power supply

...it will just shut it down. I think it is my power supply as it often get very hot and along with that...Coolmax, off-brand company I believe. I also have 2 monitors. I have GTA IV set to medium settings and with Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, probably full settings. Also GTA IV's graphics glitch up...

My specs: CPU: QuardCore AMD Phenom II X4 Black Edition 965, 3415 MHz Mainboard: M5A78LLE ASUS RAM: 8 GB RAM GPU: Sapphire Tri-X R9 290 Power adapter: SF-550P14HE 550W 230V only System: Windows 7 Professional So, whenever I use my Sapphire Tri-X R9 290 my computer crashes absolutly randomly...

Just wanted to bounce some idea off of the resident experts on building a nice, mildly high powered system intended to last for a few years (I do business stuff on it with graphics design, web design, office apps, lots of stuff running when I get busy during the day) Asus Rampage IV Black...

Greetings, Unfortunately BSOD is terrorizing my Girlfriend's PC and I'm running out of ideas on how to fix it. This is why I need your help. According to the sticky I'm attaching all the files needed. The restarts are happening randomly. At first I thought it was the power supply (600W...

I'm at my wits end here guys and gals. I bought a Corsair Vengeance 1500 USB headset for my Windows 7 Ultimate machine I built (details below). Everything works great, except upon coming out of sleep mode, my audio cuts in and out. Every once in a while, it works fine, maybe 5% of the time, but...

I'm getting both of these errors constantly. Everything used to work with my old Asus z77 MB and I'm on my second MSI z87 G45 since I returned the first one thinking that it was bad. Now I'm thinking it's the CPU since everything else worked fine on my Asus z77. PSU = I have an Antec 850w. RAM...

Hello, I am having major issues with my custom built gaming pc. I have had this rig for less than a year and everything had been running smoothly up until recently. While playing games my pc will just randomly blue screen. I did not assemble the pc myself, i have very little knowledge about how...

Hello, I have a laptop HP EliteBook 8740wWhose original charger no longer works, but the battery is good (thankfully) , it almost a year. I found a universal charger planet saturn " hama " model achg -07: 100v- 240v , 1.6A max, output: 19V / 4.7A , 120W max !the original charger is Dell PA-10...

Greetings... I recently joined the forum to try and find the source of my issues. This started happening back in November shortly after a MS update. It usually happens when watching streaming video in Chrome or FFox and with many tabs open and both browsers running. After my PC goes belly-up...

I have a system that's acting strange. It's a new mobo, cpu, ddr3 & psu. It has a HD 5850 GPU & has been working great but over the last few weeks it's been randomly going blank. I could have the pc system on & then all of a sudden I get a black screen. No mouse cursor, no response from any...

I've had my computer since last march and I've had it formatted multiple times due to BSODs and freezes, after it has been formatted it works for while then the problem comes back. I've had it sent off to the manufacturer and they said it's not hardware but the upgraded my power supply from a...

Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit, 6.1.7601 SP 1 Build 7601, Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R, i7-960, 12gb mem, GTX-560, NZXT Gamma case I recently replaced my motherboard and psu in a system recovery. Since then all my fans keep running after shutdown, the front case light is on, usb hub light is on, and case...

I have been getting this BSOD along with another Stop 0xF4, driver_power_state_failure (only once), kernel_data_inpage_error, and memory_management they pop up sporadically. The most common being the kernel_data BSOD. I removed one ram stick from slot 4 and the PC doesn't freeze up anymore, so...

I need to order a new power supply for one of my computers, and I have a pretty good idea of what to look for, except in one respect...brand. I ask this question because of problems I've had in the past with two well known brands...Antec and Gigabyte, which I don't want to repeat anything...

Hi there. I'm having a major issue regarding my video card and the BSOD. I was experiencing issues with the video drivers and I was getting error warnings. So I decided to restart my PC and this is when I got my first BSOD nvlddmkm.sys error. After much searching on the internet I tried to...

Testing a atx 24 pin power supply out of the computer. Are there pins that can be shorted to turn the power supply on while its out of the computer?

Intel i7 950 CPU @3.07 ghz 3.13 ghz EVGA GTX 280 card 6gb corsair ram hd is an old hp laptop 5200 rpm drive So i used to have a gtx 580 on the computer, which served over 2 years perfectly, until recently it decided to act up, and it would crash the drivers every time i did something that...

System I7 3770 not oc'd 16 gig ram Gigabyte Motherboard GTX 660 Power Supply is a Corsair 700 Watt only about a year and a half old. I am having trouble figuring out what may be causing Windows 8.1 to crash. It seems that it is fixed and then it isn't. Here is what occurred: 1. Never had any...

Hi WindowsForum members, · Windows 7 Service Pack 1 · x86 · My OS is retail version. · Some of my hardware is already 3 years old, some of it is 2 years old. · Age of OS installation - have you re-installed the OS? · My OS is 1 year old, before this problem occur, I already has other problem...

Hi, this is regarding my son's pc. He has a problem with it sticking like the cpu is at 100% & everything sticks for a second n then continues for a few n sticks again. I originally thought it was the Q6600 CPU so i upgraded him with a Q9650 CPU but it still happens. When he is playing games in...