PC stuck on Intel logo

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Vyom21

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PC configuration
Q6600 Core 2 Quad 2.34 Ghz
DDR3 4GB
GTS 450
400W Power Supply
1TB Segate Baracuda
Intel DG41KR
Windows 10

So its like this, everytime I turn on my pc after its been off for sometime, it stays there at the intel logo for, I dunno, never had the patience for it anyway, so I try to restart my pc (and those digits that appear at the bottom right corner of the screen dont always show up) if iam lucky and manage to get past the splash screen it takes its own sweet time to load up, sometimes its quicker, there is no clear pattern. And it doesnt always boot up, shows me the blue screen of death few minutes after the windows loading logo, those dots that dance about in a circle right after the splash screen, then my pc restarts after that, the message quickly disappears so dunno what it says ;-(. However when it does load up the desktop, the mouse disappears for a while and when it finally does show up it gets stuck, if I wait for a few seconds it starts moving again, doesn't always happen, not sure if my motherboard is defective or if my hard disk has issues, cause last week I could hear some clicking sound from my hard drive, dont hear a lot of that noise anymore, Oh and that orange light near the power button just stays on the whole time, it would normally blink everytime I accessed files. I used cryastal disk and it said my hdd had 16 uncorrectable sectors with a caution logo. I tried installing Windows 7 using a bootable disk, it took a while for it to load up that bar with the black background where it says windows is loading files (not sure if it actually says that). After that I cliked next blah blah blah, then it got stuck at this one screen I dont quite remember, it was loading forever, it comes after you click next and before it shows you your drives, after it completely loaded up it didn't show me my hard disk, and there was this one message that asked me if I wanted to install drivers, well I freaked out and was sort of pissed so I abort the process. I forgot, sometime back I had Windows 7 and my time would keep change evertime I restarted my pc, my time zone was correct. Iam thinking CMOS battery, but you guys are pros. Plz help me, I dont wanna change my mobo.
Oh and when pc is done pissing me off and when it does finally load up it functions normally, I play gta 5 and it doesn't crash or anything, smooth as butter, m confused.

Thank you in advance
Vyom Sharma 🙂




 
Solution
SeaSonic is inarguably one of the higher quality PSU manufacturers, I've yet to come across a bad review of a SeaSonic made unit. In reading one of the few legitimate reviews I found for that unit (which was in danish) I found that they use higher quality capacitors. Since capacitors are what often cause a PSU to fail, the use of higher quality caps will almost inevitably result in longer life for the PSU.

As far as a "tier" system for PSU's, I prefer to read reviews myself rather than rely on a list that doesn't explain the issues. It doesn't mean there isn't a place for the tiered list (I've referred people to them on occasion), just that I prefer personal research
The figures presented are a bit on the generous side. The GTX 750Ti draws about 70W of power while your CPU will be another <95W or so. Your ram, hard drives etc will be another 30-50W (mostly from your 5V) so I wouldn't think there would be any issue with the SeaSonic 430W