Is it the PSU?

[Dieselakoc]

Two months ago I upgraded my GPU. With my previous gpu the games I played were very laggy but playable but with the new one I tested them and they were fine until this month. I was facing red screen of death and windows restart but I dont think its gpu the problem, because I opened the case to check for dust I find it clear and turned on my PC again. This time I no disk or dvd drive are recognized tried replugging both sata and power cable. Sometimes it worked but failing booting (blue screen of death after automatic repair) or it didnt work at all. Im wondering if its PSU failure all these problems or is it the motherboard?

 

[Rogue Leader]

Can you provide full system specs including the exact brand and model of the PSU (and everything else)

 

[Dieselakoc]

Can you provide full system specs including the exact brand and model of the PSU (and everything else)

Sorry for late response

PSU: ATX MS-N750 VAL 750W
Motherboard: MSI Eclipse SLI LGA 1366
GPU: Gigabyte Radeon RX460 4GB Windforce OC
CPU: Intel i7 920
RAM: 8GB

 

[Rogue Leader]

SO a cheap low end PSU. I would replace it either way. Not 100% sure that its the source of your issues though. Is there any consistency in your failures. Like is it when you play certain games or something?

 

[Dieselakoc]

SO a cheap low end PSU. I would replace it either way. Not 100% sure that its the source of your issues though. Is there any consistency in your failures. Like is it when you play certain games or something?

I havent noticed any certain consistency like blue screen of death or anything like that but I dont know if the reason that bios cant recognize my hard disk is because of PSU. Im not sure if the cables or the power it provdes are good enough for my system. But I also have my doubts about how good my mobo is at all.

 

[Rogue Leader]

SO a cheap low end PSU. I would replace it either way. Not 100% sure that its the source of your issues though. Is there any consistency in your failures. Like is it when you play certain games or something?

I havent noticed any certain consistency like blue screen of death or anything like that but I dont know if the reason that bios cant recognize my hard disk is because of PSU. Im not sure if the cables or the power it provdes are good enough for my system. But I also have my doubts about how good my mobo is at all.

Unless the PSU literally isn't powering up the hard drive it won't cause problems with it. If you suspect that have you tried swapping cables? Most PSUs have a couple of hard drive cables.

That motherboard while old is not a bad one. That said of course it could be failing as well but thats unlikely.

The weakest link in your system right now is the PSU, and even if you need to do a rebuild you will need a new one anyway so you may as well get a better one and eliminate it as a problem.

 

[Dieselakoc]

SO a cheap low end PSU. I would replace it either way. Not 100% sure that its the source of your issues though. Is there any consistency in your failures. Like is it when you play certain games or something?

I havent noticed any certain consistency like blue screen of death or anything like that but I dont know if the reason that bios cant recognize my hard disk is because of PSU. Im not sure if the cables or the power it provdes are good enough for my system. But I also have my doubts about how good my mobo is at all.

Unless the PSU literally isn't powering up the hard drive it won't cause problems with it. If you suspect that have you tried swapping cables? Most PSUs have a couple of hard drive cables.

That motherboard while old is not a bad one. That said of course it could be failing as well but thats unlikely.

The weakest link in your system right now is the PSU, and even if you need to do a rebuild you will need a new one anyway so you may as well get a better one and eliminate it as a problem.

Tomorrow I'll listen carefully if the hard drive does any powering sound while I'll be connecting it to different cables. Maybe I'll try a different PSU to see if there is any difference. I'll inform about the results.

 

[Dieselakoc]

I tried a corsair psu and it seems that my ATX psu has some issues because after connecting corsair my hard drive was detected immediately, but bios still cant boot hard drives. I tried 3 hard drives and after the windows splash logo it shows me the blue screen of death so I think the main problem is the motherboard, am i right?

 

[Rogue Leader]

I tried a corsair psu and it seems that my ATX psu has some issues because after connecting corsair my hard drive was detected immediately, but bios still cant boot hard drives. I tried 3 hard drives and after the windows splash logo it shows me the blue screen of death so I think the main problem is the motherboard, am i right?

No, not necessarily at all.

So clearly your PSU is bad, time to replace that.

The BSOD could be caused by a corrupted hard drive. Could have been from your power issues. You can try and fix your windows install or reinstall windows. I would do that first.

Keep in mind in your case getting a new motherboard could b costly and will be used, unless you build a new setup with a new processor and memory. Also motherboards failing is quite uncommon.

 

[Dieselakoc]

So its possible that my hard drive has been corrupted by faulty psu? I got the BSOD while i had connected the corsair psu though and one of the hard drives I tried was working fine with the corsair psu in another PC.

I can find a motherboard with the price around 70-80, why would I need a new cpu and memory?

 

[Rogue Leader]

So its possible that my hard drive has been corrupted by faulty psu? I got the BSOD while i had connected the corsair psu though and one of the hard drives I tried was working fine with the corsair psu in another PC.

I can find a motherboard with the price around 70-80, why would I need a new cpu and memory?

Its possible your hard drive was corrupted because of your system crashing because of a faulty PSU.

Sometimes older boards are hard to find, if you can get one for 70-80 great. If not it may be more worth it to get a new board/cpu/memory. Depends on the cost.

 

[Dieselakoc]

Ok I'll buy a new psu then, thank you for the support.

Mine is 750W, will a 550W be good too? I have 3 case fans too.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Ok I'll buy a new psu then, thank you for the support.

Mine is 750W, will a 550W be good too? I have 3 case fans too.

550 is more than enough.

Get the Corsair CX550M. Even the Corsair CX450M is enough.

 

[Dieselakoc]

Ok thank you very much