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Hi folks Need some help here.
Ok,....story time.
A few days ago, wednesday maybe, my computer (Built 3 months ago) suddenly locked up and went into a BSOD/restart cycle, showing a WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR stop code, so, after trying and failing to re-install windows, thinking that was the issue, i ran memtest, that through a couple of errors at me, so i replaced the ram yesterday with some QVL listed 3600Mhz memory (the old memory was 2666MHz and wasn’t on my board’s QVL list, as it was recycled from my old intel system, as was the 850W PSU that has now died)
After installing the new ram, i tried to shut down/restart the system by pressing the power and reset buttons on the case, neither worked, so had to do it through the bios. Now that i think about it, that should have been my first warning there was something wrong with the PSU, but i didn’t consider that.
ALL Attempts to reinstall windows from a usb failed, it would get to stage 2 of the install process, get to about 5%, then go back into a BSOD/Reboot cycle.
Then i went into My bios’s flashback utility, and i noticed that my boot drive was reading as having data on it, a full windows install, which it should not have had, because I’d previously wiped it, so i wiped it again, ran a smart selftest, that came back fine as well.
Next i ran memtest again with the new memory installed just to be sure, that came back clean.
I tried running Parted Magic from a usb, but got an error while trying to load it saying my ssd was missing/had invalid SUBNQN field, which is apparently a firmware issue.
SO, i tried loading up another Linux distro on another usb to load up a disk manager app sebrant released to update the nvme ssd firmware, the second distro wouldn’t boot (Tiny Core Linux), so i tried Parted Magic again, i somehow got that to load, but it would not let me run that disk manager app, It’s own disk health app wouldn’t recognise the nvme ssd, but the partition editor app did see it.
So having no joy with the sebrant rocket ssd firmware update attempt, i thought “Ok, time to roll back the bios, as that was the last thing i updated before it crashed”, but i didn’t get the chance.
After shutting down the system from parted magic’s desktop, i tried to power on the system again to roll back the bios, but it Would. Not. Power. On.
So after a quick talk on discord, with some people who are more minded that me, they concluded my psu was dead.
Now I’m worried it’s damaged the ssd or motherboard, and that board was expensive.
Sooo....I need a replacement PSU for a system with the following components.
3900X cpu,
H100i AIO cooler,
x570 ITX ASUS motherboard,
2070 Super,
32 gigs of RAM (brand new),
1TB Sebrant nvme ssd as OS and application drive (hopefully not bricked).
Will 850W be enough or should i go higher? Someone i spoke to on discord seemed to think 850 watts was a bit tight, considering what I’ve got in the system. (The old PSU was 850W)
And what are the chances the rest of my system has survived intact? Since now that i think about it, the failing psu could be the reason the ram i also reused from my old system was showing faults in memtest (plus it’s also 5 yo, and wasn’t on my new board’s QVL).
Ok,....story time.
A few days ago, wednesday maybe, my computer (Built 3 months ago) suddenly locked up and went into a BSOD/restart cycle, showing a WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR stop code, so, after trying and failing to re-install windows, thinking that was the issue, i ran memtest, that through a couple of errors at me, so i replaced the ram yesterday with some QVL listed 3600Mhz memory (the old memory was 2666MHz and wasn’t on my board’s QVL list, as it was recycled from my old intel system, as was the 850W PSU that has now died)
After installing the new ram, i tried to shut down/restart the system by pressing the power and reset buttons on the case, neither worked, so had to do it through the bios. Now that i think about it, that should have been my first warning there was something wrong with the PSU, but i didn’t consider that.
ALL Attempts to reinstall windows from a usb failed, it would get to stage 2 of the install process, get to about 5%, then go back into a BSOD/Reboot cycle.
Then i went into My bios’s flashback utility, and i noticed that my boot drive was reading as having data on it, a full windows install, which it should not have had, because I’d previously wiped it, so i wiped it again, ran a smart selftest, that came back fine as well.
Next i ran memtest again with the new memory installed just to be sure, that came back clean.
I tried running Parted Magic from a usb, but got an error while trying to load it saying my ssd was missing/had invalid SUBNQN field, which is apparently a firmware issue.
SO, i tried loading up another Linux distro on another usb to load up a disk manager app sebrant released to update the nvme ssd firmware, the second distro wouldn’t boot (Tiny Core Linux), so i tried Parted Magic again, i somehow got that to load, but it would not let me run that disk manager app, It’s own disk health app wouldn’t recognise the nvme ssd, but the partition editor app did see it.
So having no joy with the sebrant rocket ssd firmware update attempt, i thought “Ok, time to roll back the bios, as that was the last thing i updated before it crashed”, but i didn’t get the chance.
After shutting down the system from parted magic’s desktop, i tried to power on the system again to roll back the bios, but it Would. Not. Power. On.
So after a quick talk on discord, with some people who are more minded that me, they concluded my psu was dead.
Now I’m worried it’s damaged the ssd or motherboard, and that board was expensive.
Sooo....I need a replacement PSU for a system with the following components.
3900X cpu,
H100i AIO cooler,
x570 ITX ASUS motherboard,
2070 Super,
32 gigs of RAM (brand new),
1TB Sebrant nvme ssd as OS and application drive (hopefully not bricked).
Will 850W be enough or should i go higher? Someone i spoke to on discord seemed to think 850 watts was a bit tight, considering what I’ve got in the system. (The old PSU was 850W)
And what are the chances the rest of my system has survived intact? Since now that i think about it, the failing psu could be the reason the ram i also reused from my old system was showing faults in memtest (plus it’s also 5 yo, and wasn’t on my new board’s QVL).
