Is overclocking causing problems

[Cheal]

Hi, hope this is in the right place, please feel free to move if not.

I have been given a pc for my 12-year-old son. It was a home build by someone who I believe would have overclocked it.

The specs I can see are

case - Antec Twelve Hundred V3

Windows 10 64bit

Motherboard - P8P67 PRO

BIOS - TV278MS.102

CPU I5-2500K @3.3GHz

Graphics card - AMD Radeon R9200/H7900 series (2 of these but one taken out) (MSI TWIN FROZR Lightning)

Hard drives sata 1x300GB 1x2000GB (Windows 10 on the smaller 300GB drive).


I think the system was built about 4 years ago, but has not been turned on for about 2 years.

I was given it with the hard drive wiped so I installed Windows 10 on it.

There was 2 of the graphics cards which were bridged, but one was not lighting up so I assume is broken and I have removed.


The problem I am having is that it has randomly turned itself off a few times, and the only way I have been able to get it back on is by turning the power supply off for a few minutes.

I have been told that it could be because it is overclocked. If so how do I find out what is causing the problem.

 

[Relentless81]

Go into BIOS save a profile with current settings, load defaults and boot. Then see if it switches off under any load.

 

[Cheal]

Thanks for the quick reply, I will do that later (he is playing a game on it now). I am assuming there will be an easy method to save the profile when I view the bios.

It is only turning off a few times and appears random, when you say under any load is there a simple way of doing this so I can test?

 

[Relentless81]

Yeah load = gaming so when your lad is gaming on it, it is under load. Or you could stress test it with Aida64 or Realbench etc. Personally I would just game on it as that sounds like what its going to be used for.