About 6 days ago I transferred my PC from upstairs to downstairs and before the transfer it had run fine for over a year. I had a few cans of air duster and gave it a clean out, which went absolutely fine until I was dusting the PSU and being the idiot I am, tipped the can too far and gave a quick blast of liquid. I decided to leave the PC for 24 hours to be safe and went out to a friends house. I came back later to find my partner had come home and hooked it back up about 2 hours after I did that.
Over the next few days there were some weird problems but nothing too drastic. To start with about Half the screen look like it is ghosting with horizontal flashing lines, that lasted around 1-2 minutes then cleared up. I have had a few graphical boot up errors where the screen was not displaying correctly and required a reboot as it was unusable, it looked zoomed in, lots of large dots... hard one to describe? both problems seemed graphics related and I thought I might have damaged the card so I checked it was seated and replaced the cable going to the monitor and I have not had any problems for the last few days.
I left the PC running overnight and when I came downstairs the next morning I found "Power Surge on the Hub Port" and have been getting that error repeatedly every few hours for the last few days. I only have a wireless mouse adapter, keyboard with it's own power supply (Logitech G19) and 5.1 surround headphones attached and they all work fine every time the message comes up.
I read that PSU's failing can cause multiple hardware errors and the USB problem can be another sign of it. Now add my Air duster Incident and I get the impression it "could" be PSU. I can usually Google my way out of a software problem but hardware has been good to me over the years and I have never really needed to replace anything, so I have little experience in this area and also do not have any spare parts to swap out to test it either, is there a way to tell what is causing the problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Robert
Over the next few days there were some weird problems but nothing too drastic. To start with about Half the screen look like it is ghosting with horizontal flashing lines, that lasted around 1-2 minutes then cleared up. I have had a few graphical boot up errors where the screen was not displaying correctly and required a reboot as it was unusable, it looked zoomed in, lots of large dots... hard one to describe? both problems seemed graphics related and I thought I might have damaged the card so I checked it was seated and replaced the cable going to the monitor and I have not had any problems for the last few days.
I left the PC running overnight and when I came downstairs the next morning I found "Power Surge on the Hub Port" and have been getting that error repeatedly every few hours for the last few days. I only have a wireless mouse adapter, keyboard with it's own power supply (Logitech G19) and 5.1 surround headphones attached and they all work fine every time the message comes up.
I read that PSU's failing can cause multiple hardware errors and the USB problem can be another sign of it. Now add my Air duster Incident and I get the impression it "could" be PSU. I can usually Google my way out of a software problem but hardware has been good to me over the years and I have never really needed to replace anything, so I have little experience in this area and also do not have any spare parts to swap out to test it either, is there a way to tell what is causing the problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Robert
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