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Is my PSU Dying?
Well... I had an interesting evening today.
Mom was using her PC as she normally does (formerly mine), when suddenly, a savage BSOD appeared, it pointed to atikumg (IIRC), so I assumed the drivers were faulty, so, I unisnstalled drivers, ran AMD driver cleanup, ran Ccleaner and upgraded to the latest drivers that VGA can have. No more BSODS, but system tends to hang completely at random times, which is weird.
This PC was working nicely since 2006... until just today, when it's exhbiting this symptoms just suddenly.
I've cleaned the system, removing any dust, replacing thermal paste on even the VGA itself, I need to test if problem persists tomorrow. System runs cool so far... I'm suspecting the PSU is dying somehow (I don't know how, probably a big ray that impacted nearby two days ago, even with the PC off?)
The VGA works, doesn't smell like burned... nor the PSU, all the rest of the components look good, no bad capacitors on the MoBo or such...
I'm leaving more details here if this helps somehow:
- CPU Temp Idle: 30 - 35 C°
- CPU Temp Full Throttle: 50 C°
- VGA Idle: 38 C°
- VGA Stressed/Full Throttle: 55 C°
The VGA is a Radeon HD 4350... not a gaming card, not even a card that draws a lot of power, the PSU is a PiXXo Transformer 800W 80+ Certification. The rest can be found on my System Spec section.
Is the PSU dying or the VGA? This setup worked like a charm 8+ years or so... this just started to happen suddenly. Ah! This tends to happen whenever she browses the web, keeping Firefox and Thunderbird open at the same time while using Winamp to hear some online music, both have hardware acceleration enabled, Firefox has e10s enabled and H264 decoding available. Checked Even Viewer for some extra info, but nothing was there to help me...
Thanks in advance for your help, guys