Computer restarting after ~1hour

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Hi there

This morning when I went to go onto my computer, the screen was stuck on 'loading operating system'. After waiting several minutes nothing else happened. So I tried to restart it a couple of times to no avail.

I had a quick squint at google and came across several solutions to similar problems before. First thing was to boot up the cd drive with the windows start up disc and go into repair mode. I tried to enter commands 'bootrec /fixmbr' and 'bootrec /fixboot'.
However after trying to restart nothing happened.
I tried to repair windows, and at first I was getting a message asking if I had installed any devices recently such as a camera, then to remove it first, restart and try again. But I haven't had anything installed recently.

I went into BIOS and I had received a message stating something along the lines of overclocking failed, enter system to re configure system. Only problem is I never had my system overclocked.
So I went through some options, and clicked restore to default to each one that allowed me to. I then entered the repair mode of windows disc again, and tried to repair windows. It continued to do so, but at the end said it couldn't fix any problems.

Tried restarting the computer, and this time it loaded straight into windows as normal. Now when I get into windows, it runs anything fine for roughly an hour, before it suddenly slows right down and crashes within seconds. It's crashed 4 times today, and each time has lasted roughly an hour. Twice it got stuck on the loading operating system window. But when it got stuck on that page, I did the same thing in the BIOS setup, and restored what I could to default, and it seemed work.
I have my windows installed on my SSD.


Quick rundown of what I have:-

Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge)
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz
Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive

If you need to know anything else, just ask.

Hopefully someone can give me a solution.

Cheers
 
you might need to update the m4's firmware to the latest one,ive seen a few folks have similar issues until they updated the fw
 
if that doesn't fix it id next look at your memory voltage/settings

either enable x.m.p/profile 1 or manually set the speed/timings and dram voltage to what its rated at,usually 1.55v
 
Computer has not crashed since updating firmware last night.
Seems to be the solution, cheers :)
 
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