Some Help Confused

darryn

darryn

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Hey all

iam pretty confused about what is happening to my pc, sometimes it powers on fine no issues other times it doesn't power on at all until i either unplug it from the floor or unplug it the main power from the board and after a few trys it comes on and boots normally iv been told that it could be my psu holding a charge and that when i do the above two things its releasing the charge and that i should replace my psu i also notice that after this happens my time is wrong on my pc so iam confused on what it could be i did a test now where i took out my video card which a gtx 680 4gig and used the onboard vga and it booted up could it be that a 600 watt psu isnt enough for this system i have a normal standard amd board with fx8520 cpu no overclocking no nothing i could really use some advise as i dont want to fork out cash on the wrong fix
 
600w is enough.

Try a different PSU and post back results.

How old is your motherboard?
 
CamiKaze said:
600w is enough.

Try a different PSU and post back results.

How old is your motherboard?
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Both PSU and Mobo are almost 1 year old i got them both at the same time last year, dont really have another psu that can power my vga and everything else to test with i thought it could be my maulti plug i changed it out on friday and still the same
 
Take it to a pc shop ask to test the PSU. The multiplug with either work or not work.

And for the love of Trogdor, type sentences with punctuation and grammar. That wall you posted gives me a headache to read.
 
Troubleshoot your whole pc. Take out all unnecessary hardware and start from the basics, cpu, mobo, psu and 1 RAM stick. And test it, if it runs fine then add piece by piece of hardware like gpu, more RAM etc. Could be that one of your parts is shorting out from time to time. I suggest this cause I had a similar issue a while back. Turns out my motherboard was slightly touching my towers backplate now and then and it would create a short. Try a different psu too if you can. As said above 600w is more than powerful enough so it's not a question of lack of power.
 
Thanks will give that a go thing is doesn't do it all the time
 
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