Hi I yesterday cleaned the dust out of my PC but after restarting it I seemed to have issues where the PC would just randomly kill itself. I was away from it at the time but upon returning had to restart. I did the same thing twice opening Firefox and running some videos. I was quite surprised this occurred twice. I then booted and did not run Firefox with videos but instead tried streaming some stuff. Everything was working fine until I again tried to use Firefox simultaneously with the streaming and again dead.
After rebooting again I got a boot error message from windows to either reinsert disk or start normally. I assumed it may be a psu issue. I tried the boot normal method it again killed the power. I tried this another time same result. I tried again but instead opted to insert disk. My DVD drive is busted but I just wanted to see what would happen. Got a little ways into the prompts then backed out and I believe I repicked boot normally and the system did boot normally to my surprise.taking this opportunity I tried to back up some things to an external drive while I grabbed another PSU. Upon arriving home she was dead again. I switched out the PSU and tried booting but nothing this time. Totally dead. So I did the paper clip test and the new Psu fan spun. Then the old PSU it also spun. I tried putting back the old psu and powering on to see if it booted. I hear a semi loud pop with an associated burning smell. Great. I sniff around but can't really smell anything on the psu. There is a vague burn smell but I can't pinpoint it.
Lastly I try new PSU attaching only motherboard CPU sata drive. Again no power. So I'm sitting there and I suddenly smell a vague but increasing burning smell with out the power being pushed and just everything connected. I Unplug the PSU.
Now I'm not really sure what my next steps should be. The PC is an older gaming PC put together late 09. It's mostly used for browsing streaming and being a Plex server. I thought about trying a new case as I was having some issues with it previously where the power button would not register. Looked around at parts for a new PC etc but I'm not really sure how I should proceed. For the current purposes it doesn't really make sense to me to buy all new etc when I'm doing only basic things any help going forward would be so appreciated. I've been having a rough go of it lately sigh.
PC parts are
GIGABYTE GA-MA790XT-UD4P AM3 DDR3 AMD 790X ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Triple-Core 2.8 GHz Socket AM3 95W HDZ720WFGIBOX Black Processor
CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMX4GX3M2A1600C9
Added another 8 GB ram couple years ago
SAPPHIRE 100283L radeon hd 5770 juniper xt 1gb gddr5 pci-e 2.0 x16 hdcp ready crossfire supported video card
Thanks in advance if anyone takes the time to read this.
After rebooting again I got a boot error message from windows to either reinsert disk or start normally. I assumed it may be a psu issue. I tried the boot normal method it again killed the power. I tried this another time same result. I tried again but instead opted to insert disk. My DVD drive is busted but I just wanted to see what would happen. Got a little ways into the prompts then backed out and I believe I repicked boot normally and the system did boot normally to my surprise.taking this opportunity I tried to back up some things to an external drive while I grabbed another PSU. Upon arriving home she was dead again. I switched out the PSU and tried booting but nothing this time. Totally dead. So I did the paper clip test and the new Psu fan spun. Then the old PSU it also spun. I tried putting back the old psu and powering on to see if it booted. I hear a semi loud pop with an associated burning smell. Great. I sniff around but can't really smell anything on the psu. There is a vague burn smell but I can't pinpoint it.
Lastly I try new PSU attaching only motherboard CPU sata drive. Again no power. So I'm sitting there and I suddenly smell a vague but increasing burning smell with out the power being pushed and just everything connected. I Unplug the PSU.
Now I'm not really sure what my next steps should be. The PC is an older gaming PC put together late 09. It's mostly used for browsing streaming and being a Plex server. I thought about trying a new case as I was having some issues with it previously where the power button would not register. Looked around at parts for a new PC etc but I'm not really sure how I should proceed. For the current purposes it doesn't really make sense to me to buy all new etc when I'm doing only basic things any help going forward would be so appreciated. I've been having a rough go of it lately sigh.
PC parts are
GIGABYTE GA-MA790XT-UD4P AM3 DDR3 AMD 790X ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Triple-Core 2.8 GHz Socket AM3 95W HDZ720WFGIBOX Black Processor
CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMX4GX3M2A1600C9
Added another 8 GB ram couple years ago
SAPPHIRE 100283L radeon hd 5770 juniper xt 1gb gddr5 pci-e 2.0 x16 hdcp ready crossfire supported video card
Thanks in advance if anyone takes the time to read this.