PSU faulty? Or CPU overheating?

[Dragovian]

Hi, I recently (within a day) have found my PC to be freezing, with the last image on the monitor frozen in place but the sound continuing to play. This is only resolved with a forced reboot, which always follows with a reboot loop where all the lights, fans and hard drives turn on. This loop isnt resolved until i turn off the PSU, wait a while and then turn it on. The problem was initially rare, then occurred more frequently, leading me to believe that the PSU is failing. The CPU overheating doesn't seem likely for the problem as it occurs randomly, on webpages and while playing games like Morrowind, but not while playing BF4 for a while. Swapping RAM sticks doesn't seem to do anything. Could it be the MOBO as well?

Thanks for any help.

Ps: took out PSU and did paperclip test, fan ran fine.

 

[ffg7]

any domed or leaking capacitors on the motherboard or videocard? open up the psu to check for domed or leaking capacitors as the paperclip won't show capacitor problems.

 

[Randor Jonson]

Hello Dragovian,

please answer question's I've listed below.

- Can you please monitor your system temperatures? (idle&load).
Monitor temperatures by HWmonitor. Download - http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
- When was last time you performed your system maintenance? (Cleaning from dust,re-applying TIM).

Best regards,
- Randor

 

[ffg7]

is not a system maintenance problem or heat problem if he can play bf4 for a while.

 

[Dragovian]

Can't see any messed up transistors on mobo or PSU.

PSU is currently out of PC while I check stuff, I'm 99% sure it's not dust or overheating on CPU as i checked that all a month ago during a clean out

I do remember from back in January when this did happen once that when my PC successfully rebooted it said something about changed voltages or something similar

Sounds most likely like the PSU surged and has been gradually dying

 

[Randor Jonson]

is not a system maintenance problem or heat problem if he can play bf4 for a while.

That's the point. " Playing for a while " . That's enough time to heat up.

@ Dragovian

Can you post your full system specifications?

Best regards,
- Randor.

 

[Dragovian]

Okay, ran HWMonitor and my i7 core is hitting 91 degrees as soon as i put it under load

i think i found my problem right off the bat

plus I have a stock heatsink so......

Might be time to get a new one and some more thermal paste.

It also sits at like 60 degrees Celsius while idle, so that's a bit of a problem too.

 

[Randor Jonson]

I'm sorry Dragovian,but I can't help you,if you're not answering my questions.

Good luck!


Your stock heatsink should NOT idle at 60C. It should idle around 30's.

 

[ffg7]

cpu heatsink fan assembly not seated properly for those temperature to appear.