Freezing

[LabRat]

nobody said anything about the power supply. I would never touch that brand and know nothing about it..... i think the board is toast.............. and a bootleg power supply?. take your pick. i can't swap stuff out from where I am.

[Silanse]

I don't have another PSU, the only thing I could do is switch to another graphics card and see if the issue still is there. Might that be the way to see if the board is toast?

[Silanse]

Another update, I left my pc on this mourning, with a video on repeat to see if it were to stop playing sound if it froze. But it didn't freeze. It is 8 hours later and my pc is still running fine. I cleaned it again yesterday and now everything seems to work fine. If it crashes again in the near time I will check everything else, but for now I'll see if I fixed it for some weird reason. 

[Riksland]

I'm not an IT pro but from my perspektive it sounds like one or more motherboard capacitors are broken. Google it how they look and then look inside the computer if any are broken. If not it can be the PSU that is to weak or broken, if you overclock things you probably have the answer. 500W might be little too short but I don't really know

[Silanse]

If it crashes again I sure will check it out!

[Silanse]

Update: CMOS is cleared, battery taken out and stuff, it still freezes. I checked my motherboard for broken capacitors, that's not the problem either.

I can't think of something else..

[Silanse]

I figured out that my PSU supplies 456 watts, my system uses 460 watts or above when everything is plugged in. I got rid of three fans (so my pc is pretty hot now) but it seemes to have fixed the problem, for now..

[LabRat]

time for a reliable upgrade. don't buy one solely based on watts. it's a big mistake. try running with the side off the case for a while.

[Silanse]

I'm looking into it! I didn't have the money at that time and this was the best option, then I upgraded my case and got two new case fans, didn't calculate that in I guess. But that still leaves me scratching my head why it started bugging out a few weeks ago, maybe it was that I plugged in some new usb devices? And why with the side off of the case?

[LabRat]

maybe the ps is wearing out.

 

the side off for cooler aire to surround components that fans are now not providing.

[Silanse]

I think it is, glad that I probably found the problem.

Noted!

Now hope it won't crash again..

[Silanse]

I changed my PSU, it still crashes randomly but less frequent.

What's the thing to do now?