What's wrong with my Computer?

[firecat318]

I have a custom built PC with a 530 watt power supply. Just today it randomly shut off when I was browsing the internet. I tried to turn it back on but the power supply would light up for only a fraction of a second and then it would shut back off. If I hit the button again nothing would happen. I thought it might be my electrical outlet so I plugged my computer into a different outlet. It powered right up but then about 20 minutes later it shut down again unexpectedly. I moved the computer back to the original outlet and it powered back up. 20 minutes later it shut off again - if I tried to turn it back on nothing would happen. I moved it back to the other outlet and it would power back up again. However, it shut off again in 20 minutes again... Now I'm fairly certain something is wrong with my computer and it's not the electrical outlets in my room. Does anyone have any idea of what could be wrong?

 

[jonnyp11]

sounds like the psu, what is the exact model, link would be appriciated, also you may want to try unplugging it, finding a small circular battery on the motherboard, then pop it out with a screw driver or something and leave it out for like 5-10mins and put it back in, plug the power in, and power it on. also the specs of the rest of the comp might help too

 

[firecat318]

PSU - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817152028
CPU - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103849
MoBo - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128435

HD 6970 graphics card
Older hard drive dont know model its 500 GB 5400 RPM
8 GB Corsair XMS Memory

 

[jonnyp11]

yeah, that's a $H1T brand psu, supprosed it ever worked, best bet to either contact newegg or raidmax and see what you can get, if a replacement then sell her on ebay and pick this up, cheapest psu worth getting, way higher quality and will actually put out close to what it says,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139028

 

[johnb35]

Yeah, get a new psu. The raidmax isn't powerful enough to run your gpu.

The 600 watt builder series unit jonny linked you too is good but this one will give you some more headroom for expansion later.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139020

 

[firecat318]

It's weird because my power supply has actually been powering my computer for a good 4 months already - it also powered it 10 months before when I had a smaller (less power) graphics card. Anyways I'm pretty sure it finally went kaput because I can't get it to power up now no matter what I try. I just ordered the 600 watt PSU that was linked here - got a $10 off promo code so that was nice.

 

[jonnyp11]

good luck, have some fun with that gpu now that it has all the power it needs to run.