Is my PSU dying?
Is my PSU dying?
So briefly a history: I assembled my PC around February 2023. It was struggling a lot, freezing for about half a minute before going black and forcing a hard reset. It was unusual and I didn’t pay much attention. About two months later, I replaced the motherboard, CPU, and RAM. The new board failed just one week later because my game got stuck and caused another reset. I had no idea what happened. I’m not very experienced with PCs!
I brought it to a service center where they discovered the CPU and RAM were still working. The board was overheated, so they gave me a new board and a case that matched (Micro-ATX). After some gaming and benchmark tests, it looked like the problem was fixed. But then after a week, it happened again. At that point, my cheap SSD was failing because I’d bought it used, so I thought that might be the cause. When I switched to a new high-quality M.2 drive, nothing changed, but this time the crash came with a brief BSOD display. I have a video below showing what the crash looks like from the game boot.
It seems to be getting worse over time. I’m guessing the only thing left undone is my power supply unit, which is probably failing. I’ve spent a lot of money on this PC and I’m starting to get frustrated.
You certainly don't require a specialist for this. It's straightforward—just swap in a compatible, high-quality PSU, remove the old one, detach the connecting cables from the components, and connect them to the new PSU's cables.