So for a few months I have had this weird problem, and I still have it. Pretty much every time I watch a youtube video my system will just die like someone turned off the power and a few seconds later the pc starts up again on it's own and boots back into windows 10 ltsb. So yeah it feels like a psu problem but here is the weird thing. I can play demanding pc games for hours and hours and the pc is 100% stable. I never have any problems when playing a very demanding game like Vermintide 2 literally for 4 hours without shutting the game down. Same goes for mmo's like Warcraft or any game i have played. So I wonder. How the hell can I play those games for hours and hours if the psu is dying? But If I start up a youtube video in chrome browser or Brave browser the pc just shuts off like a power loss happened. Hope some of you have some ideas. Thx!
This is really something that is very difficult to guess, because when you play, the computer is always in active use, but when watching video the computer itself is mostly inactive, and one more important thing - in gaming mode usually unnecessary services and devices, etc. are turned off, but there are also settings for watching video, but at the moment I don't remember where they are. Me seems that it is something very specific and related to this computer only. I may be wrong but still I think, it's not related to power supply.
I think the best thing to do in a situation like this is back up everything and do a clean install u mite even have a corrupted OS somewhere in the registry were is very difficult to trouble shoot and very time consuming to figure out a clean install should fix this in a few minutes.
Alright, I ofc. forgot to get back to this thread (sorry about that). Well, I tried running that little widget called "Don't sleep" and at first it seemed to help but it did not as I kept getting these "power cuts" (or whatever it is). So here I am, still having this problem when watching a youtube video but now I have also experienced it just when browsing the internet. So yeah, I probably have to do a Windows reinstall. Oh, and once again I will say that I think this would be psu issue but well I still am able to play games for hours every evening with the pc running 100% stable (Not kidding, I have never had this "power loss" issue while playing games). It's just a really weird problem that I have never experienced.
Mister you need Strelec Boot Disk ISO. Put it on disk or usb flash drive. Boot PC with Strelec and it has Browser watch YouTube and explore internet and you will see if PC shout down. That give you guidelines for what to do next.
Or any Linux distro will do.Just boot into live mode and start browsing the internets and open a youtube video.My PC being old and malnourished restarts when i try playing an 1080 video on Youtube.
See that sounds exactly like mine but for some reason I can run modern video games on it for hours and hours and it will never crash on those and some of them really puts pressure on it.
I havent got a clue but what springs to my mind is ---- > Three different things = PSU , GPU , CPU . Dont the games run mainly on your GPU and your browsers on the CPU ? Did you Clean the PSU ? Clean the CPU / fan ? Because it sounds to me like it could be overheating . Try the browsers without any addons ? Without any addons and no host file ? Without any addons , host file or antivirus / firewall ?
This is why it has been suggested to boot from a WinPE disk or a live linux distro,it's the least invasive method.Reinstalling the OS with all of its settings and programs takes hours.Shutting down the machine and cleaning/inspecting every cable also takes time. Could be a graphic/audio driver issue too.
Alright so I was about to boot with that WINPE disk but I thought before that I would try just one other thing. So I installed latest Nvidia drivers and went into Bios and chose Optimized defaults. That's a few days ago now and I have not had crashes since. Not sure if it was the GPU driver that needed updating or the bios had to be set to optimized defaults but so far it works without any issues. EDIT: Nevermind. Today I had another case of "powerloss?" or whatever it is in the middle of watching youtube. It was actually working fine for several days until just now. Guess I will try that WINPE disk.
I've actually had this same issue. In my case it started when I got around some 6 months later installing a new sound card I bought in 19 and of course since I was opening the case blow the dust out. I basically managed to narrow it to new sound card but think it also a PSU issue as the new sound card uses a lead from the PSU. However it did even with a clean install of 10 current with updates etc. For a while I was able to get around the issue by not using Google Chrome or Pale Moon to watch Youtube but the really odd thing was Youtube worked fine the Chrome version of Edge and in Opera which also uses the Chrome engine. However I basically decided its the PSU but also in my case most of the hardware in 10+ years old so if PSU failing is possible but as Yetanotherrandom stressing it in their case with games or in my cause using burnin test it didn't which doesn't rule out much. Just need to test the sound card in another system to be sure Of course the old sound card doesn't seem to have working Windows 10 drivers. Event viewer is useless in the issue as the only entry is the last shut down was unexpected but no entry about a problem before it
Okay, I have one suggestion. Do this test : open task manager and check status of processor. 1. I mean open chrome. 2. Open youtube video. 3. Check performance of processor in task manager. 4.is it (cpu) 100% used for around minute and then pc shuts off?