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Hey guys,
Long time reader and there are so many gurus here that I'm hoping someone might be able to help with an issue I'm having with my PC.
I have a pretty awesome gaming rig that I love and am a fairly savvy enthusiast but it has me stumped. My system consists of a Giga Z68XP-UD3, i7 3770k with an Intel closed-loop water cooler, 16GB GSkill DDR3 1866mhz, a Thermaltake Toughpower 850w Gold PSU, a Giga 980Ti Xtreme, a 128GB Sata SSD boot drive, 2 X 2TB Seagate storage drives with one of them (the one games are installed on) using a 64GB SSD as an Intel Rapid Storage Technology cache drive, all enclosed in a white Corsair 760T, and an Acer CB280HK 4K monitor. I’m providing as much detail as I can to assist in the troubleshooting! (Haven't updated my sig for a while by the way)
Recently, at very intermittent times, the system will just, without any warning, turn itself off. Most often it’s while playing a game, but it has happened while browsing the web and on the desktop. It’s so random that I cannot work out where the problem lies. I have looked in Windows reliability history which just shows the computer was shut down incorrectly. I also changed the Startup and Recovery setting where on system failure the PC should not automatically shutdown, hoping for a blue screen to see an error message. The system still just turns off randomly and without warning. Plus, I can’t find the dump file it’s supposed to create.
I have also tried using the second PCI-E slot for my GPU, running with peripherals removed, removing RAM sticks, but it still occurs. I haven’t tried using the integrated graphics yet (can’t bring myself to!), but I suppose I should? The GPU is only about 9 months old – I know problems can still happen though.
It’s very intermittent and I have been getting by, but I would like to know where the problem is so that if I upgrade my motherboard, RAM, and CPU combo, it won’t still happen! I don’t think it’s the PSU because it’s only a couple of years old, gold rated and pretty good quality. I was, however, running 2 X R9 290s on it for a while which may have pushed it to limits, but it’s now on a much more efficient single 980Ti, and the system still boots fine and so on. So I’m personally thinking it’s the motherboard as it’s the oldest component, and it was fairly budget to start with. But it’s so random that I don’t know if it’s a corrupt sector, RAM issue, processor problem, argh! I’m looking at upgrading my motherboard, RAM and CPU anyway but again, I’d like to not have the problem occur again if I do.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! Please let me know if you need any more info and I will happily provide it. I’m sure there’s more I probably need to troubleshoot and provide.
I know it's hard so I'm not expecting much, just trying my luck. Thanks guys.
Adrian
Long time reader and there are so many gurus here that I'm hoping someone might be able to help with an issue I'm having with my PC.
I have a pretty awesome gaming rig that I love and am a fairly savvy enthusiast but it has me stumped. My system consists of a Giga Z68XP-UD3, i7 3770k with an Intel closed-loop water cooler, 16GB GSkill DDR3 1866mhz, a Thermaltake Toughpower 850w Gold PSU, a Giga 980Ti Xtreme, a 128GB Sata SSD boot drive, 2 X 2TB Seagate storage drives with one of them (the one games are installed on) using a 64GB SSD as an Intel Rapid Storage Technology cache drive, all enclosed in a white Corsair 760T, and an Acer CB280HK 4K monitor. I’m providing as much detail as I can to assist in the troubleshooting! (Haven't updated my sig for a while by the way)
Recently, at very intermittent times, the system will just, without any warning, turn itself off. Most often it’s while playing a game, but it has happened while browsing the web and on the desktop. It’s so random that I cannot work out where the problem lies. I have looked in Windows reliability history which just shows the computer was shut down incorrectly. I also changed the Startup and Recovery setting where on system failure the PC should not automatically shutdown, hoping for a blue screen to see an error message. The system still just turns off randomly and without warning. Plus, I can’t find the dump file it’s supposed to create.
I have also tried using the second PCI-E slot for my GPU, running with peripherals removed, removing RAM sticks, but it still occurs. I haven’t tried using the integrated graphics yet (can’t bring myself to!), but I suppose I should? The GPU is only about 9 months old – I know problems can still happen though.
It’s very intermittent and I have been getting by, but I would like to know where the problem is so that if I upgrade my motherboard, RAM, and CPU combo, it won’t still happen! I don’t think it’s the PSU because it’s only a couple of years old, gold rated and pretty good quality. I was, however, running 2 X R9 290s on it for a while which may have pushed it to limits, but it’s now on a much more efficient single 980Ti, and the system still boots fine and so on. So I’m personally thinking it’s the motherboard as it’s the oldest component, and it was fairly budget to start with. But it’s so random that I don’t know if it’s a corrupt sector, RAM issue, processor problem, argh! I’m looking at upgrading my motherboard, RAM and CPU anyway but again, I’d like to not have the problem occur again if I do.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! Please let me know if you need any more info and I will happily provide it. I’m sure there’s more I probably need to troubleshoot and provide.
I know it's hard so I'm not expecting much, just trying my luck. Thanks guys.
Adrian