Hi
My 8 year old PC has been struggling recently, and the last week has been particularly bad — it frequently crashes, typically followed by it repeatedly turning off some five seconds after being turned on again, resulting in a perpetual loop of starting up, turning off, starting up again etc. without ever reaching the BIOS/motherboard logo. I have to turn off the power and let it rest a while before I can hope to have it start up properly.
I am suspecting the CPU, a non-OC’d i5-2500K, is to blame. When starting up after hours of non-use, the BIOS displays the temp as 65 C, within a minute rising to roughly 75 C. Before noticing this, I thought the fault may lie with the PSU (Corsair TX650).
What am I to do? I have never fiddled with anything inside my (prebuilt) PC, save for replacing the GPU some years back.
Thank you
My 8 year old PC has been struggling recently, and the last week has been particularly bad — it frequently crashes, typically followed by it repeatedly turning off some five seconds after being turned on again, resulting in a perpetual loop of starting up, turning off, starting up again etc. without ever reaching the BIOS/motherboard logo. I have to turn off the power and let it rest a while before I can hope to have it start up properly.
I am suspecting the CPU, a non-OC’d i5-2500K, is to blame. When starting up after hours of non-use, the BIOS displays the temp as 65 C, within a minute rising to roughly 75 C. Before noticing this, I thought the fault may lie with the PSU (Corsair TX650).
What am I to do? I have never fiddled with anything inside my (prebuilt) PC, save for replacing the GPU some years back.
Thank you