Kevin Caulfield
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Hi Steve,
Thanks for your quick reply. Isn’t it amazing that they would sell a new computer with such an underspecified power supply? I will definitely take your advice. Will take it back to the local computer place where I bought it and get them to swap the power supply to something more appropriate. I just checked another place and it looks like I should be able to get a 650 W PSU for about $150. Thanks again for your help. 🙂
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I opened the case and had a squiz. There’s not much dust there at all. The computer is only a couple of months old.
The power supply is an AcBel PC9045 and it says 313.9W max in one place and peak 380W in another place.
I could only see one fan and it seems to be working fine.
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Hi Steve,
The computer is an ASUS Gladiator HFP19010C, with an Intel i-7 Quad and 8GB of RAM. I don’t have the specs on the power supply. Will open up the case and see what I can find. I have not added any hardware to the computer since purchase apart from a firewire card, as the onboard firewire was faulty. Thanks for your help.
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I thought a bad stick of RAM could be a possibility, Mike. I just ran a test with a diagnostic disc and the RAM all seems to be fine.
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Hi Steve,
I downloaded Prime 95 and ran it and it actually crashed the whole computer. Just to check, I then downloaded it again from a different site and ran it again, and again it crashed the computer straight away.
So, it’s looking like a serious issue.
Kevin
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Thanks for your quick reply, Steve. I’ll try that and get back to you.
Best regards,
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Hi Danny. It happens with any file. I did try just selecting a 2 or 3 minute chunk of one file and rendering that loop region only, and it started rendering for a few seconds but then crashed. Thanks.
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Hi Steve,
It seems to be approximately but not exactly the same point where it crashes.
No blue screen, no error message. The computer just completely turns off with no warning. -
Nothing I can remember. Although there was a Java update icon flashing the first few times this happened. It was asking me to update some Java thing. Eventually after about the third crash I did the Java update, but maybe that is causing the problem?
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Hi Gilles. I actually only tried it with HDV.