Bit of a long story attached to this one so bear with me - My dad built this PC around 5 years ago. He finished it shortly before he passed away. I remember him telling me he that he had fitted a faulty PSU initially and had replaced it with a new one, but after that all had seemed well.
Anyway, I hadn't used the machine much after he died. When I went to turn it on after a long period of inactivity it kept hanging at the boot loader. I changed the cmos, backed it up and then wiped the drives and started again with a fresh windows 10 installation. I was satisfied it had been the cmos battery that had caused the problem and was happily running the pc until this afternoon.
I turned it off and it restarted. I turned it off again thinking it was just a weird Windows 10 quirk and then it got caught in an off/on off/on boot loop. It didn't get as far as the bios so I couldn't do anything. After a few cycles of this everything went totally dead. no lights on the motherboard and no activity from the psu. I switched power cables and tried different power outlets. It's dead, no life whatsoever. I haven't performed the paper clip test on the psu because I'm a bit wary of that.
So I assume the PSU is toast, but as I remember this happening before is there a chance this is the wrong PSU for the motherboard? I don't want to reorder the same PSU because I'm seriously worried the same thing will happen again. Is it possible that the build of this PC is fundamentally off causing it to keep breaking these PSUs?
The PSU is a Corsair TX650M
Graphics card is a G Force GTX 760
And I feel stupid saying this, but I can't work out what the motherboard is. It's a Gigabyte but I was starring at it for ages and couldn't find a model number anywhere. Sorry for being a total newb but as I didn't build the system and have little PC repairing experience, this is fairly new to me.
Thanks for any help you can give. Here are some pictures:
View: https://imgur.com/a/5NMj6xa
Anyway, I hadn't used the machine much after he died. When I went to turn it on after a long period of inactivity it kept hanging at the boot loader. I changed the cmos, backed it up and then wiped the drives and started again with a fresh windows 10 installation. I was satisfied it had been the cmos battery that had caused the problem and was happily running the pc until this afternoon.
I turned it off and it restarted. I turned it off again thinking it was just a weird Windows 10 quirk and then it got caught in an off/on off/on boot loop. It didn't get as far as the bios so I couldn't do anything. After a few cycles of this everything went totally dead. no lights on the motherboard and no activity from the psu. I switched power cables and tried different power outlets. It's dead, no life whatsoever. I haven't performed the paper clip test on the psu because I'm a bit wary of that.
So I assume the PSU is toast, but as I remember this happening before is there a chance this is the wrong PSU for the motherboard? I don't want to reorder the same PSU because I'm seriously worried the same thing will happen again. Is it possible that the build of this PC is fundamentally off causing it to keep breaking these PSUs?
The PSU is a Corsair TX650M
Graphics card is a G Force GTX 760
And I feel stupid saying this, but I can't work out what the motherboard is. It's a Gigabyte but I was starring at it for ages and couldn't find a model number anywhere. Sorry for being a total newb but as I didn't build the system and have little PC repairing experience, this is fairly new to me.
Thanks for any help you can give. Here are some pictures:
View: https://imgur.com/a/5NMj6xa