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Computer gurus - crashing PC - ginge191 - 22-02-2017
Built this PC about 2 years ago and never had a problem until now.
Various problems:
- PC will disconnect monitor/display but continue running in the background
- PC will attempt to boot for 2 seconds, turn off and repeat
- PC will freeze on screen when multiple processes are happening - ie, loading 2/3 items of software at once
All problems when reading around point to PSU..
specs as current are :
Windows 10
intel i5 4460
4GB RAM - corsair vengence
PSU - Corsair CX500M
Mobo gigabyte GA Z97P - D3
Radeon R9 290x
Ideas on a postcard...
EDIT:
It also went through a spout of throwing up srttrail.txt a few times - BIOS resets seems to sort this and the above issues out...MOST of the time but it's so unpredictable... could be running the PC for 2 minutes then boom, dead, or 2hours...
RE: Computer gurus - crashing PC - MisterGTR - 22-02-2017
No expert. But first thing to check would be the memory. Run memtest (might be showing my age here) or whatever the current equivalent is.
RE: Computer gurus - crashing PC - Eeyore - 22-02-2017
can you check the windows error logs? might be logging things even if its not actually crashing.
RE: Computer gurus - crashing PC - ginge191 - 23-02-2017
(22-02-2017, 09:28 PM)Eeyore Wrote: can you check the windows error logs? might be logging things even if its not actually crashing.
![[Image: bZiUqCH.png]](http://i.imgur.com/bZiUqCH.png)
these.. ?
RE: Computer gurus - crashing PC - Eeyore - 23-02-2017
yeh what are the ! errors? stuff is usually in here. You will need to record times that stuff happens and then check the same times in here.
RE: Computer gurus - crashing PC - Midnightclub - 23-02-2017
You want to be looking under System rather than application really
RE: Computer gurus - crashing PC - ginge191 - 23-02-2017
System errors:
![[Image: N5P7mbq.png]](http://i.imgur.com/N5P7mbq.png)
EDIT: DistributedCOM is a networking error..
RE: Computer gurus - crashing PC - Eeyore - 23-02-2017
yeh you need to look at that immediately after the issue. might be able to see whats going on.
ccleaner is a good product for clearing out crap and making things faster.
RE: Computer gurus - crashing PC - MisterGTR - 24-02-2017
Look at what happened in the log right before a crash. Assuming you've checked your memory.