Hi All, started getting some odd behaviours recently, in the middle of gaming the power just completely cuts out with a loud click. If I go into event viewer, it's the usual 'system lost power unexpectedly' errors. The RAM RGB stays on oddly. Pressing the power button does nothing. Both times I kill the power to the system for 10 seconds, then it fires up perfectly fine. I'm thinking my PSU is getting a bit old (nearly 6 years) and the 3090 is slamming some transient loads into it which are tripping it out. What are people's thoughts?
Time to put the old PSU out of it's misery, before something worse happens and it takes something else with it.
Probably time to replace the PSU. One time at a previous house it actually turned out the plug socket became duff and it wasn't the PSU. But yeah a couple of times I've had similar and then it goes bang or pffft. Luckily they've been built well and never taken anything else with them. E: 6 years isn't old for a quality PSU though (not sure what you have)
I had something similar happening to me a couple of years back. Turned out that the GPU power connectors were a tiny bit loose (the actual plugs on the end of the cables - I ended up having to swap the PCIE power cables for new ones). I reckon that's a bit of a long shot for you, but worth checking? If I was a betting man though, I'd say that your PSU isn't up to it. Do you have a spare you can test with?
