Computer gurus - crashing PC

[ginge191]

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...

[MisterGTR]

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.

[Eeyore]

can you check the windows error logs? might be logging things even if its not actually crashing.

[ginge191]

can you check the windows error logs? might be logging things even if its not actually crashing.

these.. ?

[Eeyore]

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.

[Midnightclub]

You want to be looking under System rather than application really

[ginge191]

System errors:




EDIT: DistributedCOM is a networking error..

[Eeyore]

yeh you need to look at that immediately after the issue. might be able to see whats going on.

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ccleaner is a good product for clearing out crap and making things faster.

[MisterGTR]

Look at what happened in the log right before a crash. Assuming you've checked your memory.