Hi everyone,
Hoping you can help with some weird issues with either my PSU or SDDs. I recently made a new Ryzen build, but kept my old PSU and SSDs from about 5 years ago.
PSU: Corsair TX 650
SSD1: Crucial M4 120gb
Nothing fancy otherwise, Ryzen 1700, 8gb RAM, Samsung 960-M1, Samsung 840, 1tb HDD and a Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti.
I'm facing two problems:
What do you think the problem is here?
I've done SMART checks on the SSDs and they show healthy. I did occasionally have issues with the M4 so maybe the SSDs are dying. On the other hand, the occasional issues booting up make me think the PSU is old? I used a PSU calculator and even with serious degradation I thought my 650wt would be enough though?
Hoping you can help with some weird issues with either my PSU or SDDs. I recently made a new Ryzen build, but kept my old PSU and SSDs from about 5 years ago.
PSU: Corsair TX 650
SSD1: Crucial M4 120gb
Nothing fancy otherwise, Ryzen 1700, 8gb RAM, Samsung 960-M1, Samsung 840, 1tb HDD and a Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti.
I'm facing two problems:
- Occasionally when I boot up, I get an error saying "connect PCIe power cable(s) to graphics card". Generally I just have to open my case and replug my 6-pin and 8-pin connectors once or twice and then it boots up fine. I have had no issues gaming so far. (I have had the occasional game crash, but who doesnt?)
- I've had both of the two old SSDs not show up in Windows. Normally they were fine, but when booting up the Crucial M4 was not 'initializing'. I checked disk management and when I tried to initialize it said it was missing a file. When I went into my case and re-plugged everything it booted fine.
What do you think the problem is here?
I've done SMART checks on the SSDs and they show healthy. I did occasionally have issues with the M4 so maybe the SSDs are dying. On the other hand, the occasional issues booting up make me think the PSU is old? I used a PSU calculator and even with serious degradation I thought my 650wt would be enough though?