TL;DR:
Turned fan on in my room, USB mic stopped working. Turned fan off, mic worked again. Turned PC off for one minute, it started turning off after a couple of minutes. Electrical problem or dying PSU? PSU is 10 years old.
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PSU is a Corsair VX550. Mobo is Asrock A58M-A/BR. CPU is a 7860k AMD APU
So, I got a Vedo BM-800 USB mic. I plugged it in and all was ok. Spent all day using it on discord. Then night hits and I was gonna play games with some friends. Thing is, my CPU is throttling. The only way I can game is if I point a fan towards my PC so that the CPU doesn't throttle itself.
Now, this is a problem I've had for months now, I've been gaming with a fan pointed to my PC since it started. Already replaced thermal paste and everything, heatsink may be crapping out. Either way, I already bought another PC and it arrives in 10 days, so this is whatever.
Back to the issue at hand. I booted up my game, turned on the fan and... my mic stopped working. I turned the fan off and the mic worked again. I switched USB ports and turned the fan on again, and this time the mic worked but barely. So I re-plugged my old $2 jack mic and played the game.
After I played, I turned the PC off for a couple of minutes and problems started when I powered it back on. My PC would boot but it would turn off after a couple of minutes. Now I can't get it to stay on for more than a few minutes.
Now I'm wondering whether I have an electrical problem with my wall sockets or is my PSU just crapping out... It never gave me any issues before. I was inclined to believe it was an electrical problem because turning the fan on made it so my USB port stopped getting enough power for the mic.
One disclaimer. I rarely turn my PC off.
Is there any way I can troubleshoot this? I mean, if it was the PSU, why would turning on my desk fan cause problems?
Turned fan on in my room, USB mic stopped working. Turned fan off, mic worked again. Turned PC off for one minute, it started turning off after a couple of minutes. Electrical problem or dying PSU? PSU is 10 years old.
Full Post:
PSU is a Corsair VX550. Mobo is Asrock A58M-A/BR. CPU is a 7860k AMD APU
So, I got a Vedo BM-800 USB mic. I plugged it in and all was ok. Spent all day using it on discord. Then night hits and I was gonna play games with some friends. Thing is, my CPU is throttling. The only way I can game is if I point a fan towards my PC so that the CPU doesn't throttle itself.
Now, this is a problem I've had for months now, I've been gaming with a fan pointed to my PC since it started. Already replaced thermal paste and everything, heatsink may be crapping out. Either way, I already bought another PC and it arrives in 10 days, so this is whatever.
Back to the issue at hand. I booted up my game, turned on the fan and... my mic stopped working. I turned the fan off and the mic worked again. I switched USB ports and turned the fan on again, and this time the mic worked but barely. So I re-plugged my old $2 jack mic and played the game.
After I played, I turned the PC off for a couple of minutes and problems started when I powered it back on. My PC would boot but it would turn off after a couple of minutes. Now I can't get it to stay on for more than a few minutes.
Now I'm wondering whether I have an electrical problem with my wall sockets or is my PSU just crapping out... It never gave me any issues before. I was inclined to believe it was an electrical problem because turning the fan on made it so my USB port stopped getting enough power for the mic.
One disclaimer. I rarely turn my PC off.
Is there any way I can troubleshoot this? I mean, if it was the PSU, why would turning on my desk fan cause problems?