[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
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At 09:15 AM 11/06/2010, Brian Weeden wrote: 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 Or it's heat. I'd replace the thermal compound on the CPU and run a CPU temp logging program and see if there is a corelation. T
Re: [H] Computer turns itself off under load
I have described these symptoms before in an other thread. If it isn't heat, you've probably got a virus in you BIOS. Relax, and reflash your BIOS - you might want to go back a version number here. Reset Configuration Data, and it should work fine again. BTW, why use Handbrake, when dvdshrink is available. Just a note ;) Best, Soren Brian Weeden wrote: 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
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I use handbrake as an easy way to take video content and re-encode it to the proper format for my iPhone. It works very nicely for that. I will look into the CPU temp and BIOS issues and get back to you guys. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Soren h...@cdnet.dk wrote: I have described these symptoms before in an other thread. If it isn't heat, you've probably got a virus in you BIOS. Relax, and reflash your BIOS - you might want to go back a version number here. Reset Configuration Data, and it should work fine again. BTW, why use Handbrake, when dvdshrink is available. Just a note ;) Best, Soren Brian Weeden wrote: 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
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 brian.wee...@gmail.com To: hwg hardware@hardwaregroup.com 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
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Oops, I meant video encoding problem, not video card. Increased CPU load : From: Robert Martin Jr. lopa...@pacbell.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com 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 brian.wee...@gmail.com To: hwg hardware@hardwaregroup.com 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
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So, after a little investigation it seems that when I installed the new HD I accidentally left a cable blocking the CPU fan from spinning. That sorta makes it hard to keep things cool --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Robert Martin Jr. lopa...@pacbell.netwrote: Oops, I meant video encoding problem, not video card. Increased CPU load : From: Robert Martin Jr. lopa...@pacbell.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com 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 brian.wee...@gmail.com To: hwg hardware@hardwaregroup.com 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
