Oops, I meant "video encoding" problem, not "video card". Increased CPU load :
________________________________ From: Robert Martin Jr. <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, June 11, 2010 9:50:00 AM Subject: Re: [H] Computer turns itself off under load I've seen this a few times. It's sometimes because of heat when the bios setting specifies a power down at certain temp. If that's the case you can change the setting to a higher temp to give more leeway. Also I've seen this as a video card related problem, that is sometimes heat related and sometimes a power supply issue where the higher load on system starts pulling more than the PSU can supply. lopaka ________________________________ From: Brian Weeden <[email protected]> To: hwg <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, June 11, 2010 5:15:22 AM Subject: [H] Computer turns itself off under load Got another weird one. My HTPC has suddenly developed an issue where it turns it self off. Not crash, but completely powers off. And the only time it happens is when I ask it to encode video, such as using Handbrake. It gets a few minutes into the operation and boom. Everything else - surfing, ripping, 1080p playback, etc is perfectly smooth and fine. I'm thinking this could be power issue. My guess is that when both cores ramp up to full power to encode the video, the power supply can't handle it and it dies. The only recent change I've made is adding another disk to the RAID array Here's the rest of the hardware: Athlon X2 4850e 2.5 Ghz GIGABYTE GA-MA78G-DS3H 780G Motherboard Areca ARC-1220 PCI-Express x8 SATA II Raid card (8) SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA OCZ StealthXStream 600W EPS12V Power Supply Is that too much power load for the OCZ? --------------------------- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US
