I have an issue with my secondary/storage/girlfriends gaming rig, where in games it will beep a few times then shut off. Im pretty certain its not temperature and Ive checked the ram which seems ok so Im thinking its a problem with the PSU (a 360w chieftec) so Im thinking of putting a new one in. This also helps as Im planning to install an extra 2 x sata 150 500gb drives for backups and the current PSU has no sata 150 power connectors.  

So Im looking for a beefy psu to run 2 IDE HDDs, 2 IDE CD/DVD writers, 2 SATA 150 500GB HDDs, 1 Geforce 6600, and the trimmings. Any suggestions?

Cheers,

Riv

Almost certainly a temp issue.

Sort that before anything else - Id have a look at the cooling on the graphics card if it tends to happen only whilst gaming.

Its done it with 4 different gfx cards so def not a card issue. It has been known to do it at desktop but 7/10 times its in a game. The temperature is so far below the shutdown temo I dont see how it could be a temp issue.

Can you describe the beep code?

Quote from: RivkidIts done it with 4 different gfx cards so def not a card issue. It has been known to do it at desktop but 7/10 times its in a game. The temperature is so far below the shutdown temo I dont see how it could be a temp issue.

Check the alarm temperature in the bios. It may have been set lower. If it runs in the game to start off with then its unlikely to be drawing too much power from the PSU, that would normally happen as soon as you started to suck the extra power from it, it wouldnt normally beep either, it would just crash. To check that just unplug the drives that arent being used. If it crashes at random then it might just be an intermittent memory problem, Mobo issue, or the PSU is going.

Check the HSF and clean it out, just in case.

Quote from: White GiantCan you describe the beep code?

yeah its kind of like a police siren - nee naw - nee naw - nee naw - OFF!!

Mine did that when its CPU overheated, although it didnt shut down, just kept going.

Sounds like overheating to me,
I remember the first time I heard that siren, thought it was someones alarm in the steet, then the pc stopped.