faulty psu

Forum discussion tagged with faulty psu.
  1. Yub

    Question Am I right in believing my PSU is defective?

    This past week has been hell for me in trying to fix my pc. But I've learned soooooo much more about PC's. I'll give you the full rundown- Last week I bought a new Ryzen 5 5500 and stupidly, I didn't know that would mean I have to buy a new motherboard since they use different slots than Intel...
  2. Trying to by 4070

    Question Is a 750w PSU enough for an RTX 4070 Ti ?

    So, is 750W Gigabyte PSU enough for the 3-fan RTX 4070 TI 12gb ? I might do some overclocking. SPECS: rtx 4070ti i7 13700kf rtx 4060 32GB ddr5 1tb nvme 1tb hdd z750 plus wifi asus tuf gaming motherboard
  3. J

    Question PC dead again a month after replacing the PSU ?

    A bit over a month ago I came here because my PC wouldn't turn on, and there were sparking/buzzing sounds coming from near where the PSU was. I assumed it was the PSU, especially since my other one was 6 years old, and considered really bad. I replaced it with a Corsair RM750e and a belkin surge...
  4. Java0296

    Question My EVGA gtx 970 died could it have been PSU

    Hello all i was wondering if you could help me sort this out. As a little bit of background i used to have my gpu on an older system and often had the problem that my pc would turn on but wont start and after many resets it would work normally. I changed all my components but my gpu and HDD and...
  5. A

    [SOLVED] Faulty PSU?

    For the past 5 days or so my PC has been randomly turning off, then after about 2-3 seconds it turns back on again. I cant seem to find any pattern to when it happens, sometimes its when i enter bios, sometimes its after 4 hours, sometimes after 3 minutes. I went into the event viewer and saw...
  6. AgentF03

    [SOLVED] System randomly restarts

    Hi... So my PC started randomly restarting 3 Months ago... it came out of no where and the System worked perfectly fine before. The Eventlog showed a fatal Error: Kernel-Power, Event-ID: 41. First things I did were changing settings in my system, updating all the drivers (BIOS, GPU, CPU, etc.)...
  7. zac9500

    [SOLVED] Brand new PSU fan stuck at 100% speed!?

    Hi all, I've just picked up a BeQuiet! Dark Power Pro 11 1000w Platinum PSU. I've built my PC, it's all working fine, except I noticed one fan was always really loud. I set all fans to 500rpm in the BIOS and it was still there, checked again and it's my PSU fan. It's running at 100% speed...
  8. bufer

    [SOLVED] PC shuts down and turns on immediately up to 5 times a day.

    My PC just shuts down itself and back on and off and on..... up to 5 times constantly. event viewer shows kernel-power and distributedCOM errors. I think either the PSU or motherboard is faulty, maybe both. I tried OCCT vga/psu test and it turned off after 10 minutes. It did not crash but...
  9. J

    [SOLVED] 2080 burnt connector pins?! What do i do now?

    Hi everyone, I've got a 2080 and 3700x on a hardline loop. Have had it for a while now. I had to replace a faulty power supply (Silver Stone strider gold 850w), because it would just power off my pc almost immediately when turning on. Long story short, i did buy it new, but cannot claim...
  10. Angel Keidran

    [SOLVED] Do I really need a 80plus gold PSU for Modern Warfare?

    I'm going to replace my faulty PSU with a new one, I calculated that i need at least 306 Watts on my rig (used coolermaster wattage calculator) and my question is: Do i Really need a 80plus gaming PSU to go back and play actively Modern Warfare/Warzone or can i choose even a White/bronze/silver...
  11. IAmNotOkayOk

    Question PC Video Stops Audio Stutters Constantly USB Devices Still On Have to Manually Reboot

    I am having a problem which the title describes. I suspect it's a faulty PSU, but I want to be sure that is the problem. Nothing is overheating when this happens everything is normal until randomly the audio does that thing like when you remove a gameboy cartage while it's still on, and my...
  12. H

    [SOLVED] Is my PC overheating while gaming

    Hello folks, I was enjoying the Fortnite live event that occurred on the 15th this month and it has some pretty insane visuals. After a few minutes my PC started making a weird grinding noise and the fans had some sort of suppressed sound. My temps on idle are pretty solid but I don't know if...
  13. L

    Question PC Randomly Reboots and then Wont start

    My computer restarts when i play games (not all but the demanding ones) and when it tries to reboot all the fans and leds are lit but it wont even post, until i turn to power supply off then on again AND i let it chill for 5 minutes. If i try to turn it off and on and reboot it it will just...
  14. G

    Question Faulty motherboard or PSU ???

    Hi all, My rig is the following atm (an old rig actually with an updated GPU): CPU: i7 920 overclocked @ 3.6 GPU: evga gtx 1060 superclocked Motherboard: Gigabyte EX58-Extreme RAM: 12gb DDR3 triple channel Monitor: 1920 x 1200 PSU: 1200W Thermaltake I have some serious issues the last couple...
  15. R

    [SOLVED] Faulty PSU

    Hi everyone, right so my power supply is a EVGA Supernova NEX 750G1 PSU. On start up the fan spins then stops, no power! How ever if i give it a blast of compressed air it works perfectly and keeps running until I shut the pc down. I'm having to do this every time I start the pc now. My question...
  16. T

    [SOLVED] New PC no boot up or beep codes

    Mobo: msi krait gaming 3x Cpu: i5 7600k Ram: ddr4 2x8 3000mhz PSU: EVGA 750 bq Put a new computer together today with a power supply that was working this morning. Boot up and everything came to life but no display. Went over all cabling make sure everything was in properly. Boot again and same...
  17. Jin dew

    Question Current leak in smps outer body

    I have a biostar gt5 racing motherboard powered by 600w masterwatt lite smps. Today 2 phase were down , when power comes back , UPS started beeping crazy trying to turn on. I turn it off and restarted , ups didn't start. I took everything apart plugged smps directly to wall socket and it...
  18. aissypewdiepie

    Question My PC keeps restarting on random after installing a new PSU and RMAed mobo

    (I'm not sure which category to post this under since I'm not sure which component is actually faulty) I'm having a very weird problem. For quick context, 2 months ago my PSU exploded killing my mobo. 2 days ago I got my mobo RMAed and bought a brand new PSU (current specs at the bottom of the...
  19. apollote

    Question Which part is faulty?

    I have been getting lots of freezes lately where I cannot move my cursor or do anything. The fans and everything in my PC seems to still be running, but the display itself is frozen. I have to manually restart my computer by switching it on and off to fix it. These freezes happen while browsing...
  20. apollote

    [SOLVED] Do I have a faulty PSU?

    Don't want to make this too long, but I built my PC in December 2018. Ever since I built it, I have never been able to play an intensive game without it crashing my PC (note that the crash happens after 2-10 minutes after launching the game). I have considered faulty parts as the reason, but I...
  21. Joseph Acot

    when do you say you have overclocking stability?

    I am new to this overclocking culture a total noob. Anyway so I have an AMD FX 6300 3.5 ghz. Im using Prime95 (small FFT's) for testing stability. I was able to stabilize my CPU @ 4.1 ghz. I tested with small FFTs ran it for 11 hours with all workers still working. Like any other ambitious SOB...
  22. E

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  23. bilalmaqsood_4b

    GeForce GTX750 OC Slim 1GB

    Is it low profile card? http://www.galaxytech.com/__EN_GB__/Product2/ProductDetail?proID=519 Can this card fit inside this pc? HP DC7900 Small Form Factor .......................................... Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0 Ghz .......................................... Intel Q45...