For the past few weeks, my PC has been shutting off with strange symptoms. Every so often - seemingly at random - it will shut off, all the fans + lights will stay on, and the CPU troubleshooting light on the motherboard turns on. From there, I can only shut it off and restart it by turning it off at the power supply. There is seemingly no structure to when these shut-offs happen, though I can replicate it by simply trying to pass through the tutorial of the game Killer Frequency (there's a spot where it always happens, even though it's a pretty easy-to-run game and I play much more resource intensive games regualrly). CPU temps are hovering around 60.
I recently upgraded my CPU from a Ryzen 5 3600 to a Ryzen 9 5900X about a month ago. I can't remember if it happened before I upgraded, but it's been increasing in frequency over the last few weeks. Everything else in the system was purchased in February 2020 (except for upgrading from 16 -> 32gb RAM this past winter).
Logically, it's either a failing PSU or motherboard, but that doesn't feel right. Both were purchased about 4.5 years ago, so they shouldn't be failing by now. The Newegg power draw calculator says I need about 600-699 watts for this system, and I have 650, so I'm kind of cutting it close with my recent upgrade. Every USB port is populated with a peripheral and there's a WiFi card, so the system COULD be drawing too much power.
Please let me know if anyone needs any more information, I'd love any help or suggestions I can get. I haven't tried reseating the CPU and cooler yet because my temps - while a little higher than they were before the upgrade - are fine, and this is the only issue that I'm having. Would love to hear if anyone's seen this before and can offer a perspective!
Specs:
Ryzen 9 5900X
2070 Super
B450 Tomahawk Max
32gb DDR4-3600
Seasonic 650W Gold
1 4TB HDD, 1 1TB HDD, 1 m2 1TB SSD, 1 512GB SSD
I recently upgraded my CPU from a Ryzen 5 3600 to a Ryzen 9 5900X about a month ago. I can't remember if it happened before I upgraded, but it's been increasing in frequency over the last few weeks. Everything else in the system was purchased in February 2020 (except for upgrading from 16 -> 32gb RAM this past winter).
Logically, it's either a failing PSU or motherboard, but that doesn't feel right. Both were purchased about 4.5 years ago, so they shouldn't be failing by now. The Newegg power draw calculator says I need about 600-699 watts for this system, and I have 650, so I'm kind of cutting it close with my recent upgrade. Every USB port is populated with a peripheral and there's a WiFi card, so the system COULD be drawing too much power.
Please let me know if anyone needs any more information, I'd love any help or suggestions I can get. I haven't tried reseating the CPU and cooler yet because my temps - while a little higher than they were before the upgrade - are fine, and this is the only issue that I'm having. Would love to hear if anyone's seen this before and can offer a perspective!
Specs:
Ryzen 9 5900X
2070 Super
B450 Tomahawk Max
32gb DDR4-3600
Seasonic 650W Gold
1 4TB HDD, 1 1TB HDD, 1 m2 1TB SSD, 1 512GB SSD
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