A short circuit in my new build?

[TimPoet]

Okay, the new build has been doing fine for about a week as I wait for my speakers to arrive to start gaming.
But it happened yesterday. The comp restarted when I had barely touched my USB flash drive to the USB socket and it wouldn't produce any video until I jiggled the power cord in the back, it was loose, but I know that wasn't the whole problem- just part of it.
A couple hours later it shutdown, this time with video returning once I turned it back on, when I pushed the cd player button which sits above the USB port. There has to be a connection between the restart and the shutdown since the two components are so close to each other.
I noticed the case is shoddy. One can't put the screws in to hold down the PCI cards and such nonsense. And the I/O shield doesnt stay in place.

TIA for the advice.


My Specs:

Pentium D 805 2.66GHz
ASUS P5L-MX 945G
CORSAIR ValueSelect RAM 1 gig, 2 sticks
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB SATA Hard Drive
eVGA 7600gt
Hauppauge WinTV-Go-Plus Tuner Card
COOLER MASTER RC-330-KKN1-GP Black SECC ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Fortron ATX400-PA, version 2.0, SATA, 400W Power Supply
ViewSonic Q19wb 19" LCD Monitor

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by TimPoet I noticed the case is shoddy. One can't put the screws in to hold down the PCI cards and such nonsense. And the I/O shield doesnt stay in place.

The Cooler Master case is shoddy? I've never used one but I thought some other forum members said their cases are good?

To verify if the case is the problem you could do the out-of-case troubleshooter and run the system like that for a few days just to see if the problem goes away.

Are you sure the problem isn't user error?

Cricket

[tempus]

you have a loose connection or bad grounding somewhere. Suggest you check all connections and check grounding of PS to chassis of case.

[blue60007]

Does the case have those annoying "tooless" clips? Are you sure you can remove the clip thingy and replace it with screws?

[newbuilder14]

I have to agree that the tool-less design and some features of the Cooler Master cases are kind of shoddy, but the overall manufacturing of the cases is not poor quality either.

[TimPoet]

Originally Posted by Cricket Are you sure the problem isn't user error? Cricket

He he, I wouldn't doubt it.

Well, the problem hasn't reoccured, so============== we'll see, I guess.

But one other thing, among others, is that the system won't shut down immediatlly like it did before this last occurence. Now it takes that 5 second lag, which I hate. Any ideas why?

[newbuilder14]

Originally Posted by TimPoet But one other thing, among others, is that the system won't shut down immediatlly like it did before this last occurence. Now it takes that 5 second lag, which I hate. Any ideas why?

I wouldn't worry about that... mine takes about 2-3 seconds to shut down after the Windows dialog disappears as well.

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by TimPoet But one other thing, among others, is that the system won't shut down immediatlly like it did before this last occurence. Now it takes that 5 second lag, which I hate. Any ideas why?

The more processes and programs you have running in background, the longer it will take the system to shutdown.

Cricket