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Figured out why my computer was shutting off.

#1 DocSavage

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Posted 12 June 2010 - 11:20 PM

It was my PSU dying a slow, horrific death. I have that 750w sitting here, debating on whether to put that in for the mean time or whether I will just wait...I don't know, I might swap 'em out...I'm too tired to think about it right now anyway.

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#2 DocSavage

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Posted 13 June 2010 - 02:37 PM

False alarm. After pulling the side off and looking, I had two case fans not working. I thought, "Great I blew a rail in the PSU!" But, no some dumbass didn't even hook 'em up when he put it together. So, for this past 8 weeks I've been running with two case fans turned off. Fortunately the CPU never got too hot. I have the monitors running and they never got over 70 C. But, the PSU was fucking hot! I let it set over night and Corsair had this little blurb about putting a paperclip in and shorting out the fan straight to ground to reset/check the fan. Low an behold it worked! LOL

The moral of this story is; don't let Doc build you a computer! lmao

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#3 BlackMage

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Posted 13 June 2010 - 02:47 PM

You are truly retarded.

#4 DocSavage

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Posted 13 June 2010 - 02:56 PM

I know...I really felt it too when I put my finger in that fan on the front and it didn't make any noise...But, on a brighter note I just ordered $23 worth of new high flow fans so that I make SURE that nothing overheats.

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#5 Apelogic

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 08:17 AM

lol, for some reason I thought you had a water cooling setup.

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