PSU fail checking current system need help

ictmike224 · August 23, 2013

Hello one and all I have solved half the problem long story short looks like it was a dead/dieing PSU my system underload while running games just shut down and went into a reboot loop then finally got the point all the lights and fans were on but nobody was home and lets just say my ICT confidence has been shatted i have replaced the PSU and all looks well apart from the fact i have lost total faith in my system :(

From installing my new PSU one the hard drives smoked and died so googbye movie collection/music im going to guess hopefully caused by the last PSU but what im most worryed about and may just be me over worrying and being parniode my GPU which is a GTX 680 refrence card can run at 81-83 C playing the likes of far cry 3 at optimal settings really low demanding games such as surguon simulator that i used for a test reaches the 55C mark i think its fine but i really need some help form the community to put my mind at ease and also any idea to what happend to my setup this is the first time i have ever seen a system fail underload and go into a rebbot cycle then take out only a hard disk.

also i was haveing some odd graphic card driver crashes for probally 3 months prior to this fail could the PSU have caused this as it appears to have now stopped

Any helpfull comments to get back my confidence that the GPU is fine would be most greatfull :)

I am useing a OCZ modstream 700Watt PSU

my last PSU was 4 yrs old

WilliamDB · August 23, 2013

I bought a cheap 1000W back in the day before they had things like 80 plus certification, and the power delivery was insanely unreliable. I could run fine one day for 3-4 hours straight gaming, then the next day be subject to system restarts every 20-30 minutes just browsing the web.

The day it died it took out 3 hard drives as well as my MoBo. Replacing the components was annoying, but I took it to my local PC shop and they told me I had a faulty capacitor that blew a while ago.

I have had one bad Power supply since then, and it was the same issue, except I noticed it and got it replaced before it screwed my system.