Well.... I think my power-supply is going.

[Carruth, Rusty]

Do you have the motherboard model info?  What external drives, what CPU, how much ram, etc?

Of course, you could just go for 600W or more and be moderately sure that it will be at least as good as the 450 was.  In fact, I’d say up it to 500 anyway…

IMHO!

Rusty

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How do I know which power supply is the correct one to get? Is there a way to learn this without cracking the case open again? I hate opening it.

Could you give me a link to the correct page?

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com<mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>> wrote:
Evga website has some 450s for a low price and goods quality

On Sep 18, 2017 1:29 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com<mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
yep... power supply needs to be replaced. It just shut itself off again (as I was editing an image). Blowing the dust off helped..... but didn't fix the problem.

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com<mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
and two fans as well as the cpu fan

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 5:48 AM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com<mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
this computer is very open. It has three holes to the outside world in it. I actually thought to myself that I should blow it out a couple of weeks ago but fogot I had the hand blower and kept forgetting to buy compressed air to do it.


On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:55 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com<mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>> wrote:
Cheaper power supplies are pron to their capacitors failing. this is ultimately what will destabilize them. but if after you cooled the system off and cleaned out the schmutz and it stabilizes then you might have a solution there. Also consider fan/airflow as well.

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com<mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
you know.... I think it was the heat build up. It crashed multiple times. I blew it off and started it again. It crashed again. I must not have given it enough time to cool because  I let it sit for 20-30 minutes and now it isn't crashing.

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 7:27 PM, Carruth, Rusty <Rusty.Carruth at smartm.com<mailto:Rusty.Carruth at smartm.com>> wrote:
Power supply, heat., or software bug ;-)

Those would be my guesses.

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The computer keeps shutting itself off. :(
So I remembered that I had a blower for this and I blew it out and we'll see what happens. The funny thing is that it only seems to do it after I start darktable. I am guessing that it is because dt uses the cpu more. I don't know..... Well, we'll start darktable now and see what happens..... darn. it shut itself off! so this does sound like the power supply?

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