I know this is way off topic but this just happened to me and I need to say it.
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For the past day or two my PC has been crashing whenever I played War Thunder for more than 10 minutes. All the error codes were pointing to my GPU being the problem. Anyway I checked everything and nothing seemed out of place until I saw this:
My power supply started melting the cable to the GPU. It would have caused a fire and done some serious damage. For the love of god folks check your systems.
I was lucky and caught it in time but you might not be.
Please take a look and check it to make sure. It only takes around 5 minutes and it’s not hard to do.
Sorry for being off topic but since I found out by trying to troubleshoot War Thunder I thought it best to just say and get it off my mind. Keep yourselves safe guys.
No, it would play fine for a few minutes then my screen would go black and display no signal but the rest of the system would stay on.
I think it may have done some damage to my CPU cooler too as before I opened it up I was seeing CPU temps of 80 degrees just on the desktop and around 110 degrees when running War Thunder. My PC would switch off then as a safety measure from overheating.
I’m honestly just at a loss for how exactly this happened. It looks like it corroded and then started shorting between the wires, the cable and socket are completely melted together.
Check inside your PC first to see if there’s anything clearly physical.
Also check Event Viewer and look for Critical logs as those are usually crashes. Type Reliability into the Windows search bar aswell and look for Critical errors, that’s how I found out the crashes were from the GPU having issues. Sadly it couldn’t tell me it was melting at that point
Fans are deceptively good at hiding dust. You can’t see it when they are spinning and unless you can see in there when it’s powered off you can’t really tell how much dust is in there.
Just something to add to this I posted this on Reddit and someone said they have the same PSU model and have had it for nearly as long as I have had and it has also had this issue earlier this month. I don’t know if anyone else has had this issue or there’s just 2 unlucky people out here.
If you have a Cooler Master MWE 750W V2 PSU check it and make sure.
I’d not opened my laptop up for a good 3 years, and jesus wept it was hideous. I took some photos and it was just fluff that was black like coal soot.
I got myself the most unprofessional of cleaning tools for the cooling fans (toothpicks) but dear christ it sounds much happier now. Runs noticeably better too, and doesn’t heat up nearly as much, or as quickly.
Clearing the fans unprofessionally helps no end, but a quick sweep of hardware will never go amiss. Gives a nice opportunity to air any bits and bobs too.
Once again not a lack of choice, ending with the La Combattante in wich Gaijin didn’t even give SS12 but just SS11 that are way more bad, it’s sad. Dunno how a ship like that can be 4.0 when things like koln are 4.3.
Also really want the 2 meme vehicle like the sherman barge and the boat with FL10 turret.
Don’t rule out a game-related issue after the update… I’ve seen many people in Latin American forums complaining about a drastic increase in CPU temperature. This may have damaged your power supply.
