Please help if you can, I’m putting a lot of effort in this post to make sure you guys know everything. Thanks a ton.
Back in August of 2016, I bought a PC with an i5-4460, 8GB 1066 DDR3 RAM, a 1TB HDD, a shitty 430W EVGA 80+ PSU, and an RX 470. All was well, and then in June of 2017 I decided to upgrade. I replaced the 470 with an ASUS Dual GTX 1070, and an EVGA 600B Power Supply to keep up. Randomly, without warning, the PC would act like it was unplugged from the wall, make a click, and reboot itself. This happened in games, browsing google, everything. I checked GPU and CPU temps and it wasn’t that, so I just let it happened because it was inconsistent enough that I could deal with it. It got worse and worse to the point where eventually I decided to get a new PSU (EVGA 650 G3) to fix the problem in about July of 2018 I believe. It did fix the problem, for about a year. Until recently, it started happening again, and hard. Every day at least once it would shut down and restart, and this time I had no idea what to do since I just got a good power supply, and I refuse to believe two of them crapped out on me so quickly. So I ignored it, knowing it probably was bad. On about the fifth day of these restarts coming back, what I’m dubbing “the big one” came. The big one just felt different the second it shut off. Instead of the normal click, there was nothing. Usually the constant low humming static in my headphones would continue, but this time there was nothing. It was like the PC wasn’t even plugged in to begin with. And sure enough, when I went to look at the PC, it didn’t restart this time. I pressed the power button, nothing. Replugged it in, nothing. Naturally, I opened it up to take a look at what was going on. There were only a couple signs of life. First, when everything is plugged in, my GPU blinks a white light (that light is supposed to stay on solid). When the 8 pin isn’t in my GPU, but it’s still in my motherboard, it blinks a red Iight, and when the 8 pin is in and it’s not in the motherboard, no lights. I jumped the PSU with a paper clip and the fan turned on. Outside of that, no lights, beeps, anything whatsoever in the system. I’ve tried to jump the power connector with a screwdriver incase I had a bad power button, that didn’t work. I took out everything but one stick of RAM, the CPU, and the CPU and 24pin power connectors, and nothing. Someone on the forum had a very similar thing happen to him, same GPU lights and everything. He got a new PSU and it fixed his problems, but when I jumped my PSU the fan spun so I assume it could give enough power to juice up the bare minimum system, and I doubt two PSUs would give me the same rare symptoms of dying.
With all that being said, I have a few questions. 1) What was my first problem with the shutting down?
2) What could’ve caused this one to be the big one instead of it just restarting like normal?
and most importantly, 3) Where do I possibly go from here?
I was thinking about upgrading to a Ryzen 3600 soon anyways, so this seems like an opportune time, but I’m not sure if I should trust my power supply. Since one guy had a similar issue to me and a new PSU fixed it, maybe it’s bad. But at the same time, I find it unlikely to have two PSUs do the exact same thing and die on me the exact same way with different power strips, especially considering I found almost nobody with the same restart symptoms as me online. I’d just like to know how I can measure down to find out what’s wrong with my system. Borrowing parts is unlikely. My friends all have computers but I’d be hard pressed to convince them to let me yank out their power supply, and they aren’t really comfortable doing it themselves, but if I have to, let me know.
Thanks guys and I pray you can give some insight!
Update: Tried a new PSU, still no signs of life as far as I can tell.
Worked beautifully, couldn’t find the Max. Thanks for all the help!
