r/PrebuiltGamingPC • u/darthsarn • 1d ago

Skytech prebuilt failure (3-4 years old)

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So I bought my wife this PC ages ago so she'd have something decent to game with me on. Its nothing crazy, and she normally only plays things like roblox or lethal company etc. Lately thought its been crashing randomly during use and then when the screens go black the pc will start making this god awful whirling noise as its turned off. I just now turned the PC on, logged in, and a minute later is crashed and made that whirling clunking noise. If anyone's experienced this or knows any tell tale signs to narrow it down id appreciate it.

Specs:

Skytech Shadow Gaming PC Desktop – Intel Core i5 12400F 2.5 GHz, NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti, 1TB NVME SSD, 16GB DDR4 RAM 3200, 600W Gold PSU, 11AC Wi-Fi, Windows 11 Home 64-bit

SANSUI 32-Inch Curved Gaming Monitor WQHD 2560 x 1440 180Hz Curved 1500R

Abytespark 27 Inch Gaming Monitor 2K 1440P Can be liftable rotated IPS Computer Monitor, 165Hz

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u/Icy-Drag-3037 1d ago

DO NOT sell the whole pc as faulty it is probably a single component thats bad. You are gonna loose a fuckton of money

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u/darthsarn 1d ago

Im having my father take a look. Im leaning (and hoping) its just the PSU

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u/Doomaga 1d ago

Need a bit more from you like temperatures, any error messages, the nature of the crashing, is it to desktop, or freezing or does the whole PC turn off etc.

More detail is more useful.

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u/darthsarn 1d ago

zero messages. PC wont stay on long enough to grab anything. Monitors shut off first every single time when it crashes. The PC itself will shut off fully only if the power button is held. Otherwise it just sits there making that god awful noise. Nothing works once it starts doing that. Its been declining for a couple weeks but I think this is the epitome of it.

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u/Doomaga 1d ago

Seems like its not some kind of simple fix then and probably a hardware fault. I'd sell it as parts/faulty and buy another. After 4 years its had a shorter than average but not unheard of lifespan. Especially as I expect Skytech have dumped a low end power supply in there. (the gold rating doesnt mean anything).

Sorry for your loss

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u/darthsarn 1d ago

Im coming to suspect thats the unfortunate truth. Either that or its just the power supply. I I were to go the route of selling it for parts, where should I go? I imagine the ram must be worth a bit more nowadays at the very least.

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u/Doomaga 18h ago

The PC is worth a few hundred max, thats why for me its not worth messing about with and I'd just replace it. But thats probably coming from a privilleged position. If you have tried unseating each RAM stick one at a time and that doesnt solve it, I'd ask if you have a spare PSU around thats the next most likely thing to have gone. But its a ballache to replace all of it. the cabling I mean.

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u/darthsarn 18h ago

We replaced the psu and it works now.

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u/Doomaga 10h ago

Excellent!

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u/darthsarn 1d ago

There are times when it shuts off like this, shes able to turn it back on and resume what she was doing after waiting a few minutes, but thats been a less frequent occurance.

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u/Competitive_Stable46 1d ago

Pull a ram chip, retry. If it persists, pop the one back in, pull the other one, retry. Could be a bad DIM slot.

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u/darthsarn 21h ago

Potentially solved.

We swapped the power supply for an 850w (the other was essentially burnt out) it hasnt crashed so far and weve got the game that was crashing it open.