Could these be symptoms of a dying power supply?

[rdfiasco]

I've been having several issues that seem to have cropped up randomly over the past few months. I can't tie these to any particular software or hardware change, which is making me suspect that my Corsair TX650 PSU is dying on me. These are the symptoms I have seen:

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  ■ Computer consistently takes at least two attempts to boot, sometimes more. When I hit the power button, LEDs will light and fans will spin for a split second, then it will suddenly stop and try again in a few seconds.
  ■ Seemingly random crashes to a plain grey, blue, or green screen. No error message, just a sudden loss of picture and sound. Has happened both under heavy load and during light use
  ■ Occasional GPU driver crashes with an error message that the driver has crashed but recovered
  ■ Second display will have no picture after waking from sleep (possibly unrelated; that monitor is nearly 10 years old).

I've run a memory test and it passed. I've monitored temps and voltages at times, and everything seems normal. Is it likely it's the PSU?

Specs:
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
FX-8350
2x8GB Mushkin Stealth DDR3 @ 1600 MHz
EVGA GTX 970 FTW+
Samsung 840 EVO
Corsair TX650
Windows 10 64 bit

Happy to provide any additional information needed. Your help is much appreciated!

 

[Hamperking68]

This seems to be more motherboard related as if the PSU was faulty you would be more likely to lose power instead.

 

[laviniuc]

how old is the psu?

you have any other graphics card to swap it with? one drawing less power maybe? if the symptoms are the same with a less hungry graphics card - which is what usually draws the most power - the psu is not to blame, maybe...

but other then trying another psu there's not much else to try, drop any oc off the cpu/graphics too

 

[xXCrossfireXx]

I've been having several issues that seem to have cropped up randomly over the past few months. I can't tie these to any particular software or hardware change, which is making me suspect that my Corsair TX650 PSU is dying on me. These are the symptoms I have seen:

• 
  ■ Computer consistently takes at least two attempts to boot, sometimes more. When I hit the power button, LEDs will light and fans will spin for a split second, then it will suddenly stop and try again in a few seconds.
  ■ Seemingly random crashes to a plain grey, blue, or green screen. No error message, just a sudden loss of picture and sound. Has happened both under heavy load and during light use
  ■ Occasional GPU driver crashes with an error message that the driver has crashed but recovered
  ■ Second display will have no picture after waking from sleep (possibly unrelated; that monitor is nearly 10 years old).

I've run a memory test and it passed. I've monitored temps and voltages at times, and everything seems normal. Is it likely it's the PSU?

Specs:
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
FX-8350
2x8GB Mushkin Stealth DDR3 @ 1600 MHz
EVGA GTX 970 FTW+
Samsung 840 EVO
Corsair TX650
Windows 10 64 bit

Happy to provide any additional information needed. Your help is much appreciated!

Do you have a motherboard speaker plugged in?

This sounds like a motherboard issue, besides the two times to boot issue

 

[rdfiasco]

how old is the psu?

you have any other graphics card to swap it with? one drawing less power maybe? if the symptoms are the same with a less hungry graphics card - which is what usually draws the most power - the psu is not to blame, maybe...

but other then trying another psu there's not much else to try, drop any oc off the cpu/graphics too

PSU is about 3 years old. I can try switching out the GPU, but the only other one I have ATM is pretty dodgy. I reset my CPU OC to default last night and I had another lockup literally right after making this post. All I was doing was browsing the web.

Do you have a motherboard speaker plugged in?

This sounds like a motherboard issue, besides the two times to boot issue

I didn't have a motherboard speaker so I ordered one and just recently installed it. All has been normal so far (1 short beep) although just barely I had 1 long beep. Haven't been able to determine what that means.

 

[xXCrossfireXx]

how old is the psu?

you have any other graphics card to swap it with? one drawing less power maybe? if the symptoms are the same with a less hungry graphics card - which is what usually draws the most power - the psu is not to blame, maybe...

but other then trying another psu there's not much else to try, drop any oc off the cpu/graphics too

PSU is about 3 years old. I can try switching out the GPU, but the only other one I have ATM is pretty dodgy. I reset my CPU OC to default last night and I had another lockup literally right after making this post. All I was doing was browsing the web.

Do you have a motherboard speaker plugged in?

This sounds like a motherboard issue, besides the two times to boot issue

I didn't have a motherboard speaker so I ordered one and just recently installed it. All has been normal so far (1 short beep) although just barely I had 1 long beep. Haven't been able to determine what that means.

You should be able to find out by a google search. Here's a link:

http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

 

[rdfiasco]

how old is the psu?

you have any other graphics card to swap it with? one drawing less power maybe? if the symptoms are the same with a less hungry graphics card - which is what usually draws the most power - the psu is not to blame, maybe...

but other then trying another psu there's not much else to try, drop any oc off the cpu/graphics too

PSU is about 3 years old. I can try switching out the GPU, but the only other one I have ATM is pretty dodgy. I reset my CPU OC to default last night and I had another lockup literally right after making this post. All I was doing was browsing the web.

Do you have a motherboard speaker plugged in?

This sounds like a motherboard issue, besides the two times to boot issue

I didn't have a motherboard speaker so I ordered one and just recently installed it. All has been normal so far (1 short beep) although just barely I had 1 long beep. Haven't been able to determine what that means.

You should be able to find out by a google search. Here's a link:

http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

Google hasn't been helpful identifying this beep code. Gigabyte's website doesn't list it.

 

[rdfiasco]

Any ideas on what I can do to either confirm or rule out the motherboard as the issue?

 

[Hamperking68]

I would confirm this a motherboard issue.

 

[rdfiasco]

I would confirm this a motherboard issue.

Any way to test that?

 

[rdfiasco]

I'll ask once more -- any way to confirm this is a motherboard issue? If it is, could it have been caused by overclocking? I wouldn't want to damage a replacement board.

 

[xXCrossfireXx]

I'll ask once more -- any way to confirm this is a motherboard issue? If it is, could it have been caused by overclocking? I wouldn't want to damage a replacement board.

Overclocking usually damages the CPU, never heard of a motherboard damaged by overclocking