On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 16:44:24 -0400, Flasherly wrote:

| On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 16:27:40 -0400, Larc
| wrote:
|
| Symptoms: started rebooting occasionally, progressively increasing with prior mouse
| pointer fadeout or freeze (cordless and corded mouse) - stopped seeing USB wifi
| adapter, although USB drives would still work - now won't post at all (power comes on
| and case PLED and fans run for about 20 seconds, then reboot, rinse and repeat) - no
| HDD LED - no signal to wake monitor - power to DVD burner on. Multiple reconnections
| and even reseating of the CPU and heatsink/fan and trying different memory modules
| didn't help.
|
| PSU: Tested thoroughly with comprehensive digital PSU tester and everything 100%
|
| Is there anything else I should check out? I'd like to learn it's not the
| motherboard since a replacement that could accommodate the 7th generation i3 CPU in
| it would cost about as much as a new 300 series board and i3-9100 CPU combined.
|
| I'm not running a higher powered setup here since this isn't a main system, but one I
| use for Windows Insider development testing.
|
| Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty H270 Performance
| PSU: Corsair CX500M
|
| Regardless, I might throw a fresh PS at it before offhand writing it
| off. (Once had an old (early Pentium, maybe dualcore) ASUS MB that
| became quirky to intolerable. I kept it running on the quirky side by
| tossing it fresh power supplies every couple of years. Eventually
| beyond old won out and happened over quirky and squeezing pennies from
| something that probably lasted me five years. In that case it was one
| where an inexpensive PS replacements were as good, evidently, than
| anything more serious. Back in the days. . .a PS is likely now the
| more expensive proposition.)

I happen to have a new PSU coming for another system and can try it in this one
first.

Larc