PSU on its way out?

AshB1989 · 19 Oct 2020 at 19:37

Hi,

I'm a fairly novice builder, but I think my PSU is knackered and I'm hoping you guys can help.

Recently I've been gaming and my screen suddenly goes off. I can still hear music/gameplay through my headphones but nothing brings my monitor back to life unless I reboot it. This is happening almost instantly now when I turn it on, so need to get it resolved.

Faulty PSU or a different issue?

TIA.

AshB1989 · 19 Oct 2020 at 19:47

Apologies.

Corsair CX550M semi modular tax PSU. Powering Ryzen 5 1600, AB250m mobo, ssd and 1070ti mini.

Cheers

I've noticed it flickers off, then the fans go mental in the case. Not sure if it is significant.

AshB1989 · 20 Oct 2020 at 19:39

Bizarely it appears to have settled and been okay since posting this. It did it around 4/5 times before settling down. Are there any tests I can do for the GPU?

AshB1989 · 21 Oct 2020 at 18:04

I'll give that a blast then. Are you aware of any free software that highlights drivers that need updating? I don't have a clue what version I have so don't want to upgrade the wrong thing!

Thanks

AshB1989 · 21 Oct 2020 at 20:37

Thank you very much, I'll give that a blast.

AshB1989 · 24 Oct 2020 at 11:39

Just an update. I went on my decks last night, which is powered by USB, and I noticed they weren't getting enough power. I moved the USB to a different slot and it began to work. Does this point towards a dodgy PSU again? Or potentially mobo?

AshB1989 · 24 Oct 2020 at 19:38

Oh dear. Would that coincide with the previously mentioned issues? I suppose the DP issue would be GPU, not mobo?

AshB1989 · 30 Oct 2020 at 21:34

So it just went off and I rebooted. This is what I saw -

Once I rebooted it was okay again.

I've just looked in Windows Event Viewer and seen the following message:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) did not load:
dam

It appears to be fine when I'm just browsing/YT, but struggles when gaming.