Recent content by skullcruncher

Sadly, no. I bought a new one and it still keeps doing the same thing. Which leaves it down to the motherboard or the CPU.

Hello friends, as the question suggests, I have a problem when booting windows. I'll get right to the point and explain what I tried. Sometimes during the loading windows 10 screen, the circle with dots when its loading freezes/stops and my PC shuts down in a period of 15-20 seconds. Sometimes...

I think it's safe to say that it was the PSU, there are no more driver failures, BSODs, HDD weird noises and hitting up to 100% constantly. I somehow knew that it was the PSU, due to its age and unfamiliar maker which was confirmed by Ralston18. Thanks mate, you made someone very happy indeed...

Okay PSU it is then, I will take few days to replace the current PSU with another better one (eVGA 500W) and let you know if that did the trick. Thank you for your information and help Ralston18, I'll post an update on this issue in the upcoming days.

Yes sorry, the PSU is NaviaTEC 500W, but I can hardly see that it is a problem because it served me well even 4-5 years from when I first bought it. About the reliability history, it shows many random critical errors. Windows shut down unexpectedly, Windows hardware error, Windows was not...

Hello everyone, I will try to explain this as clear as possible and will go through all the details that I tried to solve this. This began rather anonymously from what I remember, and I seem to be having my HDD at 100% usage constantly or randomly, when opening any program or when playing...