Question Faulty PSU?

[ZeyadBB]

The PSU is only 5 months old, my PC for the last month or so was randomly shutting down & restarting immediately with the kernel power 41 (63) event in Event Viewer, it was either at idle or during use, searches turned up that the most likely culprit is the PSU, but I decided to do tests first using memtest & OCCT, as well as resetting any OC I did & resetting BIOS to default.

Then, yesterday the PC shut down randomly again, but this time the PC didn't turn back on with no power going through, as in keyboard & mouse not receiving power and PC not responding to the power button, until I plugged the power cord to another opening on the power adapter, as soon as I did that I started hearing popping noises coming from the PC and I unplugged it immediately out of fear.

Is that definitely the PSU? Did I do damage to the rest of my PC?

PSU is EVGA 500 BR.

Specs:

CPU: i3 9100f
RAM: 16GB
GPU: RX 570 4GB
2 fans
1 SSD, 1 HDD

Thanks.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

PSU is EVGA 500 BR

Is that definitely the PSU? Did I do damage to the rest of my PC?

this is a very low quality unit.
it wouldn't surprise me at all that it has just failed while pushing this system.

the possibility that it also could've damaged connected components is always there.
but, you'd have to connect them to known working unit to verify for sure.

 

[geofelt]

Your psu has a 3 year warranty which is not indicative of a high quality unit.
Better power supplies will carry 7/10/12 year warranties.


The only way to test for a bad psu is to replace it with a known good psu of sufficient capability.
If the psu was faulty, I doubt it caused any damage.
Borrow a replacement to test with if you can.

If possible, I would return it. Otherwise initiate a RMA for a replacement.