System Cuts out

[MikDundee]

Hi,

My computers doing a bit of an odd thing at the minute and I suspect it is hardware related. On quite a regular basis it will cut out completely, however this isn't liked to doing anything perticularly stressful with it. It's not overheating or anything like that.

Sometimes it will be as soon as Windows starts, somtimes 15 minutes in, sometimes after it's been on for 16 hours. I tend to find that turning the PSU off completely (even for just 10 seconds) will greatly increase the chances of it lasting longer. I suspect it's the PSU. Since it's been happening I've recently used this as an excuse to get a new GPU, my Radeon HD5550 was well out of date and upgraded to a Nvidea GTX970, I've also rewiped my computer and clean installed Windows. Neither of these have made a difference. I'm not sure if some of my components aren't 100% compatible with each other.

At one point I was still just using the standard fan for my CPU and noticed my CPU was running quite hot, like 60-80 degrees if i remember correctly. It's now at a steady 35-40.

It's been doing this for about 6 months. I've had a couple of bluescreens within the last 2 months. Sometimes after a crash my system takes ages to start up completely. When start up used to be about 30 seconds it's in the region of around 5 minutes. I've got AVG and CCleaner on there to do the tidying up.

My sistem is:
ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO - 2011
EZCool 80+ Ambiance 800W PSU - 2011
PHENOM II X4 965 -2011
Corsair 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Vengeance -2014
Cooler Master Hyper 212 E VO CPU Cooler - 2014
120GB HyperX 3K SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Drive (Running Windows 10) - 2014
Seagate SSHD 7200RPM 3.5" 1TB SATA 6Gbs 64MB Cache
MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 OC 4GB GDDR5 Graphics Card

I don't do a lot of High spec gaming on the system really, it mostly used for watching stuff, internet, downloading & some video editing. I'm eyeing up getting a new case so I can do a bit of cable management this time. Would taking it all apart and putting it back together help?

Thanks in advance! Let me know if you want any more information.

 

[hang-the-9]

Power supply is a pool quality one, replace that first.

Seasonic S12II is a good model for pretty cheap, the new CS-M models from Corsair are also good for the price.

 

[MikDundee]

Thanks for your response!.

So doe these sound like problems that would occur because of a shonky PSU?

I'm finding as I'm working on it now, switching around appss and navigating is fine but whenever I'm trying to navigate around folders in Windows Explorer or add new folders to my big hard drive it's taking forever. Then i eventually hear a clunk and it works. Could a hard drive cause these problems?

 

[MikDundee]

I'm starting to think this is hard drive related. Maybe it's not spinning properly? I've been trying to copy info from one folder to another (on the same HD) and i did 25% in a few seconds, and it's now doing about 300kb a minute. Yet all other apps etc (on my windows drive) are working fine.

 

[hang-the-9]

I'm starting to think this is hard drive related. Maybe it's not spinning properly? I've been trying to copy info from one folder to another (on the same HD) and i did 25% in a few seconds, and it's now doing about 300kb a minute. Yet all other apps etc (on my windows drive) are working fine.

Well try a new drive and see if it works better. It's new enough that it should be in warranty. You can also do a test with Seatools to see how it is. Or remove the Seagate and test only on the SSD.