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Well...so far with my old 450W PSU everything seems fine..
I'm entirely okay with this.
I guess my newer PSU just got itself a weak 12V rail over time and shit the bed.
That's a much cheaper fix.
I have a spare PSU, though, that was working fine last time I tried it. Got the 550W because I was moving to a more power hungry video card, but my system as is is actually less power hungry, so it should be fine to test. If the same thing happens I'll still test the 12V rail and see what's...
Yeah, no worries. I wasn't offended. In general I try to exhaust software as the cause when possible before hardware since it's the cheaper fix (and the WAY more difficult to track down to the granular level most of the time).
Only reason I reloaded Windows the first time was from the fact that it was fairly unstable from the get-go, then got better for a month, then went nuts and I had swapped the mobo without doing a fresh install when I installed it so I figured, screw it, i'll go with a fresh install and see what...
that's not the specific motherboard, but it's in the right ballpark. I'm thinking that's the problem as it was an OEM SFF system I pulled it from. As for the drivers, I used DDU to uninstall them every time I tested, and the same thing keeps happening. I don't know of a more thorough way to...
The only thing it's said so far is Kernel Power system crash: it's the not helpful type. Thing is when it crashes it just hard crashes without a dump or BSOD or anything.
So I'm at the end of my rope outside of a couple of hardware swap tests that remain.
About 3 weeks ago or so my computer hard crashed while playing a game, and it acted a little strangely since, but whatever.
It's a mobo from an old Lenovo with an Intel 6500 CPU, Geforce 1050 TI and 8GB of RAM...
Wait, gamers? Gamers or "people who happen to play video games"? A gamer usually refers to a person who makes video games a serious hobby: a gaming enthusiast. Candy crush an hour a week doesn't count at all.