EDIT: Looks like I have a bad capacitor, check these pictures of the motherboard on ECS website and my brown capacitor.. the one near the memory slots.
This could be causing the random shutdowns described below, right?
First of all, some specs that might help:
- Windows 10
- ECS A790GXM
- AMD Phenom II X4 995
- AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
- 10 GB of DDR3 (4+2+2+2)
This is my PC that has been by my side for the past 8~ years, and went through a lot of component upgrades & complete formats. Never had a problem like this.
Two days ago, after I booted it, I heard the CPU fan spike at max speed a few times every a minute or two, without any application/game open.. and after 3-5min, the computer shutdown.
It isn't a "complete" shutdown tho, the screen turned off, but the power led still on and the fans still spinning, but them computer was not "on" too... To recover from this I have to switch the power supply off and on. This keeps happening.
First I tried to find the problem on the software side and started uninstalling everything I could... and yet, the shutdown kept occurring after 5~ minutes of each power up.
I've also opened the case and removed all the components, cleared it, changed my CPU fan to a Blizzard T2 and replaced the thermal paste.. nothing changed.
I've also booted on an Ubuntu stick, and after a few minutes of benchmarking, it shutdown the same way it does on Windows. It also happened on safe mode.
And sometimes, it stays up for 10-30min without shutdown.
Right now, the CPU is at 50ºc and the fan at 2.2k RPM.
With all this, I'm pretty sure it's hardware related.
But how can I pinpoint the component without replacing each one? I don't have spare parts & can't afford a new one of each component.
