Question Do I need a new power supply unit? PSU Issues

[BangkokChris]

PSU Issues​

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Hello ! Any advise would be great​

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History- issues started 1 month ago. Chrome would need to be restarted, tabs would not work or the whole computer needed to be restarted.​

went to cmd and run powercfg -energy

fist report found many errors, which I was able to fix.

Still have not had enough time to see the full affects of the changes. Still had to restart at least once or twice.
PSU is 5+ years old

Windows 7, desktop, i5 Intel, sound and audio cards
not a gaming computer, some Steam games

Question- Do I need to replace PSU, if so, minimum watts?

Thanks in advance..........

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Power Efficiency Diagnostics Report​

Computer Name	USER-PC
Scan Time	2023-08-14T01:24:48Z
Scan Duration	60 seconds
System Manufacturer	Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Product Name	H81M-DS2
BIOS Date	08/06/2015
BIOS Version	F2
OS Build	7601
Platform Role	PlatformRoleDesktop
Plugged In	true
Process Count	66
Thread Count	1054
Report GUID	{eec5596e-cef6-4095-8180-3f55ab61bde3}

Analysis Results​

Errors​

Platform Power Management Capabilities😛CI Express Active-State Power Management (ASPM) Disabled
PCI Express Active-State Power Management (ASPM) has been disabled due to a known incompatibility with the hardware in this computer.

Warnings​

Power Policy:802.11 Radio Power Policy is Maximum Performance (Plugged In)
The current power policy for 802.11-compatible wireless network adapters is not configured to use low-power modes.

Information​

Platform Timer Resolution😛latform Timer Resolution
The default platform timer resolution is 15.6ms (15625000ns) and should be used whenever the system is idle. If the timer resolution is increased, processor power management technologies may not be effective. The timer resolution may be increased due to multimedia playback or graphical animations.

Current Timer Resolution (100ns units)

156000

Power Policy:Active Power Plan
The current power plan in use

Plan Name	OEM Balanced
Plan GUID	{381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e}

Power Policy😛ower Plan Personality (Plugged In)
The personality of the current power plan when the system is plugged in.

Personality

Balanced

Power Policy:Video quality (Plugged In)
Enables Windows Media Player to optimize for quality or power savings when playing video.

Quality Mode

Optimize for Video Quality

System Availability Requests:Analysis Success
Analysis was successful. No energy efficiency problems were found. No information was returned.
USB Suspend:Analysis Success
Analysis was successful. No energy efficiency problems were found. No information was returned.
CPU Utilization😛rocessor utilization is low
The average processor utilization during the trace was very low. The system will consume less power when the average processor utilization is very low.

Average Utilization (%)

1.06

Battery:Analysis Success
Analysis was successful. No energy efficiency problems were found. No information was returned.
Platform Power Management Capabilities:Supported Sleep States
Sleep states allow the computer to enter low-power modes after a period of inactivity. The S3 sleep state is the default sleep state for Windows platforms. The S3 sleep state consumes only enough power to preserve memory contents and allow the computer to resume working quickly. Very few platforms support the S1 or S2 Sleep states.

S1 Sleep Supported	false
S2 Sleep Supported	false
S3 Sleep Supported	true
S4 Sleep Supported	true

Platform Power Management Capabilities😛rocessor Power Management Capabilities
Effective processor power management enables the computer to automatically balance performance and energy consumption.

Group	0
Index	0
Idle (C) State Count	2
Performance (P) State Count	16
Throttle (T) State Count	0

Platform Power Management Capabilities😛rocessor Power Management Capabilities
Effective processor power management enables the computer to automatically balance performance and energy consumption.

Group	0
Index	1
Idle (C) State Count	2
Performance (P) State Count	16
Throttle (T) State Count	0

Platform Power Management Capabilities😛rocessor Power Management Capabilities
Effective processor power management enables the computer to automatically balance performance and energy consumption.

Group	0
Index	2
Idle (C) State Count	2
Performance (P) State Count	16
Throttle (T) State Count	0

Platform Power Management Capabilities😛rocessor Power Management Capabilities
Effective processor power management enables the computer to automatically balance performance and energy consumption.

Group	0
Index	3
Idle (C) State Count	2
Performance (P) State Count	16
Throttle (T) State Count	0

 

[BFG-9000]

You need to replace Chrome as it hasn't been supported since January.

Firefox 115 ESR still supports Windows 7 until September 2024. If it's anything like XP was this will start getting more buggy over time too.

 

[DSzymborski]

Let's get a full list of specs, including *exact* PSU. You can't diagnose a PSU with a Windows diagnostic.

 

[BangkokChris]

"Let's get a full list of specs, including *exact* PSU" newbie........ exactly how does one get this data?

 

[DSzymborski]

"Let's get a full list of specs, including *exact* PSU" newbie........ exactly how does one get this data?

Things like Speccy can tell you some of the equipment. The PSU you have to identify by looking at it.

The easiest way to find the specs otherwise would be to check the documentation from when you purchased it. Presumably you chose to buy the PC based on something!

 

[BangkokChris]

You need to replace Chrome as it hasn't been supported since January.

Firefox 115 ESR still supports Windows 7 until September 2024. If it's anything like XP was this will start getting more buggy over time too.

Thank You