Question System crashes when gaming

[kanishta karunarathne]

I can use my PC normally, but I can't play games. When I open the game, the pc crash after a few seconds or few minutes. Same thing happens when doing a gpu stress test. In the first time when this happened, it was shown on the screen as power save mod .

cpu- i3-10105F
gpu- gtx970
psu-400LF
ram-8gb (2666MHz)

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can you show a photo of label printed on PSU ?
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

Probably your PSU is not up to task to provide enough power.

 

[punkncat]

I see recommends suggesting a 450W PSU for that 970. A good quality 400 could work, particularly with an i3. I am not familiar with "400LF" power supply. What brand and how old is it?

 

[kanishta karunarathne]

Can you show a photo of label printed on PSU ?
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

Probably your PSU is not up to task to provide enough power.

image link-

https://imgur.com/zBjMIRw

View: https://imgur.com/zBjMIRw

 

[kanishta karunarathne]

Can you show a photo of label printed on PSU ?
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

Probably your PSU is not up to task to provide enough power.

Are you saying there is no problem with my gpu?😳

 

[kanishta karunarathne]

I see recommends suggesting a 450W PSU for that 970. A good quality 400 could work, particularly with an i3. I am not familiar with "400LF" power supply. What brand and how old is it?

Its storm, and it says atx 400lf.I think it's cheap one.

 

[kanishta karunarathne]

I see recommends suggesting a 450W PSU for that 970. A good quality 400 could work, particularly with an i3. I am not familiar with "400LF" power supply. What brand and how old is it?

About 4 years as I remember..

 

[SkyNetRising]

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That is essentially 300W PSU (less than 276W combined on two 12V rails).

Depending on particular GTX 970 model (and factory overclock on it) minimum recommended PSU can be 400W - 600W).
And you have 300W only.

See the problem here?

Are you saying there is no problem with my gpu?😳

I'm not saying that. GPU can have a problem too. But PSU definitely is one of your problems.

 

[DSzymborski]

The PSU is absolute junk. It's very likely it's the problem, and even if it's not the specific cause of this problem, it needs to be replaced immediately. This PC should have never been turned on with this PSU installed, and hopefully, the crashes are the PSU directly and not component damage caused by the junk PSU.

 

[kanishta karunarathne]

That is essentially 300W PSU (less than 276W combined on two 12V rails).

Depending on particular GTX 970 model (and factory overclock on it) minimum recommended PSU can be 400W - 600W).
And you have 300W only.

See the problem here?


I'm not saying that. GPU can have a problem too. But PSU definitely is one of your problems.

But I used this for about 3 years without any problem.

 

[kanishta karunarathne]

The PSU is absolute junk. It's very likely it's the problem, and even if it's not the specific cause of this problem, it needs to be replaced immediately. This PC should have never been turned on with this PSU installed, and hopefully, the crashes are the PSU directly and not component damage caused by the junk PSU.

I can't even listen to movies or music? What can happen if I turn on the PC again?😳😳

 

[SkyNetRising]

I can't even listen to movies or music? What can happen if I turn on the PC again?😳😳

You can use it as usual.
Just don't play any graphics intensive games and don't run gpu benchmarks/stress tests.
That is until you get your PSU replaced with a decent quality/sufficient power model.

BTW - which exactly manufacturer/ model GTX 970 is it?

 

[DSzymborski]

But I used this for about 3 years without any problem.

That's not how it works. Components can be damaged long before something dramatic happens. Someone who has a heart attack in the afternoon wasn't actually in perfect health the day before. A computer being able to turn on is not a diagnostic test of whether a PSU is functioning safely.

 

[kanishta karunarathne]

You can use it as usual.
Just don't play any graphics intensive games and don't run gpu benchmarks/stress tests.
That is until you get your PSU replaced with a decent quality/sufficient power model.

BTW - which exactly manufacturer/ model GTX 970 is it?

It's a galax geforce gtx series .ok I'll definitely do that.i'll let you know if it works this way.thanks a lot for the help.

 

[kanishta karunarathne]

That's not how it works. Components can be damaged long before something dramatic happens. Someone who has a heart attack in the afternoon wasn't actually in perfect health the day before. A computer being able to turn on is not a diagnostic test of whether a PSU is functioning safely.

lol...😛 nvrmnd, I'm still new to this. I'm going to buy a psu today. I also think it'll work this way. I'll let you know if it works. Thank you very much for your help.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I'm going to buy a psu today. I also think it'll work this way. I'll let you know if it works.

Just don't buy the same garbage PSU. Get a reputable brand. Those are not cheap.

Galax has 3 different GTX 970 models. For all of them minimum recommended PSU is 500W.

 

[kanishta karunarathne]

Just don't buy the same garbage PSU. Get a reputable brand. Those are not cheap.

Galax has 3 different GTX 970 models. For all of them minimum recommended PSU is 500W.

Do you mean corsair?