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Power supplies are quite often the culprit, particularly for "random" crashes. Electrolytic caps have the highest failure rate by far of any component used in the typical PC (other than the crap Microsoft calls an OS). Given the motherboard has been replaced recently, the power supply itself would be next on my list.
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power supply was a new unit when the m/b and p/s were put in about 6 months ago
went from the stock 240w to a 500w unit at that time only new demand on power was a single GTX550ti video card other then the m/b only new crash after last post was when I tryed to play solitary card game |
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currently up for the last 24 hours
tryed a couple stress tests on memory, cpu, and GFX card all passed ok guess the original problem was software not hardware but no idea what exactly was wrong kind of surprised there are no freeware program to solve the ''why is my box crashing'' problem for non-geeks |
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Also, if someone could write that bit of code they'd be an idiot to release it as freeware. It would be worth a fortune.
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but I fixed it myself and for free I do not expect a simple cure all program to fix everything but do think microsoft windoz should have a much better simple error report and not just say ''unexpected shut down'' or some number error code that has no real clue what is happening so no I do not expect the error report to say 4231st cap in the XYX board is bad but if hardware id that the M/B is going bad or the power supply volts are out of spec nor that the report will be able to tell me exactly what software conflict that is the problem so how about a simple the ''unexpected shut down'' was do to a hardware flaw or if software say that with out going into massive detail on the problem ? or just a KISS trouble report but better then the MS no clue reports Last edited by nota; 03-02-2016 at 01:54 PM.. |
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Sometimes software causes hardware to fault and sometimes hardware causes software to fault. Sometimes one piece of software causes a second piece of software to cause hardware to fault. Without knowing what caused what to fault the knowledge that it was a ______ fault is useless.
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