Possible PSU problems

[venney]

Hello everyone, well its about time i post a problem.

As much as i love my pc, there are some problems with it.

For some really strange reason, my pc has been crashing. The only way i can explain why its wired is that i had music playing, all of a sudden it stopped. i walk over to the pc to see what’s wrong, and rebooting. so i just went off and continued getting ready for work. i came back, and all the web pages i was on were back, and windows media player was back up. now unless i put it in sleep mode with my remote by accident (which i dont think i did) there has to be a problem.

The other symptom is that sometimes the pc will not even boot up. I will press the on button and nothing. As if its not plugged in. i mess around with the lead at the back, turn the psu power switch on and off, cum back in a bit and try again and it sometimes works.

Now my deduction is that the psu is dieing? which would be great, as i do want a new quiet one, so this is a perfect chance to spend some hard earned money!

What do you recon?

Thanks for any advice. I am meaning to open it up and make sure all the cables are fully pushed in.

[liljim]

it does sound like psu trouble, mainly because you said it sometimes wont power up but i suggest you run a memtest also. Memory will cause a machine to reboot more often than a psu. Run memtest 86 overnight just to eliminate the possibility.

[venney]

thanks for the advice jim, ill get on it tonight and see how it goes.

update tomorrow