Top 10 Signs of Power Supply Failure

Over our years of experience, there’s very little that our techs haven’t seen from a support standpoint, but one of the most common has always been power supply failure. Here are the top signs that your power supply may be failing.

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[DntTaseMBr]

This dude was straight up no bs to the point without hesitating and not even trying to promote anything even. This channel deserves subscribes.

[coolguy]

Thankfully I came across this video. I though smoke coming from my PC was a feature. 😋

[JJHaughton]

I would never have known that my smoking PSU, which caused my case to give me electric shocks and trip my breaker board, was failing if I hadnt found this video. You've done me a service sir.

[yeahyeah]

#11. If your house is on fire, this could be a sign of a failing power supply.

[gascon]

If your PC and your entire apartment is on fire and the fire brigade is trying to knock down your door to put the fire out, you might have a PSU failure.

[rc]

Some seem obvious, but others are certainly not so obvious...

[LAHover]

simple and top the point! Thank you, thumbs up.

[akaPencils]

I just experienced half of these symptoms all at once... including #10 over the long term in the form of 'power events' being tripped on my power backup unit (seems relevant in hindsight?). Thanks for the handy list on the webpage as a sanity check! Will get it checked out tomorrow.

[ReveredDead]

This is exactly what I was dealing with. My PC suddenly shut down and then it was trying to restart over and over again.

[Ravroid]

Thanks! This is helpful in narrowing down my issue.

[MonstarCave]

Thanks for this video, the first two problems seem to keep happening to me ordered a new PSU today hopefully this solves the issues, had my PSU for 3 years and it started doing this a few months ago didn't think it would be the problem. Love how fast and straight to the point this video is....im gonna subscribe just off of that alone no BS here, appreciate you for this happy holidays.

[pvtgooch]

My pc turns on but the keyboard won’t turn on and the and the monitor says no signal idk what is going on

[naxerfn]

I had a blue screen saying critical process died and now it won't turn on. Do u know what the issue might be

[asdasdzxcvc]

is it possible that my psu cant handle my gpu and it stutters when i play games? because i have good cpu and gpu temps and its not bottlenecking on my game settings

[Zai]

The spontaneous reboot is what I'm actually going through right now

[fredflintstone]

I got a 16 year old 1000 watt PSU I still use. If I don’t use the computer within a few days it usually takes a couple attempts to get going and just shuts off right away. I am guessing the capacitors are getting weak? It’s been this way for around the past 5 years. It’s not my main machine but it’s still great to use to watch Netflix on in my daughters playroom.

[mikar]

You missed a big one: sit in the bios and watch the voltage values. If the 12V, 5V, and 3V rails are below a specific threshold, you have a failing power supply. This is perhaps one of the most frustrating failure types because you can still turn on and boot your computer without immediately being able to identify a low voltage situation, and the symptoms will be completely erratic and very difficult to diagnose.

[asmuchas]

Oh my god!! This is probably what’s wrong with my pc! Thanks!

[JunkandCraft]

Thank you for the video, I was having many of these problems.

[GaleAisentein]

Hi, my mouse and keyboard sometime keep connecting and reconnecting it happen when I plug both mouse and keyboard but if I plug only keyboard i won't happen at all. is it my psu failure? or my mouse just broke down if so, how does a broken mouse cause other usb port error too?