graphics card - PC Reboot When Stressed
2014-06
Snewix
My father bought a new rig last week.
It's a HP Envy Phoenix with:
- GEFORCE GTX 780 3072MB (Think it had GTX 760 stock)
- Intel i7 4770 3.4 GHz
- 16GB of RAM
- ...
When under heavy load the computer restarts itself. I've tested it with Battlefield 3, Tera Online and FurMark 1.13.0. I've ran FurMark on a low resolution and it instantly restarted.
The GPU uses latest available drivers.
The PSU is a stock one from HP. Model: DPS-600WB A
GPU says it requires a 600W power supply minimum. Could it be that the PSU is too weak or are there any other possibilities?
dhaval.s
You will need more power to run heavy games.
Calculate how much power does the system requires and replace your PSU with the appropriate PSU.
Ashesh
Yes, replace your PSU and you should be good to go.
I saw the product specifications and power requirements, there's a diffrence of 100W between them. Obvioisly it's the PSU because branded PCs come with just the bare minimum PSU needed. So as to cut on cost, specially HP You can check on hp's website to see that your PSU is under-rated.
It can not be a driver issue becquse you are running the latest version available.
Matthew Ruston
I have a Windows Xp SP3 box (doing the duty of a server) that is having uptime problems due to either power outages in the office, or some unexplained crashing. How can I find out the last time Windows booted up or crashed? The crashes only seem to occur every week or so.
I've tried going through the Event Viewer, but I can't seem to find anything that yells out Hey! I just rebooted!
Christopher_G_Lewis
Look for System events -
Source = EventLog
ID = 6009 or 6005
This will show you when your box last started.
You should also look in the c:\Windows\MiniDump directory for any crash dumps.