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?

(03/06/2010 06:29 AM)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... :/

(This post was last modified: 03/06/2010 07:10 AM by ProperBritish.)

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

(This post was last modified: 03/06/2010 07:48 AM by ProperBritish.)

(03/06/2010 07:48 AM)ProperBritish 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.

(This post was last modified: 03/06/2010 09:25 AM by Assassinator.)

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? :/