PC powering off while playing Fortnite

mushtafa

mushtafa

mushtafa

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Strange one this. PC has been stable for at least the last 6 months. I last played games during xmas without fault.

My Mrs wanted to play Fortnite, so installed it for her. It shut down on her after around an hour. I told her to leave it until I finished work.

I checked event viewer, it's full of errors, warnings, and a couple of criticals. I can't make sense of it.

I loaded it up, checked temps etc, all good. It randomly done it again in front of me. Just complete power off. Power switch on mobo still lit, but unable to power back on. Had to switch off PSU for a few seconds. Rebooted fine, but logged me into a blank user and said there was an error logging in. (I only use a local account). Switched user and all was fine.

It happened again after.

Any ideas? I was thinking the PSU was giving up, but it doesn't explain the random user?
 
It's a 95w TDP chip @ stock - so with that OC it may well be to big a draw.

If you turn down all the settings you can dies it exhibit the same behavior?

Also that's about 8 years old now - Xeons are great for lifetime, but with a 25% OC that maybe greatly reduced...
 
It did it again last night. Weird thing is, it just turns off, no blue screens, no freezes, no nothing.

I rebooted after the power down, Windows started to configure updates... Surely Windows wouldn't force a sudden power off?

I'll run a stress test later
 
I had this not that long ago, it turned out to be the SSD dying. The weirder part was it was reporting 99% health still, but after a new one was installed there were no more random crashes.
 
Glad you figured it out. My 480gb SSD died yesterday too but Sandisk are replacing it with a 500gb Sandisk Ultra 3D. So i'm happy. I didn't lose any important data either as it just games on that drive.
 
I think I've sussed it. Checked the dust filter for the PSU, it looked like a fur coat! All cleaned and has ran for almost 2 hours without fault.
 
mushtafa said:
I think I've sussed it. Checked the dust filter for the PSU, it looked like a fur coat! All cleaned and has ran for almost 2 hours without fault.
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I have an annual ceremony at my parents with my PC, PS4 and Dyson where I strategically blast out bits of fur from my various appliances, works a treat! (Though obviously need to be a bit careful with the higher compressed air heh).
 
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