I have an interesting problem. When the amd 64 started to come down in price i built a system, 3400 with gig of corsair twinx pro series ram, Antech smart power 350 250gig sata drive. Nvidia 5600. It was a decent system and it ran well however one day it up and just died. Turned off in the middle of GTA Vice and refused to turn on again. Put in a differnt PSU and it ran for a day and then died. Very confusing pissed me off i put it to the side and used my other desktop.
Well i had since replaced with with an AMD 3700 Watercooled with DFI Lanparty board used the same ram from dead system number 1 but got a new maddog 500w modular power supply. This system had 3 vid cards to drive 4"21" monitors. A 6800GT, 5500, both from nvida and some ATI card i had laying around. Also had ATI tv card. now other then adding the extra vid cards and the tv cards and swaping the ram i did not build the second system. It ran great for almost a year at my house and last night it up and died the exact same way. Just shuts off and refuses to turn back on. PSU is fine chip is fine ram is fine... Im quite confused. I think its power related and only thing i can think of is the Belkin 1000va UPS that i use. Any one have any suggestions as to the cause of these deaths? i dont wanna get a new board only to have it die in a year.
EDIT: i also lost a monitor that was attached to that UPS and my server that was connected had some power issues after about a year... server is no longer used.
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