possibly power supply, i try and get a good PSU cuz ... well... lol it powers the rest of your system, doesn't matter what components you put in there a crappy power supply could be messing things up or worse... could fry up ur whole pc. so yeah get a good PSU with lots of wattage. I've also had this happen with my athlon…
lol, read everything I said... it's NOT your power supply necessarily. I may not have been clear enough. The powersuply has strips of connectors coming out. Most likely, the connectors used for your video cards, are on the same strip. You need to disconnect one video card and use a power connector from a different strip.
Ok, one more thing. From that article, it seems there may be a simple solution: [ QUOTE ] As we noted earlier, you can prevent these shutdowns by using a molex-to-PCI Express graphics card adapter and sharing the load with another 12V rail. Alternatively, just load up the other rails with more hard drives or other…
ok, now the computer shuts down in the desktop and ocasionally freezes , making me to hard reset...a new power source arrives in the mail in 2 days , don't know what to do...
Notman - I didn't mention the seperate rails cuz you already had it covered good advice. Johny - Its always good to have as few things on any given rail (rail = power lead coming from PSU) as possible and if it IS an SLI PSU it should have 2 seperate rails marked specificaly for the GFX cards. If you can open up your case…
What cooling do you have on the graphics cards, it could be them overheating. I agree with the others on the power supply though, it may be underpowered for your system. With specs like yours you should have at least a 700W PSU and it should DEFINATELY be a good brand. PSU or overheating GFX cards is my guess as both would…
ok the powers ource arrived today , but the computer seems to be swlowly getting crapy , now a blue screen of death appeared for some seconds before restarting my system...i begin to think this isnt also the psu...