fried during this crash. It wasn't an electrical spike; there were two
other computers running in the same room (1 desktop; 1 laptop plugged in)
and there was no disruption with them.
The computer is: P4-2Ghz, 512MB ram, ECS P4S5A Motherboard, ThermalTake
Purepower 420W PSU, Chaintech nVidia FX 5500-256MB, 2 Maxtor HDs (40G,
160G), Floppy, 1 Sony DVD-Burner, 1 Creative DVD-ROM, 1 NIC, 1 Creative
Soundcard (3+ years old). I leave the box on pretty much all the time, but
the actual case is smaller and airflow was probably a problem. That's why
I recently finally bought a new case designed for airflow; the only fans
were in the PSU and one of those PCI-slot Cyclone blowers. But with all
the flat IDE cables and all the wires from the PSU, there was definitely
congestion in that poor case. Could it have just finally overheated? I
haven't had reset problems, as in the CPU overheating. Whenever I checked
the Hardware Monitor in the BIOS the CPU ran at about 114F and the "System"
at about 70F. I'm prepared for the castigation for mistreating my computer
so poorly. But my main concern is that other parts (hard drives, gfx card)
were damaged in the failure. I fortunately just ordered a new MB and CPU a
couple of days ago, so I will shortly be able to find out, but I just
thought I would relay this tale so that anyone who had any
advice/admonition to offer me would have their chance .
Sorry for the length. I probably still left some stuff out. Thanks for any
information you can provide concerning how I operated and had the computer
set up. Was the graphics card too much for the MB? That Chaintech is only
about 3 weeks old; previously I had a Jaton nVidia 3DForce-2 MX 400 (64MB).
Thanks,
jab3