Is My 14yr Old Antec TruePower Quattro 850 Finally Giving Up?

TehBluebear

TehBluebear

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Hi all,

I've been having a few issues lately, with the PC being sluggish to start (multiple resets before reaching boot), but now power seems to be tripping while actually using the computer as well.

I noticed the start-up behaviour start to happen after bumping up the juice on my venerable i5-3570k, but paid it no mind at the time. Now that it's started to power cut while in use however, I reverted all settings back to defaults but the issue is still occuring.

The cuts seem to be random; it's cut out while on the desktop with nothing running, while browsing the internet etc. Will test further but I'm not sure load is an issue.

There's also no appreciable noise out of the ordinary; the PSU sounds the same as it ever did back when I first got it for a Q6600 based build(!)

Before I start chucking parts at the PC (as I can't afford to do a full refresh at the moment), is there a way to conclude if it is definitively the PSU at fault, or if it's something like the motherboard or even CPU?

Thanks.
 
Tetras said:
By sluggish to start, do you mean slow to load Windows, or that it literally doesn't start? Like, black screens, hanging at bios screen?

Since it happened just after you messed with the BIOS, I'd consider doing a full reset, because you may have missed something when putting the settings back.

Do you have any monitoring software that can log the 12v/5v, etc values, so that when it resets you can check them? Not particularly informative in most cases because the software readings are... eh, but can be worth a try.

Done any smart tests/diagnostics on the boot drive?

You could try forcing the CPU to run at stock clocks, rather than downclock when idle, as some older PSUs have issues with modern CPUs low power states. That usually applies more to 4th gen onwards than 3rd gen.

You're sure you put the memory settings back (voltage and timings) correctly too?
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As in it will power on and then power off a few times before getting to boot.

I've already used the option in the advanced settings to return to default, but I'll look to see if there's anything that I've missed.

I have HWmonitor but not sure if that has any longterm logging capabilities.

Boot SSD is reading Good (94%) on CrystalDiskInfo, nothing concerning on that.
 
I did a memtest and first pass was fine with no errors. Then the PC crashed when starting the second pass and had a spate of a few crashes on startup, and now I'm not getting any output to my monitor which is odd.
 
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