Blue screen of death......

[guncrasher]

when my ps started to go out the first thing I noticed was a high pitch sound thru the speakers.  I bought a new sound card thinking that was the problem an the problem didn't go away.   I removed the sound card and everything was fine for a couple of weeks.  then my puter went on an infinite boot loop.

I thought it could be the mobo and was gonna order a new one but somebody mentioned about ps and sound.

replaced the ps and haven't had any issues since then.


semp

[MADe]

I will add this.
Nish has made clear he is far from puter literate. He needs a novice method for eliminateing things and narrowing down the cause. Creating a debate is useless to him.
The two links I provided list several possibilities. Hence I suggested getting the specific numerical error code his puter provides. Even then the net will give more than one possibilty. It's possible the machine has quit already, he has not responded recently.
Stop with the I'm right your wrong stuff. Not about that. He needs a laymans method to troublshhot with, yes.
He prolly has only the 1 set of components. Swapping out parts might not be an option even.
A diagnostic of HD, ram and OS are 1st steps. His HD manufacturer might have a diagnostic he can run. For instance.  I did this when a WD drive of mine failed.
So far, he stated only AH crashes so.....:

[Bizman]

MADe, you're perfectly right. That's exactly what was suggested in the first answers to the OP: Backup and HDD diagnostics, if no results then RAM testing, then PSU, in that order.

Since there hasn't been any response from the OP, a natural assumption is to suppose the problem hasn't been solved and therefore the discussion starts to spread beyond the problem in question.

@Chalenge, yes, and alongside of ripple I'm interested in finding any anomalies in a PSU which is starting to fail but hasn't given the big bang yet. I understand that a $15 PSU tester is just a dedicated voltage meter and not any better or worse than a multimeter or the readings in BIOS/windows voltage indicators. Neither of those can tell if the voltages quadruplicate for a split second, the refresh times being long enough to be read. In my wish list there's a pocket size PSU tester which could display all possible ways a PSU could fail in a minute or two.

[Chalenge]

I think you can find everything you want on the Internet. In fact I believe Hardware Secrets did an article on this a few years back using a load tester ($2000) and PC based oscilloscope ($200).

You are not going to get a load tester, like I would use, in your pocket. You can get away with using a pocket type scope, but you have to plug it into something (laptop maybe).