Dead PSU or GPU?

Mr_White

Mr_White

Mr_White

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Hi everyone.

It's been sometime since I've had to diagnose faulty hardware on my computer, but I'm trying to figure out whether I have a faulty graphics card or faulty power supply.

My power supply unit has been getting quite hot lately and I've been getting lock-ups and crashes which I didn't get before, and so I'm inclined to blame the power supply, also it's now making a buzzing noise when not in operation, which I didn't notice before, so I think this is a recent fault.

But my concern is that the power supply faults could also have daaged the other hardware, that being the graphics card, I have removed the graphics card, RAM, and tried booting the system in these configurations.

With the ram removed I gets a three long peeps to signify RAM error, but when I put the ram back in without the graphics card I get one long beep followed by two short beeps which I believe is graphics or monitor error.

And I also get the same error with the graphics card inserted, so I'm not sure whether the power supply is unable to power the graphics card or the graphics card is dead or if the error code isn't quite right.

With the PSU overheating recently and all the lock ups and crashes I've been getting, I'd like to think it's just the PSU that's dead, as my system was fine when I was playing BF3 last night, and this morning wouldn't boot.

Any input would be appreciated before I buy new hardware, as I haven't had to this sort of thing since the socket A days :p

The mobo is an MSI G54-870A and I couldn't find the fault code list from MSI but I think I managed to get the right ones on google!

Thanks everyone.
 
No spare anything unfortunately.

The only other thing I've noticed is sometimes the GPU fan spins up at idle and sometimes full at post, but I can't deduce anything from that that couldn't also be caused by a faulty PSU.

I'm thinking I'll just have to buy a new a PSU, as things point to that being the error, unless it's still sort of working but took my GPU with it, but since it was fine last night and not this morning, it makes me think the PSU has degraded over night since it's still been connected to the mains, what with the buzzing it now makes etc.
 
It's not exactly brilliant to start with, Corsair CX600 (v1)

It's been getting very hot (for a psu) to the touch in the last week and I think that's taken its toll and it's now failed completely.
 
Although we haven't concluded the problem, I would stay away from the Corsair builder series.

Katsumoto asked have you got a spare PSU.
So I'm gonna ask have you got a spare GPU?
 
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