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    Question Did faulty PSU damage my motherboard?

    I have now installed windows on an old HDD just to see if its a problem with SSDs, and im hour and a half in and system working fine. I used Seatools software to test both SSDs and the HDD and only the SSD that previously held windows has failed the test... It is clearly broken, and when i...
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    Question Did faulty PSU damage my motherboard?

    Ok i reinstalled windows again and it worked for about 10 minutes. Same problems again.. Its currently frozen and i get to click one thing every 5 minutes. It was acting weird even before it started freezing, icons on my taskbar would randomly flicker similar as if i clicked refresh, or my mouse...
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    Question Did faulty PSU damage my motherboard?

    Well i decided to reinstall windows again since it occured to me i didnt do that since the PSU change. The drives are both fairly new but if windows runs fine, first thing im gonna do is download some sort of app that can check their health.
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    Question Did faulty PSU damage my motherboard?

    Thank you for responding! I ran memtest86 with all 3 ram sticks and it completed without any errors, it took 2 hours and 10 min. The reason i have 3 sticks is because one was defective ever since i bought them, and was causing the system to crash with a BSOD every half an hour or so. As i said...
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    Question Did faulty PSU damage my motherboard?

    the The brand is called Keep Out and i dont know anything besides that, not even the capacity because it wasnt written anywhere on it.
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    Question Did faulty PSU damage my motherboard?

    Hi, here is my rig: MBD: Asus Maximus Hero VIII CPU: I7-6700 (temps around 29°C idle, 75°C max) GPU: GTX 1070 Ti RAM: 12GB (3 x 4GB) Storage: 2 x SATA SSD (both fairly new) PSU: Thermaltake Smart BM2 650W (new) This rig was stable and working for about 5 years, recently however, PC started...