While on holiday (of course it would happen the first day away literally about 3 hrs after we left) my son rang and said his PC had partially died. He had turned it on for the first time in the day and heard a loud very audible click and then his PC black screened. He got back into his OS (Linux Mint) and desktop use was fine but firing up a game just crashed out. No smell of burning and no smoke. PC is as follows Gigabyte B550 motherboard (2nd hand from his friend) 5700X (2nd hand from his friend) 32gb DDR4 Corsair ram (new when built) Nvidia 4070 super (new when built) 2 WD 770 M2 SSD's (new when built) Additional M2 SSD in a pcie card (from old PC) Corsair 850E PSU (new when built) He does have the ability to dual boot windows but he couldn't remember how to do it at the time. Does this sound like hardware failure, probably PSU or GPU? I've given everything a quick visual check and cant see anything amiss. I have his 4070 out to test in my PC and can swap his PSU for my as both corsair but holding off first for advice here as obviously i don't want to kill anything in my PC.
Old post - you still having issues? A loud click is often the PSU protecting itself with the hardware cut off due to a short circuit or bad PSU - worth swapping the PSU out if you can and trying again!
I meant to update this the other day. Ram tested and deemed good with a full me test cycle. 4070 super tested in my pc for a few games of BF6 and a few runs of unigine. Swapped my Corsair 850X for his 850e and problem still exists. One thing I forgot to mention is his bios settings never seems to be stored when the pc is turned off at the wall even with a brand new battery installed. Problem still exists when the bios settings are corrected though. I'm wondering if it might be a dicky drive, he has two nvme ssd's in the boards own slots and a further one in a pcie adaptor. He dual boots Linux mint and windows 10 with mint being on the pcie drive. I believe he had problems with both OS's, extremely poor FPS in games and laggy desktop in Linux and blue screening in win 10.
