About two weeks ago, I began installing the windows 10 anniversary update. After the first half of installation I shut my PC down.
The next day, I booted the PC up again, but it got stuck in a boot loop. I turned the PC off unplugged it and waited a while. I then turned it back on, it finished installing the update and it worked normally.
But an hour later, it randomly rebooted whilst I was doing some work on word.
I realised it was the PSU, and I borrowed one from another unused PC I had. It works fine for now.
I found this strange because the PSU never gave any indication of instability. No excessive noise, buzzing or heat. I opened it up and there are no bulging cap's, it clean too no dust.
I was thinking that the motherboard could have caused the PSU to go bad. It has always acted strangely. Not long after I bought it, I lost the ability upgrade the BIOS and chipset driver's. About a year ago the onboard graphics died and a week ago two of the rear USB ports exipbited odd behaviour, losing hardware control of my external sound card (volume constantly maxed on 4 out of 6 ports).
My question is, could the mother board have caused the PSU to go bad?
If so, should I upgrade the motherboard and processor now?
Or wait to see if it is stable?
Or potentially sacrifice another PSU?
Current system specs:
Intel Pentium G640 (sandy bridge)
Fujitsu socket 1155 motherboard (can remember the model number)
8gb corsair XMS3 RAM
Seagate 500gb HDD
Old blown PSU XFX TS 450w (based on seasonic design)
Current PSU FSP 300w (can't remember the model number it's 80plus bronze though)
The next day, I booted the PC up again, but it got stuck in a boot loop. I turned the PC off unplugged it and waited a while. I then turned it back on, it finished installing the update and it worked normally.
But an hour later, it randomly rebooted whilst I was doing some work on word.
I realised it was the PSU, and I borrowed one from another unused PC I had. It works fine for now.
I found this strange because the PSU never gave any indication of instability. No excessive noise, buzzing or heat. I opened it up and there are no bulging cap's, it clean too no dust.
I was thinking that the motherboard could have caused the PSU to go bad. It has always acted strangely. Not long after I bought it, I lost the ability upgrade the BIOS and chipset driver's. About a year ago the onboard graphics died and a week ago two of the rear USB ports exipbited odd behaviour, losing hardware control of my external sound card (volume constantly maxed on 4 out of 6 ports).
My question is, could the mother board have caused the PSU to go bad?
If so, should I upgrade the motherboard and processor now?
Or wait to see if it is stable?
Or potentially sacrifice another PSU?
Current system specs:
Intel Pentium G640 (sandy bridge)
Fujitsu socket 1155 motherboard (can remember the model number)
8gb corsair XMS3 RAM
Seagate 500gb HDD
Old blown PSU XFX TS 450w (based on seasonic design)
Current PSU FSP 300w (can't remember the model number it's 80plus bronze though)
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