I have roasted two different power supplies in my computer in the past three weeks and I have no idea why.
AMD Phenom II x4 955
ASRock Motherboard
8GB (2GBx4) G.Skill Ripjaw DDR3 1600
EVGA Nvidia GTX 660
1TB Samsung Spinpoint (i think?)
2 Disk drives I harvested from old computers
The first power supply was given to me by a friend when he gave me the case I am using as well. It was a 750W modular PSU and worked great for 2.5 years.
Then one day, while playing Elder Scrolls Online, my computer just shut off. No warnings, no errors, nothing. And it wouldnt turn back on. Minor USB devices would light up, like my LED light bar on my desk.
Various troubleshooting led me to believe the power supply was to blame, most likely for being old and not well cared for. I took a power supply from my girlfriends computer and hooked it up and BEHOLD! The computer lived once more. I purchased a new power supply and put it in my girlfriend's computer, so we once again have two functional computers.
Not 30 minutes ago, the exact same failure occured with the borrowed supply. The borrowed one was a 450W PSU. I had, not 3 hours ago, taken a can of air to the inside of my case and removed healthy amounts of dust from the video card, the CPU heatsink, the PSU, and the case itself, but no noticeable dust was seen in the PSU itself.
HELP PLEASE!
AMD Phenom II x4 955
ASRock Motherboard
8GB (2GBx4) G.Skill Ripjaw DDR3 1600
EVGA Nvidia GTX 660
1TB Samsung Spinpoint (i think?)
2 Disk drives I harvested from old computers
The first power supply was given to me by a friend when he gave me the case I am using as well. It was a 750W modular PSU and worked great for 2.5 years.
Then one day, while playing Elder Scrolls Online, my computer just shut off. No warnings, no errors, nothing. And it wouldnt turn back on. Minor USB devices would light up, like my LED light bar on my desk.
Various troubleshooting led me to believe the power supply was to blame, most likely for being old and not well cared for. I took a power supply from my girlfriends computer and hooked it up and BEHOLD! The computer lived once more. I purchased a new power supply and put it in my girlfriend's computer, so we once again have two functional computers.
Not 30 minutes ago, the exact same failure occured with the borrowed supply. The borrowed one was a 450W PSU. I had, not 3 hours ago, taken a can of air to the inside of my case and removed healthy amounts of dust from the video card, the CPU heatsink, the PSU, and the case itself, but no noticeable dust was seen in the PSU itself.
HELP PLEASE!