Question I'm not sure what's the issue causing this to my PC...

[Riuzaki]

Hello,

Well, It's been 4 years of my Gaming PC I build for myself. It was my first time so I might purchased some components which you'll tell that I made mistake maybe. Anyways let's fast forward,

From these several months I noticed my PC got into so many blue screen crashes like so much. My windows was genuine, no virus, nothing. All games were purchased. But I was unable to detect the problem. After some time the blue screen error got solved automatically but then after somedays, I noticed my PC turns off itself while using, then some more days later my PC Failed to Start. Whenever I used to click the power on button nothing happened. Then suddenly sometimes it used to boots up out of no where with a single click.

But now, it doesn't boot up at all. Nothing happens whenever i clicks the power button. I think the issue is with PSU maybe it got fused. But the thing confuses me is, the PC is not turning ON while the switches are plugged on the bored but then why my RGB mouse and RGB headset lights are running perfectly? If there's Issue with PSU?

The RBG lights of my mouse and headset used to light up right after plugging the switches on the board, and the keyboard RBG used to light up after the PC successful Boot up.

From my knowledge maybe PSU is the culprit? Having issues to generate enough watt to boot up the PC but has enough power to atleast light up the components RBG? What's your thoughts, please do tell me.

My components -

Motherboard - Gigabyte A320
Ram - G-Skill 3200MHz 8x2 GB
Storage - 250GB SSD, 2 HDD (1TB)
Processor - Ryzen 5 2400G
PSU - Antec B450P non modular
Graphics card - (not yet, but till this year I'll get rx6600 for sure)

 

[Misgar]

ATX PSUs generate a 5VSB rail which is "always on" when the power supply is plugged into the AC mains. Depending on your motherboard, some items plugged into USB ports will remain active (e.g. illuminated).

This facility can be useful to charge batteries in external devices when the computer is switched "off" (in reality it's still running in standby mode). That explains why you may see LEDs illuminated on peripherals plugged into the PC.

As to the reason for your problem, it might be the PSU. Equally well, it could be a dead CPU, duff RAM or a faulty graphics card. Without slowly replacing each item in turn, it's difficult to say.

The problem with troubleshooting is it can be expensive and frustrating to work out what component has gone wrong. I agree the PSU is a possible culprit. Do you have a working spare you can borrow, or remove from another PC?

 

[Riuzaki]

ATX PSUs generate a 5VSB rail which is "always on" when the power supply is plugged into the AC mains. Depending on your motherboard, some items plugged into USB ports will remain active (e.g. illuminated).

This facility can be useful to charge batteries in external devices when the computer is switched "off" (in reality it's still running in standby mode). That explains why you may see LEDs illuminated on peripherals plugged into the PC.

As to the reason for your problem, it might be the PSU. Equally well, it could be a dead CPU, duff RAM or a faulty graphics card. Without slowly replacing each item in turn, it's difficult to say.

The problem with troubleshooting is it can be expensive and frustrating to work out what component has gone wrong. I agree the PSU is a possible culprit. Do you have a working spare you can borrow, or remove from another PC?

Now it's clear why some of my components are illuminating. But as you said, replacing each and every part will be so expensive for me and I can't borrow nor I've some spare. I guess I should buy a new PSU. I'm 99% sure PSU is the culprit because if the CPU was dead then In the BIOS it showed me CPU failures also I've two ram sticks of 8GB each. I tried to boot up on one single channel with each ram stick separately. I don't have a graphics card, I use Vega 11 graphics of rayen 2400G.

 

[Nighthawk117]

When you tried each RAM stick separately, were they running at default speed or with XMP enabled?

 

[Riuzaki]

When you tried each RAM stick separately, were they running at default speed or with XMP enabled?

2-3 days before and yeah it was running on XMP from the starting. Also it's worth noticing that when my PC was working, one day I removed the ram stick for cleaning and re-installed wrongly, so on the boot up my PC gave me beeps indicating that I'm having issues with ram. And I installed it Correctly it didn't gave me any beeps and successfully started. So if there was a problem with RAM, I would get beeps like before, but i haven't got any beeps.

 

[Nighthawk117]

2-3 days before and yeah it was running on XMP from the starting. Also it's worth noticing that when my PC was working, one day I removed the ram stick for cleaning and re-installed wrongly, so on the boot up my PC gave me beeps indicating that I'm having issues with ram. And I installed it Correctly it didn't gave me any beeps and successfully started. So if there was a problem with RAM, I would get beeps like before, but i haven't got any beeps.

The only reason I ask is because I've had issues with RAM multiple times on Ryzen, so if you have instability my first port of call is always to try running the RAM at it's default speed of 2133Mhz and see if stability improves. I assume by installed wrongly you just mean you put it in the wrong slot?

Recently I had a 3800X build that wouldn't get through a 10 minute Cinebench run without restarting. It was just the RAM speed that was too fast. Just because there are no beeps does not mean there is not a problem with RAM.

 

[Riuzaki]

The only reason I ask is because I've had issues with RAM multiple times on Ryzen, so if you have instability my first port of call is always to try running the RAM at it's default speed of 2133Mhz and see if stability improves. I assume by installed wrongly you just mean you put it in the wrong slot?

Recently I had a 3800X build that wouldn't get through a 10 minute Cinebench run without restarting. It was just the RAM speed that was too fast. Just because there are no beeps does not mean there is not a problem with RAM.

Well i wish if i could set the XMP to default but I can't because in order to change it I must need to enter in the BIOS. But sadly my pc isn't powering ON at all.

 

[Nighthawk117]

Well i wish if i could set the XMP to default but I can't because in order to change it I must need to enter in the BIOS. But sadly my pc isn't powering ON at all.

The random shutdowns and failure to start do point to a PSU issue. Difficult to be sure though without testing individual components.

 

[Riuzaki]

The random shutdowns and failure to start do point to a PSU issue. Difficult to be sure though without testing individual components.

Yeah exactly I'm thinking the same. I guess i gotta take a chance and replace the PSU. Changing every single part is way too expensive for me.

 

[XxDarkMario20xX]

Yeah exactly I'm thinking the same. I guess i gotta take a chance and replace the PSU. Changing every single part is way too expensive for me.

Yeah because my PC was going off instant for some strange reason had to replace ram and that did not help turned out to be my new PSU. You can always return things withen 14 days or more or less. PSU is like heart of the computer powers on everything. but if your thinking off getting the GPU would it be best to get the PSU for that GPU now to get ready! Google says The RX 6600XT requires a minimum of 500 watts so if your thinking getting new PSU maybe 650W-750W will be good!

 

[Riuzaki]

Thanks for suggestions and sharing your experience with me. I would really appreciate you if you suggest me some good budget gaming PSUs. 550W will be enough I guess? Because I'm gonna add a graphics card this year for sure. Rx6600

 

[scout_03]

check this for psu https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/psu...plus-gold-fully-modular-atx-psu-cp-9020198-na also if you get a rx 6600 you might be bootleneck with cpu and board not able to follow the gpu .