PSU issue?

dod · 17 May 2017 at 09:05

quick query guys. Could a dodgy PSU cause issues relating to slow boot up and random freezes?

dod · 17 May 2017 at 09:15

Cheers, I was thinking dodgy driver or os to start with but disconnected everything but boot drive and up she came. I'll pick up a new Psu and try that

dod · 17 May 2017 at 11:09

it's not the PSU, swopped in a 1000W COrsair, RM1000X, been thinking of doing that for a while anyway.

now got 1 stick of RAM, Asus board, 3770 cpu at stock, one corsair SSD. Froze after about 5 mins. CPU in bios showing 33C under stock cooler. I'll build it back up and see where it jams.

dod · 17 May 2017 at 11:49

I already went to do a fresh install on another new drive. Went fine apart from the fact that all my driver disks are at my ex's house

Just a gut feel but I think theres a software thing going on. Rolled back to the previous W10.

Boot time, better
tried different slots/sticks, was still freezing.

dod · 17 May 2017 at 12:17

hardware monitor is giving me a different story, all four cores hitting between 60-64 with no real load on them.

dod · 17 May 2017 at 12:17

roll back didnt make any difference either

dod · 17 May 2017 at 12:51

Microsoft Windows: The application is not responding. The program may respond again if you wait

dod · 17 May 2017 at 13:13

Started last night, rolled back and it seemed to stop for a while, that's it back though. It happens when you're in an application, everything just freezes and up it pops . I'm doing a reset via settings, should take it back to a clean system

dod · 17 May 2017 at 15:12

Memtest ran, no errors. CPU was showing about 52 in that. Now though it's back to taking ages to boot again. Nothing has changed. :mad:

dod · 17 May 2017 at 15:24

No, just in memtest which was about 30 minutes. can't get it to boot at all now, this is doing my head in.

dod · 18 May 2017 at 08:30

I think it's the drive. I've another boot drive with a clean install that works fine. It won't boot with the other drive installed, just hangs in the windows icon.
Plugging it in after the system has booted shows it in file manager but you can't access anything.
Still going to reseat everything but its pointing at the drive , Sandisk extreme SSD

dod · 18 May 2017 at 09:21

its a pain. I don't have driver disks and can't access the internet on that machine. I've got a laptop here but no external hard drive. I'm just going to treat it as a new build and give everything a good clean when I'm at it.

dod · 18 May 2017 at 16:04

Thanks for the help mate. Back up and running fine with a brand new Win10 install on a new HD. Took the chance to upgrade the cooler at the same time, nothing fancy, just better than the stock.
Busy reinstalling all the bloody software I need to use. Thankfully I only use the boot drive for the os, all my work is kept on separate drives with automatic backups to other drives so apart from a bit of irritation there's no real harm done.