TC Kills the power of my PC on startup! :'(

[eladan]

It's definatley not the PSU, I finally got around to getting a bigger PSU (750w) and still get the same thing.

I still recommend you get your system tested by someone who has the knowledge and tools to diagnose what the real issue is. I'm not 100% sure that it is the PSU, and if it's not, then you've wasted your money.

Once again, it's pointless blaming the game for what must be a system issue. And once more, I recommend that you get an expert to take a look. There's only so much advice that we are able to provide without the benefit of being able to examine and test the system.

[softweir]

A thought from my brother: Does your BIOS have any settings for waking the PC up from standby when prompted by hardware? This sort of setting is normally used for PCs used as fax machines for instance, so the fax modem can wake the PC up to receive a fax. Normally, these settings should all be off by default, but my bro had a mobo which had these turned on and, bizarrely, under certain circumstances the PC would power down, then back up. This was fixed by going into the BIOS and disabling all these settings. Since then, it has behaved perfectly.

On Gigabyte boards these settings are:

• PME Event Wake Up
• Power On by Ring
• Resume by Alarm

It's unlikely to be this, but worth a try?