April 2019 - last edited April 2019
gonna have to try this tomorrow, but quickly one last thing. When you say "You connect up the old PSU into the wall and connect the CPU or ATX plug into the motherboard with the missing power sockets"
are you referring to the little 4 pin connector on my motherboard (shown in figure 2 (b) of the image) as the 'missing sockets' ?
Im fairly comfortable with the paperclip steps and what not, but is that 4 pin connector the only thing my old PSU will be connected through?
April 2019 - last edited April 2019
When i mean wall i mean mains outlet and yes A and B needs to be filled with the power connectors if they are not already.
Yep the rest of your hardware should be powered fine, GPU has the two power slots filled and the motherboard just needs the extra slot filled.
April 2019
Looking at my PC now the only empty socket is the small 4 pin one. figure A already seems to be taken up.
April 2019
Cool then yeah.
Each 4 pin socket can supply 75watts 75+75=150w but your CPU is rated for 180w so 75x3=225w
April 2019
Alright, thanks for the clarification.
Will do this testing tomorrow.
Ty
April 2019
Hey, taking a step back i aint that confident in doing all that wiring stuff.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Apex-legends-dxgi-error-device-hung/td-p/7794112
I did find this guy, supposedly getting the same issue. saw another individual in the daily discussion threads on the apex subreddit.
other games working fine, so probs will just play those in the meantime. Cheers for the help though.
April 2019
Its not the same issue as you have device removed error and he has a radeon card which AMD have not uploaded the fix for the hung errors yet. (only nvidia)
You will probably get issues when certain games start to use more CPU power.
If thats the case then just get the PSU.
I don't know if your old PSU has two 8 pin CPU power connectors to check this so rewiring everything maybe in vain.
April 2019 - last edited April 2019
Nah it doesnt have that unfortunately.
Is there some stress test program that can push my comp to the max? I believe you linked one previously.
(will also add that i received the DEVICE_ERROR_HUNG error in the past alongside dxgi device removed)
April 2019
this one is for cpu's https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/prime95.html
Select the option for most heat and power.
to stop the test click test at the top left and click stop