Hello,
I'm looking for an advice with a crashing / restarting computer.
Few months back I bought and built a new computer. The problem is that it occasionally restarts itself. I use the computer about an hour or two every day every evening and little bit more over weekends. This occasional restarts happens about once a week, sometimes even less. So far, I think I've experienced four or five restarts. The main problem is that I'm not able to associate it with any particular activity.
To be more specific, it is really just a complete shutdown and restart, no blue screen. It looks like a short power issue, but I'm guessing that it's really the motherboard detecting some issue and shutting down to prevent more damage (or something like that). As I said above, I can't really tie it to any particular activity. I think in about half of the cases it happen when I played a computer game (Age of Empires Online to be precise which is annoying because there is no auto-save), but in the other cases in happened when doing something completely harmless such as typing in a text editor or watching a youtube video. Also, I played and finish Bulletstorm on the computer without any issues.
I'm guessing that if it was overheating of some sort, I would see consistent failures during certain activities. But when it happened the first time, I ran some memory, CPU and GPU stress tests for longer periods of time (not hours, but tens of minutes) watching the temperature climbing and eventually stabilizing but not crashing the computer.
Here are the components:
I'm OK to replace any component ... only if I knew what it is.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
I'm looking for an advice with a crashing / restarting computer.
Few months back I bought and built a new computer. The problem is that it occasionally restarts itself. I use the computer about an hour or two every day every evening and little bit more over weekends. This occasional restarts happens about once a week, sometimes even less. So far, I think I've experienced four or five restarts. The main problem is that I'm not able to associate it with any particular activity.
To be more specific, it is really just a complete shutdown and restart, no blue screen. It looks like a short power issue, but I'm guessing that it's really the motherboard detecting some issue and shutting down to prevent more damage (or something like that). As I said above, I can't really tie it to any particular activity. I think in about half of the cases it happen when I played a computer game (Age of Empires Online to be precise which is annoying because there is no auto-save), but in the other cases in happened when doing something completely harmless such as typing in a text editor or watching a youtube video. Also, I played and finish Bulletstorm on the computer without any issues.
I'm guessing that if it was overheating of some sort, I would see consistent failures during certain activities. But when it happened the first time, I ran some memory, CPU and GPU stress tests for longer periods of time (not hours, but tens of minutes) watching the temperature climbing and eventually stabilizing but not crashing the computer.
Here are the components:
- Intel Core i7-2600K
- G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB DDR3 1600 (2 x 4GB)
- ASUS P8P67
- EVGA GeForce GTX 570
- SilverStone Fortress FT02B
- Antec EarthWatts EA750 (750W)
- Intel SSD 320 160GB
I'm OK to replace any component ... only if I knew what it is.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
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