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Solved Computer randomly rebooted without bsod

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Hey, I have an update! Around an hour ago I finished the swap-in. The xfx PSU had quite a bit of dust in it, I removed what I could although it was not much, and I was really tempted to remove the plate in order to properly clean it - but I also know it's something one should only do if he knows what he's doing, and so I decided against it.

It was a bit of trouble and cables are all around, but it works and I don't think the lack of cable management is an issue. I did as phillpower2 suggested, and it worked, so I decided to risk it, and now it's working with the gpu as well. So as of now I have my "normal build" minus one monitor. What now? I'm going to use it normally, but if you think I should test by doing something specific or try reattaching the second monitor I will. So far so good.

One little thing I noticed is that my gpu was weirdly cool. As in, I started checking temperatures (with "hwinfo") and they were really low, 18°C in Idle when it normally is around 30-40°, I stressed it a little bit by loading some videos and it wouldn't go past 20°C. So I decided to stress a little bit my pc, by opening a game for ten minutes, and after a while the fans started spinning and it reached around 50 degrees; after that, the temps have been pretty normal, right now it's 31°C in idle, so I think everything works correctly. I don't really think the initial behaviour is anything, but I thought I might as well post it because you never know, maybe it's something dangerous I'm not aware of so it would be better to report it, but I really don't think so.

The story behind this psu is that my family member had his gpu die on him, and so he changed build; he told me he never had any issue with the psu, even with the pc as a whole aside from the gpu, as he thinks the gpu dying was not the psu's fault but just the gpu itself being faulty (it used to give some problems, as in infrequent blue screens, and eventually it died after some years while playing). I was a bit anxious about this but I thought that it would have been weird for a PSU to damage only a graphic card and nothing else - maybe this assumption of mine is wrong.

My plan, if this swap-in keeps going well, would be to upgrade most of the computer at the end of the year or around the end of next year, hoping everything would last that long. If you have any other suggestion about what I can do to assure everything is well and normal, I'm all ears!

By the way, I really appreciate keeping this thread open so that I could update on the swap-in.
 
Apologies for the delay getting back to you Lustro, had gremlins of my own to deal with :(

I thought that it would have been weird for a PSU to damage only a graphic card and nothing else - maybe this assumption of mine is wrong.

An add on GPU being the most power hungry component will always suffer first and the most when a weak PSU is being used.

The testing sounds like it`s gone ok and the XFX PSU only had minimal use but entirely up to you if you want to add the second monitor, if you do, expect the internal temps to rise and perhaps as much as by 31°C.

You are welcome :)
 
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No worries, no need to be apologizing! Please do prioritize your own gremlins, and I really appreciate you answering in spite of them.

About the GPU, I see, that makes sense, I guess it's inevitable. During these days everything has been okay as well; I've been doing "ordinary" things, mainly using the browser and the microsoft office applications, and I've had no problems so far. Seems like the gpu temperature has stabilized at around 32 degrees in this state, and I think that's on par with the setup with the old psu as well.

I think I will be gradually testing be more and more stressful situations. I mean: in time, I will start trying some games with one monitor, and if everything is okay I'll try doing that with two monitors, to get back to the condition in which the random reboot occured last time (playing a game with two monitors and online with a discord call open).

But so far it looks stable, and I hope I won't encounter any other issue for the time being. With that in mind, I think I can safely say that the thread can be closed, and if I'll have any update in future (meaning, if I'll keep having issues about it) I won't forget to at least update the thread.

Many thanks, as always, for keeping up with all this! Wish you the best
 
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