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PSU or UPS Problem? HELP!
Hello :) first of all i would like to thanks all SF Members who always helped me out in the problems and guided me in the right direction and gave me good advises.
Now here's my problem and i'm confused between my PSU and UPS that which one of them could be the problem. In my country the Power-Failure is very common and unpredictible and beside that our Electricity goes completely off from the Grid to save electricity (Government Lie) on scheduled timings which is about as good as 5 to 6 hours a day in my area for now (Sometimes it's much worse than that) so to save my PC from any harm and this problem i'm using a 1200VA UPS just to shutdown Windows and turn off my PC properly and safely within 5mins though the UPS is able to give 20 to 25mins of backup time. At the start of this month i bought a new Graphics Card. Today in morning i was playing Crysis and suddenly there was a Power-Failure (Blackout) and as soon as the Power-Cut happened my PC restarted during gameplay.
Crysis is a game that uses the CPU & GPU at Max Peak and almost consume 90% or more power out of the PSU but the day i bought this Graphics Card i specially checked my PC by running Crysis on Max settings when my Power was about to go from the Grid and the PC did'nt restarted and in later days when i was playing Bulletstorm and few other games there was random Power-Failures and the PC did'nt restarted and the UPS managed to provide correct power to the whole system.
I noticed one thing today that my UPS was charging the battery for a long time about 1 Hr and 40mins after this problem when the Power came back by the Grid and usually after 5mins of battery usage it only takes few mins to recharge. So now i'm confused and i'm not sure which one of the thing is creating this problem is it the UPS Internal Dual-Batteries or the PSU that is draining more power during Power-Failures? My UPS is 14 Months old and the PSU is approx. 9 months old and still as good as new. Today i even ran Crysis and Turned Off my LCD and Wi-Fi Rounter which are attached with the UPS as well to check if the UPS is overloaded but the PC restarted without LCD and Rounter too
I used to had same problem with my old 400W Chinese PSU and 9600GT when i bought this UPS but some people suggested me on other forum (when i was'nt a member here) :) to replace PSU coz it had only 16amps on it where the 9600GT required 24amps. So when i replaced the PSU and got the one i'm still using i never had this problem since that day except today. I never had restart problem when i'm watching Movie, Browsing, Listen Music etc. This is all the info i can provide you now and hoping to hear from you guys and you may ask any questions if i'm missing something also my PC specs are below :) Please HELP!