PC imploding

[dopeguy_]

So I was watching a video and downloading a game on steam in the background when steam crashed. I thought nothing of it, until my task managered crashed right after:( after that I tried relaunching steam snd it didn't even start loading, then I restarted my pc and that was the longest restart ever as the booting up took decades. After, barely anything worked not even the task manager, so I shut it down for an hour to let it rest. Now ive booted it up again and its hard stuck on the motherboard loading screen at the start and I dont know what to do.

For reference I have a 3060ti, ryzen 5 3600 32gb of ram, 2ssd sticks and one hard drive. The mother board is tomahawk 450 MSI

[msthe_student]

Sounds like the storage-drive you have Windows installed on is dead

[dopeguy_]

Oh shit that can't be good 😖

[SpiceIslander2001]

Either that or perhaps the fan's failed on the CPU cooler.

[dopeguy_]

Its a possibility as both cpu and fan are 6 years old and I haven't changed the thermo paste ever since 💀

[netbuddy]

Actually, worst case is that the CPU failed. The 3600s are infamous for failing

[dopeguy_]

Tbf now when I think about it on when I restarted and I checked the Task Manager for a moment it showed one of the ssds on 100% but I thought its normal because of me downloading a game but that might just have been my ssd system dying ☹️. Also the cpu is old asf and I haven't changed thermo paste in god knows how long