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PC "Crashing"

Duckie

Duckie

SOH-CM-2024
Here's the situation. Recently my PC started crashing. Here are the symptoms. Doesn't matter what activity, screen goes black, no messages, power is still up and all fans still running except GPU fan shuts down, after a few seconds "SIGNAL LOST" displays on black screen and monitor goes to "sleep mode", almost immediately the PC begins a reboot.

This happed once about 6 months ago and didn't happen again until just before Christmas. Now it happens several times per session (3-4hours) and sometimes the reboot will not complete before the above cycle starts again.

Could this be the boot drive failing? Thoughts, suggestions?

System:
XP Home SP3
3GB DDR3
850W Corsair PS
ASUS P6TSD Motherboard
Intel i7 920
ATI x4870HD Extreme 1GB
100 GB 7200RPM SATA boot drive for windows and a few others only

2 ea 250 GB 7200RPM SATA HDD for all other programs including FS and graphics.


Thanks Steve
 
check the bottom fan on power supply, this happened to me and 1 leg of power supply went out after some time.
 
I've had a couple of power supply failures start like this.

It could be the video card, but they usually give graphics anomalies.
 
Thanks stansdds. Did some preliminary trouble shooting today based on some tips from others and we'll see how long they last. Checking prices on replacement power supplies incase I have to pull the trigger! :salute:
 
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