My PC keeps turning off...please help

[JustinLovesIzzy]

Try replace your power supply!

hope that isnt the problem, every component in this pc is less than 1.25 years old. and i have no money to replace anything

[Feifonwong]

BSOD? sorry I'm a little bit of a noob.

He means blue screen of death. Do you get a blue screen with code and jumbled drunk numbers splashed on your screen?

[Laifon]

BSOD? sorry I'm a little bit of a noob.

Blue screen of death

Doesn't seem to be the case tho

[JustinLovesIzzy]

He didnt get BSOD probly .
I have had it too , underclocked my graphic card ( not heat issues at all and no problems with computer) been searching all over...
It runs fine now after downclocking my videocard back to standard/factorysettings.... the videocard isnt the problem however.
I am pretty sure your PSU is the problem , because once i did some powersavings on my system, the problems were gone .. so i need a new PSU

what did you do? i'd like to get this fixed so i can play lol. thnx

[JustinLovesIzzy]

Blue screen of death

Doesn't seem to be the case tho

yeah, no. just power cuts off

[Theref]

hope that isnt the problem, every component in this pc is less than 1.25 years old. and i have no money to replace anything

This kind of error happened to me back then at GW2 launch. At beta it was perfectly fine then suddenly a few days after launch, PC start keeping shut down after several minutes of playing it. I'm sure the problem isn't within the game because I could play it fine previously. I asked Support guy over there replied me with canned message etc etc that I didn't read D: PC was less than 1 year, heck maybe 6 months-ish. Fidding around even reinstalling my windows doesn't help. Later on I figure out my Power Supply was defect (Tested it with my friend's unused power supply). Still had the warranty and got it replaced, and finally it worked again.

[neoreturn]

BSOD? sorry I'm a little bit of a noob.

Bsod= blue screen . I don't think you had it. I had the same issue as you. more like it was caused by power supply but FFXiv just too easy to trigger the issue.

[wolfsspirit]

As i mentioned above , it's the PSU 90% sure.
I used to have my videocard overclocked since i play on an ATI HD 3850 AGP videocard ( no money for new system yet)
I play flawlessly on high settings with it , but my PSU ofcourse got older and after a while cooling of the PSU gets less.. u know dust etc.
I felt the psu.. touched it and i did notice it was pretty hot ( i have an open case , so i can check whatever whenever , for airflow reasons it's open)
So i brought my videocard back to old factory settings and my problems were gone.

I have to mention that it indeed only happens with FF14 , wich is strange.. and i am realy not sure why FF14 would draw more power as other games.
Except that FF14 uses mostly the graphic card and less CPU , wich could explain the blackout. gpu draws too much power

[Slickpig]

yeah, no. just power cuts off

Sorry for your troubles. I've been working on computers for a living for 15+ years, and I can honestly say I've never seen a program cause this directly, it was ALWAYS because of a failing component, or overheating, possibly due to said program taxing it. Did you build this pc? or was it a store bought one? if store bought it may be tough to swap the power supply, and those are generally pretty low wattage and can have difficulty running high end graphics cards. If I was a betting man I would bet on the PSU (power supply unit) it should say on it how many watts it is, can you tell us what it says? It should be at least 500w if you have a high end video card.

[JustinLovesIzzy]

Sorry for your troubles. I've been working on computers for a living for 15+ years, and I can honestly say I've never seen a program cause this directly, it was ALWAYS because of a failing component, or overheating, possibly due to said program taxing it. Did you build this pc? or was it a store bought one? if store bought it may be tough to swap the power supply, and those are generally pretty low wattage and can have difficulty running high end graphics cards. If I was a betting man I would bet on the PSU (power supply unit) it should say on it how many watts it is, can you tell us what it says? It should be at least 500w if you have a high end video card.

had it build online, and it is a 600W, should of mentioned that earlier