PC shut down. Was unable to turn it on for 15 minutes, but turned on after one hour. What's the problem?

Chokachilds

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Hey there,

While playing Destiny 2, my PC shut down and wouldn't turn back on the first 15 minutes. I opened my PC, cleared everything of dust. I also tested my PSU to see if that was the problem, but PSU passed the pin test. After 30-45 minutes of doing research and buying the paper clips I used my brothers PSU to test it on my PC. It was able to turn on, but I noticed a spark come out of my CPU pins attached to mobo. It still turned on fine and ran for 5 minutes before I shut it off. I then put back my PSU that passed the paper clip test and my PC turned on fine using the mobo test pressing the power pins with a screwdriver.

I want to know what caused the issue and what I can do to diagnose my problems further. Right now, it seems like an overheat from the dust on my CPU fans or something or an overheat in general. I've never had an overheat problem before. I also have had a recent issue with my PC freezing ever since the fall update. I made a thread concerning this issue:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3549163/freezing-playing-games-watching-stream-side-dual-monitor-happened-past-years.html

Thanks guys.
 
Sorry my bad. I have a CS550M Gold Edition Corsair PSU.
My PC isn't overclocked.
I have a AMD FX-8350.
GFX is AMD R9 270X.
8GB RAM.
GA-970A-DS3P Gigabyte Motherboard Rev 2 I think.
 
Ok .. 125W CPU, 160W GPU. PSU is closer to 500W, but should be able to power everything.
Is your R9 270X of some factory overclocked models?

From your other thread, seems like system is heating up to 70C. You probably need to improve airflow inside your case.
What PC enclosure are you using? How much fans in the system?
 
My R9 wasn't factory OC'ed. I'm using a Corsair Carbide Spec-02. Ventilation should be okay. I'm using system fan that came from my old mid-tower as well as the stock system fan attached to the spec-02 case. I removed quite a bit of dust from the CPU fans after not having cleaned it in a month. The PC ran again, but I'm afraid that if I put CPU stress that it'll shutdown again.