Question Help with my pc !!

[funnycat1403]

Hello.

My pc froze yesterday and i had to unplug the psu, after the freeze my pc was power cycling.
I found a red light on my motherboard for my cpu.

I have had this computer bulit for 3+ months. No problems.

I have windows 10.
I updated the computer and this happened after updating on the home screen.
It was a security update.

My specs are.

Z490 arours master gigabyte motherboard
Intel 10900kf watercooled cpu
32gb of ram corsiar vengance
I have a hardrive and m.2
Xion 1000 watt psu
Msi 1080 ti
I didnt overclock my cpu, gpu and ram.
My m.2 is my windows 10 boot drive.

please help if you can..

Thank you !!

 

[DSzymborski]

The PSU is pretty suspicious; this has to be 15 years old, and I remember Xion selling a lot of high wattage group-regulated PSUs.

 

[Misgar]

Xion 1000 watt psu

To amplify @DSzymborski's comments, check out this thread about a Xion 1000W PSU from 2013:
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/xion-power-supply-good-or-bad.177312/

If your PSU is "group regulated" and well outside its warranty period, given the symptoms, I'd stop using it immediately and buy a new one.

When an old (poorly designed) PSU dies, it sometimes kills the motherboard/CPU/RAM/GPU with excess voltage. If you're lucky, all your components apart from the PSU may still be OK. Fingers crossed.

If a PSU goes bang, sometimes accompanied by a bright flash of light or "magic smoke", it may be too late to save the rest of the computer.

PSUs don't last forever. Electrolytic capacitors dry out and ripple voltages increase. Above a certain level, this can damage the mobo, etc.

Low-end PSUs usually come with short warranties e.g. 1 to 3 years. Mid-range PSUs often come with 5 to 7 year warranties. High-end PSUs with 10 to 12 years.

If your Xion is 12 years old and low-end, I'm surprised it's lasted this long.

For some light reading, check this out!
https://linustechtips.com/topic/112...-units-shouldnt-be-boughtsold-in-2019-and-on/

 

[funnycat1403]

To amplify @DSzymborski's comments, check out this thread about a Xion 1000W PSU from 2013:
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/xion-power-supply-good-or-bad.177312/

If your PSU is "group regulated" and well outside its warranty period, given the symptoms, I'd stop using it immediately and buy a new one.

When an old (poorly designed) PSU dies, it sometimes kills the motherboard/CPU/RAM/GPU with excess voltage. If you're lucky, all your components apart from the PSU may still be OK. Fingers crossed.

If a PSU goes bang, sometimes accompanied by a bright flash of light or "magic smoke", it may be too late to save the rest of the computer.

PSUs don't last forever. Electrolytic capacitors dry out and ripple voltages increase. Above a certain level, this can damage the mobo, etc.

Low-end PSUs usually come with short warranties e.g. 1 to 3 years. Mid-range PSUs often come with 5 to 7 year warranties. High-end PSUs with 10 to 12 years.

If your Xion is 12 years old and low-end, I'm surprised it's lasted this long.

For some light reading, check this out!
https://linustechtips.com/topic/112...-units-shouldnt-be-boughtsold-in-2019-and-on/

Thanks. Yeah me and my uncle bulit my pc a long time ago but i upgraded and had the same psu. I dont know when he got it.

 

[funnycat1403]

The PSU is pretty suspicious; this has to be 15 years old, and I remember Xion selling a lot of high wattage group-regulated PSUs.

I much appreciate your help. God bless. Me and my uncle bulit my pc a long time ago, and i upgraded, i kept the same psu. No idea how long ago he got it.
I told him it was the psu, he didnt think so.

 

[funnycat1403]

To amplify @DSzymborski's comments, check out this thread about a Xion 1000W PSU from 2013:
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/xion-power-supply-good-or-bad.177312/

If your PSU is "group regulated" and well outside its warranty period, given the symptoms, I'd stop using it immediately and buy a new one.

When an old (poorly designed) PSU dies, it sometimes kills the motherboard/CPU/RAM/GPU with excess voltage. If you're lucky, all your components apart from the PSU may still be OK. Fingers crossed.

If a PSU goes bang, sometimes accompanied by a bright flash of light or "magic smoke", it may be too late to save the rest of the computer.

PSUs don't last forever. Electrolytic capacitors dry out and ripple voltages increase. Above a certain level, this can damage the mobo, etc.

Low-end PSUs usually come with short warranties e.g. 1 to 3 years. Mid-range PSUs often come with 5 to 7 year warranties. High-end PSUs with 10 to 12 years.

If your Xion is 12 years old and low-end, I'm surprised it's lasted this long.

For some light reading, check this out!
https://linustechtips.com/topic/112...-units-shouldnt-be-boughtsold-in-2019-and-on/

Thanks for the link from 2013.