Endless Paradigm

So my pc for a while likes to randomly shut off, with no warning etc.
Pretty sure its down to overheating, Despite having a pretty big fan on the front which blows out air, and one on the side panel, and the psu, and a big cpu heatsink/fan etc etc.

My ram's pretty shoddy because a couple of sticks died, leaving me down to only 2GB,

So what I'm thinking is grabbing another 2GB of ram, and a couple of extra case fans, but I'm still not sure this will solve the problem, anyone got any ideas?

Pyro Wrote: [ -> ]So what I'm thinking is grabbing another 2GB of ram, and a couple of extra case fans, but I'm still not sure this will solve the problem, anyone got any ideas?

It won't be the case fans, but the CPU heatsink/fan instead.

well that's what i thought it was, but I've already replaced that because one of the clips was broken, and the new one's pretty decent... :/

does it just shut off completely dead with no warning? or does it freeze with a picture still displaying?

if it just shuts off completely point blank it may be your PSU crapping out.

shuts off dead, no warning.
Yeah, I'm really hoping its not, if it is that's kinda sucky..

ye it might be that

friend had the same problem, his PSU caught fire eventually.

Any BSOD's? Also what are you running in terms of graphics?

PropellerBritish Wrote: [ -> ]ye it might be that

friend had the same problem, his PSU caught fire eventually.

Happened to me too.

Mine blew up (loud pop) and died.  That was a really shitty no-brand 560W (that's a lie, my current 460W works flawlessly) PSU carried over from my old computer though.

used to get blue screens every now and again, but the pc would restart itself too quick for me to read, even with 'don't restart on system failure' checked. What am i supposed to do if it is the PSU?

... buy a new one? :/