My PC keeps Crashing to blackscreen (as if the screen gets no input),
or it freezes and is stuck in the frame it was displaying. The fans don't
get louder, the air from the vents is cold, the tower is cold, the hard drive
makes no strange noises, the screen isn't the culprit either, It might be
the CPU as it used to randomly spike to 100% before everything started
to freeze up all the time, I am not sure though.
Edit:
I tried different things and might have an idea what it might be,
The time it needs to boot increased by a lot, the cpu usage seems high to me
even for the smallest tasks, (opening chrome 52%, trying to download a software 80%, it's a 3,4 GHz Quad Core)
and as soon as I try to do anything other than opening some folders, or the control panel, like opening a .jpg
it crashes. It freezes for a few seconds, then goes black.
Could it be the PSU? How can I know for certain? (I tried using Easytune 6 (Gigabyte Z77P-d3 Mainboard)
to monitor the voltage, but before I got to that, it crashed again. Also I did start to get a few bluescreens
a few weeks ago. According to different threads it all points to PSU failure.
So I want to open my PC up, any hints what to look for? Or could it be something different?
-thanks for reading
or it freezes and is stuck in the frame it was displaying. The fans don't
get louder, the air from the vents is cold, the tower is cold, the hard drive
makes no strange noises, the screen isn't the culprit either, It might be
the CPU as it used to randomly spike to 100% before everything started
to freeze up all the time, I am not sure though.
Edit:
I tried different things and might have an idea what it might be,
The time it needs to boot increased by a lot, the cpu usage seems high to me
even for the smallest tasks, (opening chrome 52%, trying to download a software 80%, it's a 3,4 GHz Quad Core)
and as soon as I try to do anything other than opening some folders, or the control panel, like opening a .jpg
it crashes. It freezes for a few seconds, then goes black.
Could it be the PSU? How can I know for certain? (I tried using Easytune 6 (Gigabyte Z77P-d3 Mainboard)
to monitor the voltage, but before I got to that, it crashed again. Also I did start to get a few bluescreens
a few weeks ago. According to different threads it all points to PSU failure.
So I want to open my PC up, any hints what to look for? Or could it be something different?
-thanks for reading