A little Troubleshooting Help

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bangbang

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I stopped OCing attempts and decided to run the system stock yesterday. Everything ran great 95-120 fps in SC2 with everything set to extreme and 60fps for alot of other games was AWESOME.
Now I let me computer idle for the night while downloading and applying patches. I got up and the computer was off and would not turn on. I turned off the switch on power supply and held the power button in for like 10 seconds. I dont know if holding the power button helps or not or just turning switch off would have been enough I just did. I turned power supply switch back on and it booted up with no problem. No errors at all.

Thanks
 
Any idea as to why it would shut off like that? No problems at all today. Power supply issue? or something else?
 
bangbang said:
Any idea as to why it would shut off like that? No problems at all today. Power supply issue? or something else?
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I'm in no position to give advice, but the only time I ever had a computer act weird like that when turning on, it ended up being the PSU. Although in my case the power button would flash amber...

What type of PSU is it, how many watts? You didn't lose power over night by any chance, did you?

Hopefully someone else with more experience will come and help too.
 
Power drop/loss/spike or the supply overheating can make one shut down and you have to discharge it to start back up. Or worst case the power supply is going bad. Any of the above.
 
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CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 V2 650W ATX12V v2.31/ EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC High Performance Power

No spike i know of I been gaming on it while watching football and nothing wrong runs AMAZING compared to what i was running. Game I played I disabled vertical sync just to see how fps would get and was at 225 fps with graphics up all the way/ i know that doesnt matter but i was lucky to hit 20 fps on low settings on alot of games
 
Meh I dont understand how it could be a bad power supply when I've been playing sc2 and etc on it alot today. The pc is very quiet and no problems at all, runs great! Is there something about idling that could do something? Like under the windows power control settings or etc?
 
So I was out of the house for like 5 hours and when I came back it shut off when it was idling. Turn switch off then back on and powers right back up. Dont understand this, runs fine when its not left to idle.
 
I changed the ACPI Suspend Status in Bios from S3(STR) to S1(POS). Did some short tests with it by putting pc into sleep mode and it hasnt shut off
Pleade note i did tests and the pc would turn off the way it is when it entered sleep mode
 
I suggest you disable all those power saving functions, c states, disable windows sleep and hibernation. And then leave EIST (Intel's speedstep) or AMD's Cool'n'Quiet enabled so the machine clocks down at idle. That way the machine won't shut off or enter sleep mode or hibernation, it'll just sit there idling until you turn it off.
 
Ive got it sleeping without any problems now was gone for about 5 hours and came back and was sleeping and came on without a problem. Thank you
 
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