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My PC has been acting up recently. I usually leave my PC on all the time or in sleep mode and I noticed that it's been powered off lately when I tried to take it out of sleep. Then it started turning off every hour or so and the it's become exponential that now it turns off after a few minutes of use. I cleaned all the fans to make sure that there were all running and it wasn't an overheating issue. Anyone know what it the issue could be or what I should try to do to fix it?

buy a new power supply - i had a similar problem and it was the PS that was randomly doing it. you can always return it if its not the problem. worth a shot.

Ya...that's what I was thinking. I think my PS has a 5 year warranty so I'll give them a call tomorrow and see how that goes.

You're probably still overheating. Power supplies are easy to diagnose, and they don't exponentially turn your computer off faster and faster. Overheating does that.

What kind of video card do you have? Are the capacitors popped on it?

After you replace the power supply, replace the video card first. Then check memory, then check processor, then check hard drive.

dude, screw going through the RMA process/mfr - just buy a powersupply at Fry's, and try it out. if its definitely the issue, then you can always RMA, but its bullshit that you would need to pay shipping. Shipping my HTX850 was like $30! if the problem is still occurring, you can always just return it to fry's ...because isnt everyhting at fry's returned anyway?

^ this

Cool. I'll go pick up a power supply from Fry's tomorrow. The fact that the system turns off earlier and earlier made me think it could be an overheating issue but even if i let the PC rest for a day it still turns off earlier and earlier. It's turned off in 60 seconds before which I think is too early for overheating. I'll see what happens when I replace the power supply first.

Thanks guys.

It's not the power supply. I tried a new one out and I am unable to get past the boot screen which is making me think it must be a RAM issue. I did see one error message that I only got a glimpse of before it powered off that said something like "Warning!...change CMOS....". Should I buy new RAM or does anyone have any suggestions?


*EDIT*

Found the error again. It says "Warning! system is now in safe mode. please reset cpu or memory frequency in the cmos setup". I'll do some research and see what i can find.

This is so annoying. I called EVGA for help and I've tried everything that's been suggested online. I think I'm just going to upgrade by PC to avoid the hassle of trying to isolate this issue, if it can even be isolated.

This is what I've got right now:

-Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz
-EVGA GeForce GTX 260 Superclocked Edition 896MB 448-bit GDDR3
-EVGA NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI FTW ATX Intel Motherboard
-CORSAIR DOMINATOR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066
-Thermaltake W0319RU 850W

I haven't done any research but I was thinking Intel Core i7, EVGA P55 Motherboard, 8 gigs DDR3 RAM, and EVGA GTX. I could also use my vid card temporarily until I have the spare cash to burn on a really nice card.

Let me know what you think?

dude lex, just buy every part - ( not saying keep it, just return all the other shit once youve isolated it)

MB (this being switched out last obviously)
RAM
GFX card
(you already have the PSU)

and start switching out until the problem goes away. ive had problems like that before and just kept on switching out until i isolated the issue....for me, it was the PSU and another time, it was shitty RAM. have you tried removing sticks of ram?