Question Can faulty PSU make BSOD?

[litwicki23]

Hello. My question. Can faulty psu make a BSOD? I mean just BSOD and pc reboot ( without shutdown ). Or not?
Or if psu is faulty then system always shutdown and then reboot.

 

[Groveling_Wyrm]

Yes, a failing PSU can cause issues such as that. Some PSU's fail completely, some dye a slow death, taking other components with them, and usually corrupt the O.S. when they fail.

 

[litwicki23]

I left Metro Exodus running by character standing on the same place for 12 hours. When i back to home i press ESC and while exiting from game mission to MAIN MENU ( moment where GPU LOAD drops ) i get BLACK SCREEN and no monitor signal for 1 minute, and crash to desktop with TDR driver crash in event log. After that i log off from system and log back in again and system rebooted unexpected. ( not shutdown but only reboot )

I dont have any other issues with stability in games. It happened once. Thx also not able to reproduce. Very weird.

C:/Windows/minidump ,not exist. C:/Windows/memory.dmp not exist.

Here is screens from dump file ---> C:/Windows/Livekernelreports/pow32Kwatchdog.dmp <--only that file appear. I think it is related to that pc reboot but not sure.

"A callout to Win32k did not return promptly"

https://i.postimg.cc/xCv9gqjd/w1.jpg

https://imgur.com/01kGvUb

View: https://i.imgur.com/01kGvUb.jpg


It was psue issue or not?

Also my gpu drivers is from november 2019. Windows 10 up to date.