Meh. My game PC just randomly shuts itself down and reboots. No bluescreen involved. Just suddenly off. Sounds like a faulty PSU? 🤔
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@sige "Shuts down and reboots" or just suddenly reboots/resets?
If the latter, yes, fair chance it's a PSU brownout, and yes it can easily start happening as the components age out.
Got anyone you could trade with for a day or two to see if your problem goes away without buying new parts blind?
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@Tvorsk like click power gone. Then click is back and booting up 🤔
Not sure if I have someone with a spare
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@sige Argh. Yeah in this case it'll be really good to check with another PSU before buying a replacement. Very well can be, doesn't have to...
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@Tvorsk might have to replace my rig anyways. It's getting kind of old at this point
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@sige Well then I guess you can get a new nice high power PSU, if it helps, great, and in either case can be then moved to your next build...
How old is old though? :p
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@Tvorsk I think it must be close to 10 years now. Did add some ram and swapped the GPU tho.
It got an Intel i7-5820k in it
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@sige Well, yeah.
On one hand, even "this old" PCs have plenty of power to deal with basic stuff.
On the other, it's definitely old enough to have trouble with heavier work, and for hardware to start misbehaving with age.
Good luck, it's never a fun expense :(
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