This problem first manifested a couple of nights ago, when my desktop crashed to a randomly coloured screen while playing Witcher 3, while a constant stuttering sound (like a half second of audio being played over and over again) played over the speakers. The only way out of this was to do a hard shut down.
While this initially seemed to be confined to playing Witcher, crashes have started to occur while the PC is sitting idle without having performed anything difficult. Sometimes, it appears to be brought about by tasks such as updating the antivirus or opening Firefox.
I had a quick look around and saw that the problem is surprisingly common, and that the culprit is almost always failing PSU. There are lots of examples of this on Tom's Hardware, for example. I followed the advice on one thread and downloaded AIDA64 Extreme, so that I could monitor the voltage in the voltage rails over the course of a half hour stability test. Unfortunately, this hasn't really helped - I've run the stability test twice, and on each occasion the computer crashed to a coloured screen after just over four minutes of testing. During that time, the voltage on the voltage rails didn't change, and appeared to be correct, and the temperature never got above 30 degrees C.
Having reached this stage, I'm reluctant to keep trying to look for things while running a stability test, or even to turn the computer on, since I think that hard shutdowns are bad for the computer? Can anybody offer any advice at this point?
Thank you for any help you can give! My specs are as follows:
AMD FX-6 six core 6300 3.5 GHz
Seagate Barracuda 1 TB SATA 6 Gb/s 64 MB cache HDD
Corsair builder series CX 600 W V2 80 plus bronze power supply
2 x 4 GB ddr3 RAM
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard
Radeon R9 280X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
While this initially seemed to be confined to playing Witcher, crashes have started to occur while the PC is sitting idle without having performed anything difficult. Sometimes, it appears to be brought about by tasks such as updating the antivirus or opening Firefox.
I had a quick look around and saw that the problem is surprisingly common, and that the culprit is almost always failing PSU. There are lots of examples of this on Tom's Hardware, for example. I followed the advice on one thread and downloaded AIDA64 Extreme, so that I could monitor the voltage in the voltage rails over the course of a half hour stability test. Unfortunately, this hasn't really helped - I've run the stability test twice, and on each occasion the computer crashed to a coloured screen after just over four minutes of testing. During that time, the voltage on the voltage rails didn't change, and appeared to be correct, and the temperature never got above 30 degrees C.
Having reached this stage, I'm reluctant to keep trying to look for things while running a stability test, or even to turn the computer on, since I think that hard shutdowns are bad for the computer? Can anybody offer any advice at this point?
Thank you for any help you can give! My specs are as follows:
AMD FX-6 six core 6300 3.5 GHz
Seagate Barracuda 1 TB SATA 6 Gb/s 64 MB cache HDD
Corsair builder series CX 600 W V2 80 plus bronze power supply
2 x 4 GB ddr3 RAM
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard
Radeon R9 280X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
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