I've had a weird problem recently.
I moved my custom built PC (built in the middle of last year ish) and replaced the power cable then after a couple of weeks had the issue where the following happens:
In the middle of playing Dark Souls II, suddenly monitors go dark (but stay powered on). All peripherals have power (even the keyboard is lighting up), but my sound has stopped and as far as I can tell nothing is happening on the computer.
However, the light is still on (blue light at front of case), and my case fan is still running, though none of my component fans are.
At this point my only solution is to power cycle. Have since replaced the power cable again, and the issue persisted (only while playing Dark Souls II, have not tested with other games).
I don't feel any noticeable heat coming out of the case (except the back of the power supply, which MAY have been a bit hotter than usual, I am not sure). Speedfan when idle shows temperatures in the 40-50 C range. Computer has run flawlessly in the 9 months I've had it until now.
Is the power supply at fault, or is there something else that might cause it?
My specs are as follows:
Aerocool VP650 650W Power Supply
AMD FX-6300 6 Core Black Edition Processor
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB 7200 RPM HDD
ASRock 980DE3/U3S3 Motherboard
Sapphire Radeon R7 265 Dual-X 2GB Graphics Card
Corsair 8GB (2x4GB) 1600MHz Value RAM DDR3
Any answers will be much appreciated.
EDIT: Computer boots with no problems every time.
EDIT 2: After having it happen again, I opened up the case, power supply did indeed seem quite hot. Not hot enough to burn my hand when I touched its housing, but hot.
I moved my custom built PC (built in the middle of last year ish) and replaced the power cable then after a couple of weeks had the issue where the following happens:
In the middle of playing Dark Souls II, suddenly monitors go dark (but stay powered on). All peripherals have power (even the keyboard is lighting up), but my sound has stopped and as far as I can tell nothing is happening on the computer.
However, the light is still on (blue light at front of case), and my case fan is still running, though none of my component fans are.
At this point my only solution is to power cycle. Have since replaced the power cable again, and the issue persisted (only while playing Dark Souls II, have not tested with other games).
I don't feel any noticeable heat coming out of the case (except the back of the power supply, which MAY have been a bit hotter than usual, I am not sure). Speedfan when idle shows temperatures in the 40-50 C range. Computer has run flawlessly in the 9 months I've had it until now.
Is the power supply at fault, or is there something else that might cause it?
My specs are as follows:
Aerocool VP650 650W Power Supply
AMD FX-6300 6 Core Black Edition Processor
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB 7200 RPM HDD
ASRock 980DE3/U3S3 Motherboard
Sapphire Radeon R7 265 Dual-X 2GB Graphics Card
Corsair 8GB (2x4GB) 1600MHz Value RAM DDR3
Any answers will be much appreciated.
EDIT: Computer boots with no problems every time.
EDIT 2: After having it happen again, I opened up the case, power supply did indeed seem quite hot. Not hot enough to burn my hand when I touched its housing, but hot.
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