I've built a rig for a person, and its giving me major problems. It's instable while playing games. The temperatures were all fine, I figured it was a power problem. We took the monitor off of the power strip and plugged in into another outlet to take load off of the PC's outlet. That worked for a day. Problems came back, we used a UPC and that worked for three or four days. So then we just plugged the PC into a grounded outlet, and that has worked for a week and the problem came back again.

Now I can't easily diagnose the darn thing because every time we change something, the problem goes away for days. I've been thinking it was an issue with his wiring for awhile because it was old and caused issues with things in the past. I'm not terribly surprised that the UPC didn't work because it was only like 310 watt thing. We can't get anything bigger though, because his power in his house gets problems when UPCs are used.

I'm going to go over re-set the CMOS, take the PCIE bus back to 100 from 101, and manually set the ram timings, though I doubt that will help. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

Corsair 520 Watt PSu
8800GTS
Asus p5ne SLI
CORSAIR XMS2 DDR2 800 RAM

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The computer is probably not receiving enough power.

If it works fine elsewhere (Like your house) then it's his power, else I'd say the psu.

See, that's I've been saying all along, but because it works for so long when we switch things around, it's very hard to tell.

Go down to Home Depot and go buy one of those power McChecker thingers, and use it to check the outlet whenever he gets instability.

If you notice screwy stuff, then you know your friend might be better off not having anything plugged in until the power company fixes his ****.

That's what I would do, but it's not my PC. I like the power checker idea though. Thanks.

Well then why do you care?


"I have a problem!"

"Here is a possible solution!"

"Oh, but it's not my problem, so it doesn't matter."



You make no god damn sense.

Cause it's not really a solution, because that the way his wiring is going to stay, so basically he would just not use his computer, until he moved out.

(I was talking about not plugging it in suggestion.)

Thats more than likely the only solution though.


You should probably slap your friend for being dumb.

The misunderstanding of the last five posts makes my head hurt.