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Random shutdowns / loss of power
So about a week ago now my main system has just started to randomly shutdown. Not like shutdown in the sense it exits windows and powers down. I mean like i'm typing this message and now the power is out. The only way to power the system back on is by power cycling the UPS it's connected to and then powering the system itself back on. If I don't unplug the power, then I can't reboot.
So I thought it might be a heat issue and when checking the video card (GTS 250) it's at 111 F. The CPU is sitting at 107 and the MB is at 96.
After this started to happen, I went through and dusted everything off and started to monitor the heat. No spikes or high temps at any point. I tried to see if I could figure out what i needed to do to make it power down, and so far in the last 2 hours I have had it power down about 5 times on me now. I can't seem to find a reason.
ASUS PC Probe is currently reporting my voltages at 1.30, 12.03, 5.08, 3.31 for the rails and they don't seem to flucuate to much.
I have had the system power down on me from a cold start (powered off most of the day) and probably 4 min into it, shut down. It will at times go for hours with no problem, and then I click a link in a website and no power. Was typing an email Monday, had IE open in two instances...shut down. Earlier tonight I was working away on something and lost power. Rebooted, email client loaded and then I went to visit one website I was trying to get to and lost power again (about 1 min 50 after booting back up from the last one. I just lost power before posting this while trying to research reason it could be happening, and in the time it took me to write this message, no power loss. It could very well stay on now for the rest of the night, or it could power down as soon as I hit submit...I have no idea anymore. Anyone got a clue here?