About two or three years ago I built an APU PC with the following specs:
- AMD A10 7700K
- 1866MHz RAM (corsair vengence)
- Asus A88XM-PLUS Motherboard
- WD Blue 1 TB HDD
- Corsair CX600M PSU
- Fairly generic Corsair case
The Mobo, CPU and RAM were all bundled together and pre-installed so out of the box I only had to screw it in and attach all the relevant cables (just because it was easier and shipping is expensive in the UK).
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One issue I did have at the time was where to plug the fans in, and I ended up with the rear, cpu and one front fan being the only fans I installed, the rest never being used.
During the first year of using it, occasionally the PC would randomly power down (I was using Ubuntu at the time, if it matters), although I figured that it was the 664 pin mobo power cable being loosely fit, which it was, as I could fix this by pushing on it to go back in, and then hitting power. I might not have installed it properly from the beginning, as I was scared of breaking the Mobo.
This issue went away after a while.
I upgraded to Win 8 and started using it more intensely, and there were no issues for a while.
About ~3-4 months ago I moved into a tighter space (and upgraded to Win 10) and it was a very tight fit with my computer and chair. Occasionally I would knock the computer, if not that violently, and about 2 months ago the computer would suddenly reboot, with a screen before loading windows and after the prompt to open bios of something like "Automatic reboot due to power surge".
One night, at the start of last month, I knocked my computer during an intense session (Skype, CSGO and someother programs running). It rebooted with the same "power surge" message before windows loaded, all the programs open began to load again, and about 2mins in, the computer froze, and the previously very loud sound of the hard drive stopped; after nothing moved (no loading icons or mouse movement or colour change) and a wait of a few minutes I restarted, and encountered the same problem, and again and again and again. I assumed It was due to a long session, and left it to cool overnight.
Here's what Ive done to try and troubleshoot the problem:
- Using the Advanced troubleshooting options (refresh and restore points; both hung mid process)
- Airing the PC out with canned air
- Reinstalling Windows (from USB) several times
- CHKDSK and CHKDSK /r /f /x (hung mid-process)
- Installing a new Harddrive with a new sata cable (note: I havent tried every sata port on the Mobo yet)
- Using WD repair utility (hung once but then also fully finished an extended test with a pass)
Any help is appreciated and I will remove this if asked.