Help no idea what's wrong with my PC... :(

gregrocker said:

You can always buy or borrow a PSU to swap in and return it if not the prob.

Atm i can't buy no money

And well all my friends have either damn consoles or netbooks(im actualy thinking about selling my PC ang getting one netbook its quite handy and not so much cables im too old for those lol)...

Any way i did some testing cpu load 100% but with no OC and no crashes,harddrives are working correct too,ram is fine too so only things left are...

Gfx or psu that's damaged hm how can i cheak wich one is it?

Any way i was thinking correct me if im wrong if gfx would be damaged it would cause somekinda artifacts or other issues with displayed graphics so i quess its actually psu thats at fault?

And if im not wrong 3870 is eating a lot more power at full load than pentium dual core e2160 right?

Also how its possible that my PC is still working if one of those things is damaged?

pebbly said:

alex1986 here is a link to an online PSU calculator just input all your drives, devices etc and it will give you a recommended psu wattage needed to run your pc Thermaltake Power Supply Calculator :)

Hey sorry diden't notice your post earlier any way i did it and well it turns out my PC eats 475(with OC) and 444 on default basicly i pick 100% load i quess its PSU fault...

So guys answear me this why did my PC worked fine for almost 15 months and now its making problems PSU is dying slowly delivering less power its possible?

Im not expert but PSU can become weaker and not actually die instantly?

Basicly if answear is yes then its my PSU and i only need to replace and im happy i can still do my work on it but its days as gaming rig are over until i get new psu :)

Oh and thanks pebbly good website quite usefull :)

pebbly said:

im not 100% convinced it is your psu at fault , check your ram timings and set them at default ,see if that makes any difference :)

Well im not too but its thing that makes most sense atm...

Any way ram timing are all the same on default settings.

Any way im open to suggestions i even take in consideration that theory about Dragon Age burning ram on 3870 i read some things on google and it turns out some guys have similar problems they can run windows etc but when they try to run some 3d game all shit starts to happen after fev minutes...but still to thing that game burned my cards is kinda scary...

mpcrsc562 said:

Also, your specs stated that you had 800MHz ram running at 933MHz when you were overclocking. When you overclock your cpu, you overclock your ram--if you leave everything as is. So, what type of ram do you have? If it is a "value" brand, you might have messed up the ram. So as you know, what one person is able to do with their hardware / system setup, you might not be able to do with yours even if it exactly the same. Someone else stated to run memtest, so I'd try that to make sure your ram is still good.

Actually it was running at 960Mhz and ram sticks are all from Kingstone not best but not bad too...

I will do secound ram test but not today i will run it tommorow everything is possible i quess...

Also no idea if its important but got now case open and i get wired sound like something is turning on and off(and like switch n and off) its hard to describe any ideas???

Kingston is one of the best at support and replacing defective RAM. Call them if you have any bad chips after memtest86 overnight stress testing.

mpcrsc562 said:

Alex1986 said:

+12V: 0.96V

Are they fine?

Not fine. That is supposed to be 12v!

What's this +12v responsible for? hm im not sure but its gfx related maybe then it would explain everything.

And actually a good news i only need to buy new psu... :)

Any way i did unplug stuff that i don't need so it should work for sometime...

Hm still i don't understand how this can still work any way if i remember right about 1 month ago my sister told me something was burning i quess she was right



Ok so how bad is it?