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The power supply is a Gigabyte P850GM - 850W PSU 80 + Gold Modular
That should be enough no? Or should I just try to switch it to a better one to see if it works? At this point I don't care. I am desperate.
I tried:
- Many things software related to fix it.
- Different GPU and CPU non-overclock and overclock. Crashes still happen.
- I have tried unplugging cables, and diversifying power outlets so it draws power from different plugs.
- I have having TWO UPS 850w backup power supply batteries to power the PC.
I HAVE NOT:
- Exchanged the GPU or tested it in another PC
- Reseated ram
- Tinkerd with overclock power limits
- Exchanged the PSU.
- I have tried to standard windows checkdisk and it seems both of my drives should be fine, also the system dump check etc. Anythin specific I need to do? I am willing to check again.
So far about crashes:
- Usually happens right after a reboot or wake from sleep.
- Usually happens right after exiting a videogame.
- Quite random, but still a bit consistent to above parameters.
I also made a terrfic and incredible scientific discovery.
IF I HIT/KICK THE PC IN THE BACK AT THE EQUIVALENT FORCE OF KNOCKING A DOOR, I get instant blackscreen/freeze.
Should I just try and exchange the PSU?
Maybe I should:
1. Do checkdisk
2. replace PSU with powerful one.
3. - If that fails, replace GPU.
4. - If that fails, commit suicide.
- 850W should be enough, but a power supply can be defective or fail from old age.
- Kicking a pc hard will cause it to crash likely, especially newer ones as impedance are critical and kicking it will likely slightly move cards and connectors changing impedance or even disconnecting them temporary, so there acting as expected.
- Reboots may cause a spike in power consumption in an already hot system so make sense it would crash, with wake from sleep it kinda hurts my theory.
- Quitting video game would also change the load drastically too, so could make it unstable too
- To be honest reseating ram could be a thing to do, unlikely to be the problem but a very easy thing to try, if your cooler is not in the way.
- When i talked about checkdisk i was talking about the standard checkdist, it should find if your disk was failing and if you had corrupted windows system files. if you want to be even more sure of the health of the disks you can read the SMART with a tool like crystaldiskinfo.
- One thing that would rule a huge unknown out is to reinstall windows or install a new one on an other disk, if you can.
- And yeah those PSU have a huge (i really mean huge) security design oversight, you can be lucky and have one of the rare that are not problematic, but a lot of them do explode on overload (STOP OVERCLOCKING ON IT), 850W is plenty, 650W should even be enough (limit but should be OK). when they explode they can either die, kill what is upstream (you UPS), what is downstream (your PC) or both.
- A lose sata cable can make everything go funky.
- Corsair does make descent products just do not buy used as at least in France buying used will void your warranty (bought a 2months old PSU that died and my RMA got refused because it was not my name on the invoice), if it is new my friends never had any problems even slightly out of warranty.
if you are in the US, Rosewill does also make good PSU, and cheap, but they seem only sold in the US, well the one i have survived multiple shorts on the 12V without problems and is still powering my pc.