Hello! I have had this lasting issue with my machine and would very much like your help solving it, since I really can't wrap my head around it, so let me start off by explaining all that happened.
It was a usual gaming day, I was playing a typical game on my machine, then it froze, unresponsive, I shut it off on the power and turned it back on, the HDD was not being recognized by the ASUS motherboard, I panicked and took my computer to my friend, he said there was something wrong with the motherboard settings, he fixed it and then we also installed a new HDD since my last one was getting old, fast forward a few days and...
I go to turn my machine on, and the DVD reader makes an absurdly loud noise and the computer cannot turn on properly, so I remove it and now it is turning on properly, but I have this issue that has been haunting me for months, where whenever I play high end games, or put my power plan to very high, the computer instantly shuts down or BSODs (varies from game to game), I also noticed my HDD stops working (as in simply stops spinning and shuts down on it's own), so I have to resort to putting my power plan on low otherwise my PC will shut down or BSOD very fast on certain games, also checking the event viewer it gives me kernel-power 41, saying there was a lack of power.
My specs are:
Intel Core I5
1TB HDD
8GB RAM
ASUS motherboard
NVIDIA GTX 640
500w PSU
Keeping in mind my PSU is 6 months old, and the rig is overall 3 years old, I cannot tell what is exactly the problem, I've guessed between PSU, GPU, mobo or even my own power plug on the wall, I also noticed my GPU used to be able to access 1920x1080 resolutions, now it is restricted only to 1600x1200, it is not an overheating issue as I have checked with software during high end games, so what gives, my FPS on some games used to run supreme, now it is much lower, though I am not sure if that's my GPU or the fact I run at a low power plan. There are so many variants me and my friend cannot tell what it really is, he thinks it is a PSU issue, but also states he isn't too sure, I'm really low on money so I can't risk buying anything other than a definite part to fix this.
It was a usual gaming day, I was playing a typical game on my machine, then it froze, unresponsive, I shut it off on the power and turned it back on, the HDD was not being recognized by the ASUS motherboard, I panicked and took my computer to my friend, he said there was something wrong with the motherboard settings, he fixed it and then we also installed a new HDD since my last one was getting old, fast forward a few days and...
I go to turn my machine on, and the DVD reader makes an absurdly loud noise and the computer cannot turn on properly, so I remove it and now it is turning on properly, but I have this issue that has been haunting me for months, where whenever I play high end games, or put my power plan to very high, the computer instantly shuts down or BSODs (varies from game to game), I also noticed my HDD stops working (as in simply stops spinning and shuts down on it's own), so I have to resort to putting my power plan on low otherwise my PC will shut down or BSOD very fast on certain games, also checking the event viewer it gives me kernel-power 41, saying there was a lack of power.
My specs are:
Intel Core I5
1TB HDD
8GB RAM
ASUS motherboard
NVIDIA GTX 640
500w PSU
Keeping in mind my PSU is 6 months old, and the rig is overall 3 years old, I cannot tell what is exactly the problem, I've guessed between PSU, GPU, mobo or even my own power plug on the wall, I also noticed my GPU used to be able to access 1920x1080 resolutions, now it is restricted only to 1600x1200, it is not an overheating issue as I have checked with software during high end games, so what gives, my FPS on some games used to run supreme, now it is much lower, though I am not sure if that's my GPU or the fact I run at a low power plan. There are so many variants me and my friend cannot tell what it really is, he thinks it is a PSU issue, but also states he isn't too sure, I'm really low on money so I can't risk buying anything other than a definite part to fix this.
