• Is my Motherboard failing?
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I was just on my computer, listening to music on YouTube and also on Facebook then suddenly everything froze and made a strange noise, so i had to press the restart button on my computer. here is the error i got in event viewer. [IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/GND9xm.png[/IMG] What should i do?
If this is the first time it happened I wouldn't worry about it.
[QUOTE=IpHa;41071485]If this is the first time it happened I wouldn't worry about it.[/QUOTE] Yeah this is the first it has froze on me.
That error can mean any number of symptoms from a bad PSU, bad drivers, misbehaving GPU or overclocking too much.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;41078339]That error can mean any number of symptoms from a bad PSU, bad drivers, misbehaving GPU or overclocking too much.[/QUOTE] Oh i don't overclock and my GPU i have had it for a few month's its fine. Though i am not sure of my PSU is bad how do i find that out? also somehow my windows explorer crashed and restarted my desktop...
The only way to really tell a PSU is bad without an expensive oscilloscope and load tester is by visual inspection. Basically you have to unplug the PSU, remove it from the case and open it up. If you see any bulging or leaking capacitors then you know it's bad. But if the PSU is still under warranty, you don't want to open it and void the warranty. But for reference, this is what a dead PSU looks like: [img]http://imageshack.us/a/img807/4474/img0074j.jpg[/img]
I'll keep that in mind thanks.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;41083467]The only way to really tell a PSU is bad without an expensive oscilloscope and load tester is by visual inspection. Basically you have to unplug the PSU, remove it from the case and open it up. If you see any bulging or leaking capacitors then you know it's bad. But if the PSU is still under warranty, you don't want to open it and void the warranty. But for reference, this is what a dead PSU looks like: [img]http://imageshack.us/a/img807/4474/img0074j.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] is it was a if it was really a bad capacitor and that was the only problem, couldn't you just replace it yourself?
[QUOTE=Squerl101;41103283]is it was a if it was really a bad capacitor and that was the only problem, couldn't you just replace it yourself?[/QUOTE] Yeah, you can replace them. But you have to be sure that blown caps are the only problem and you don't have something else wrong like a shorted transformer or dead MOSFETs. I recapped the PSU in that image with Nichicon caps some years ago and it's still working fine. I've recapped other things too (motherboards, TVs, other PSUs, converter boxes, WD Mybooks, etc.) with a pretty high success rate.
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