- Mar 5, 2003
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So yeah, my PC is getting old (5 years) but I'd rather wait to replace it, or at least hand it down to my kids it here is the rub:
Over the last few days it started rebooting randomly. No bluescreen, just reboot (and automatically reboot is off in Windows)
Happens even when the PC is idle, so not tied to high power usage. It happened the day after Windows 11 applied an update, so I thought it might be related, it keep on reading.
I updated drivers and even bios (yikes!), no dice. I e eventually booted a Linux distro from a USB drive but it rebooted while idle within a hour or two, so I think that exonerate Windows.
Visual inspection, everything appears well seated, filters are good, fans running (system monitor in Windows doesn't show overheating).
Overclocking off in the bios.
Ran memtest and passed. I'm guessing it'll reboot eventually but not due to memory errors.
I would usually suspect the power supply but it doesn't seem related to drawing more power. I may still buy a new supply and swap it, it if it's not it I'm out the price of a supply.
It feels like the MB is the most likely culprit. I didn't see any swollen caps but probably need to take a second look. Any advice on how to test the MB?
What would be an equivalent/compatible MB? Seems like they're used and expensive, what could be an affordable MB to rehouse my Ryzen 5 and DDR4, or should I give up and buy everything new?
One test I haven't done is to remove the graphic card and use only the integrated graphics, so I should do that in case it's the graphics card gone bad.
So yeah, my PC is getting old (5 years) but I'd rather wait to replace it, or at least hand it down to my kids it here is the rub:
Over the last few days it started rebooting randomly. No bluescreen, just reboot (and automatically reboot is off in Windows)
Happens even when the PC is idle, so not tied to high power usage. It happened the day after Windows 11 applied an update, so I thought it might be related, it keep on reading.
I updated drivers and even bios (yikes!), no dice. I e eventually booted a Linux distro from a USB drive but it rebooted while idle within a hour or two, so I think that exonerate Windows.
Visual inspection, everything appears well seated, filters are good, fans running (system monitor in Windows doesn't show overheating).
Overclocking off in the bios.
Ran memtest and passed. I'm guessing it'll reboot eventually but not due to memory errors.
I would usually suspect the power supply but it doesn't seem related to drawing more power. I may still buy a new supply and swap it, it if it's not it I'm out the price of a supply.
It feels like the MB is the most likely culprit. I didn't see any swollen caps but probably need to take a second look. Any advice on how to test the MB?
What would be an equivalent/compatible MB? Seems like they're used and expensive, what could be an affordable MB to rehouse my Ryzen 5 and DDR4, or should I give up and buy everything new?
One test I haven't done is to remove the graphic card and use only the integrated graphics, so I should do that in case it's the graphics card gone bad.