Hey everyone! I'm about to buy a new PSU as a believe the one I currently have is -close- to busted, but just in case I wanted to confirm my suspicions here.
Before anything, these are my system's components:
By the way... when I say "sometimes" It was pretty much a 50/50 whether I would get a succesful turn on without having to cutting the power first.
This is the list of things I tried, but the problem persisted:
As the days went on I got more worried as the 50/50 chance I mentioned lowered steadily... Got to the point that almost everytime I had to cut the power before the PC would turn on. It got worst still... Around 2 weeks ago the PC would NOT turn on at all, no matter what I did.
This is when things get complicated: My brother lended me his PC. Got his PSU hooked up to my rig and it turned on perfectly! I thought this pretty much identified my PSU as the problem, but just to be sure I hooked up my supposedly faulty PSU to my brother's PC... AND IT TURNED ON NO PROBLEM! Honestly I was pretty lost... why would my PSU worked perfectly on my brother´s and not in mine? Didn´t make much sense to me, so I tried hooking my PSU back into my PC... and now it works no problem!? I was at a complete loss, but as long as my PC works I guess I was willing to forget all this.
The thing is... after 2 weeks of this "psu temporary swap fix" the problem has come back, again out of complete nowhere. There's one difference tho... I was able to identify that maybe it's not that "the PC doesn't turn on" but instead it just takes a LONG time to even post. Why do I say this? Well today I pressed the on button and like always it didn't turn on, but instead of trying to cut the power I just let the PC be for a while. About 5 minutes after I pressed the on button the PC magically turned on.
So yeah, this is where I am ATM. Seems like a PSU-related problem to me, but just to be sure I wanted other ask over here
Thanks everyone!
P.D.: Right now the PC is on and I'm planning on keeping it on until the new PSU arrives (delivery is slow in my country so it could take around 5-6 days)... Could it be dangerous for the other components to keep the PC on with my current PSU?
Before anything, these are my system's components:
- GPU EVGA GTX 980
- MB Asus TUF B360M-E GAMING
- CPU Intel i5 8400
- RAM Team DDR4 8GB T-Force DELTA x2 (both have the same brand, model and size, only the frecuency is different. Old one is 2666, new one is 3000).
- PSU XFX XRT 750w Full Modular.
By the way... when I say "sometimes" It was pretty much a 50/50 whether I would get a succesful turn on without having to cutting the power first.
This is the list of things I tried, but the problem persisted:
- Took everything out (even resit the CPU), gave the case and all the components a good clean with canned air and a brush, and put everything back in.
- Thought maybe the new RAM stick was the problem so I took it out and left only the old one.
- Updated BIOS.
- Bought a new PSU cable (the one i had was pretty old).
- Thought maybe the problem was related to my case, so I unhooked everything case-related from the MB and tried jump-starting the PC with a screwdriver... and nothing.
- Cleared CMOS.
- I swapped any power cables I had an extra of (XFX XTR 750 is fully modular and comes with some extras): SATA, PCI-E and MOLEX.
As the days went on I got more worried as the 50/50 chance I mentioned lowered steadily... Got to the point that almost everytime I had to cut the power before the PC would turn on. It got worst still... Around 2 weeks ago the PC would NOT turn on at all, no matter what I did.
This is when things get complicated: My brother lended me his PC. Got his PSU hooked up to my rig and it turned on perfectly! I thought this pretty much identified my PSU as the problem, but just to be sure I hooked up my supposedly faulty PSU to my brother's PC... AND IT TURNED ON NO PROBLEM! Honestly I was pretty lost... why would my PSU worked perfectly on my brother´s and not in mine? Didn´t make much sense to me, so I tried hooking my PSU back into my PC... and now it works no problem!? I was at a complete loss, but as long as my PC works I guess I was willing to forget all this.
The thing is... after 2 weeks of this "psu temporary swap fix" the problem has come back, again out of complete nowhere. There's one difference tho... I was able to identify that maybe it's not that "the PC doesn't turn on" but instead it just takes a LONG time to even post. Why do I say this? Well today I pressed the on button and like always it didn't turn on, but instead of trying to cut the power I just let the PC be for a while. About 5 minutes after I pressed the on button the PC magically turned on.
So yeah, this is where I am ATM. Seems like a PSU-related problem to me, but just to be sure I wanted other ask over here
Thanks everyone!
P.D.: Right now the PC is on and I'm planning on keeping it on until the new PSU arrives (delivery is slow in my country so it could take around 5-6 days)... Could it be dangerous for the other components to keep the PC on with my current PSU?
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