Pc shut down randomly, now is dead aside from a single click in psu

Kandex

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Tonight, my pc I built randomly shut down without warning, at first I thought it was a power cut but it wasn’t, it was just the pc which would not come back on.

There is no sign of life at all unless you unplug everything and leave it a couple of minutes, if you do that and press the power button you can hear a small click coming from the PSU but nothing else.

I have attempted to clean the entire system, ensured every wire is connected correctly and snuggly and also swapped out the PSUs power cord but to no avail, nothing changed.

The system is just a couple of weeks over a year old and has been cleaned regularly, never overclocked and running only Chrome, blue stacks and discord at the time.



CPU Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-H110M-H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory
Video Card Sapphire Radeon RX 470 4GB Video Card
Power Supply Corsair CSM 450W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply


Any help would be much appreciated, I’m not that technical so simple explainations would be best and currently unable to purchase any replacement parts so advice for stuff to try in the meanwhile is much appreciated.
 
Solution
Easiest thing to do is swap in another power supply. If you (or a friend) don't happen to have a spare, then there are other ways to test your PSU.

There are a number of different testers available on amazon. And lots of youtube videos.

There is even this one; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixcWCrYpw3Y which suggests that you can test your power supply with a paper clip. EVGA PSUs come with a little adapter that essentially does the same thing as the paper clip, but takes the guesswork out of which pins to choose.

neiler0847

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Easiest thing to do is swap in another power supply. If you (or a friend) don't happen to have a spare, then there are other ways to test your PSU.

There are a number of different testers available on amazon. And lots of youtube videos.

There is even this one; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixcWCrYpw3Y which suggests that you can test your power supply with a paper clip. EVGA PSUs come with a little adapter that essentially does the same thing as the paper clip, but takes the guesswork out of which pins to choose.

 
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