PSU

Our Vista box crashed yesterday and I was a little bit worried. It had been very stable all this while until yesterday morning. It crashed less than 5 mins within the Vista desktop. That evening, when I got home from work I went straight to work on it. My 1st task was off loading the drivers, one after another but the problem still presisted. Then, I jumped onto the hardware diagnostic and found the culprit of all troubles ! an over loaded PSU, atx connecter burned out. From my past experiences, unstable / under powered PSU or faulty / loose connectors would easily crashed window. Sadly our box will be out of order for the next couple of days until I get a new PSu.. In a meantime, I had to struggle with the tiny keyboard and screen on our notebook.

Further reading : PSU stress test.