PC restarting when a playing game.

SimonC

SimonC

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I posted this other day in the PSU section.
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/wonky-psu.18776947/

I currently have the 650w and RX480 in an old PC, ran realbench, 3dmark and played scrap mechanic last night for a couple of hours, all completely fine.

I now have the older 430w psu in my newer PC and am running memtest, although an hour in and no errors.

I'm going to tolerate the wonderful FPS using the intel graphics, play some games and see what happens.

Anyone any ideas what it could be?
 
I'm certainly not PC expert, but the CPU never goes above 65c and the GPU 75c, HWmonitor shows a bunch of other temps but they're not massively different over cold boot temps.

I have read that you can turn off the surge protection, but that just seems like a wallpaper over a cracked wall type of thing to me.

Been reading the asus forum and looks like the newest bios is good one, I've read people having problems with previous releases so will upgrade and see.


Also it's just dawned on me that the windows creators update came out and installed the day before/same day as I started having problems........... I'll put the PSU and GPU back in the newer pc and roll back to a previous windows build. It better not be that I'd look like a complete moron. :p
 
I have 3 intakes, plus 1 more blowing straight up at the GPU and 3 exhaust, the intakes are set to quite high RPM, so I don't think its a heat issue, but will certainly try without the side on.

There is a bios update, I'll do that after I've put the GPU and PSU back in.
Actually I'll refit the parts and see if it restarts again, also want to check out different video drivers.
 
ExoMale said:
your power supply is not putting out enough power, you will likely need another psu of 650w for testing as the 430 might not cut it either, id also reseat the graphics card or take it out all together and either use onboard if it has it or get a cheap graphics card and test your 650w again as well as the 430.
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Yer I tried the 430w with the GPUbut after the screen going black and few times I put it down to the old PSU not being powerful enough so took out the GPU, it all ran fine then.
I put the GPU and 650w PSU in an older pc and that ran fine also.

laddy said:
Any joy?
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I only put the PSU and GPU back in pretty late last night, it was on for an hour playing a game and it was fine.
Both sides of the case were off, I need to refit a fan and tidy up the cabling and see what happens.

Maybe it was just a loose connection after all.
 
Three fans at the front for intake, two top and one rear for exhaust.

Yer Exo, two entirely different PC's. The older one is a i3 530 8gb memory, h55 motherboard.

It's just restarted again after being fine for a couple of hours today, once restarted as soon as I load the game it restarts again.
Then I got no picture on the monitor, even though the XFX was lit up as well as a blue LED indicating power. I had to plug it into the on board hdmi, device manager of course not showing the RX480 being used.

So turned it off, mains power cable out, took the card out and put it back in again, turned it and I thought I heard a pop, so quickly turned it off..

Put the GPU into the older I3 PC, the XFX logo lights up for a second, then goes off that happens with both the 650w psu and 430w.

So I guess the GPU has finally given up.
 
I've tried the card in different slots yes, but I don't have a spare card to try.

But to me if the same GPU doesn't work, (no video out at all from the moment I turn the pc on) in two completely separate machines then it has to be the card?
 
Just to update.

I received a reply from XFX saying that they too they card is faulty, so I've returned it to where I bought it for a refund.

Think I'll replace it with a 1070.
 
I can't remember exactly what version I was using originally, pretty sure it was something like 16.1?
I was definitely using version 16.something since new and it was working great .
Ended up on 17.3.3 but tried all versions in between.
 
So after returning the RX480 I was just using the intel HD graphics for a while.
I then got an GTX 970 off here the other day and the PC has just restarted again while gaming....

Not that I used it a great deal with the intel graphics 20/30 fps but it's been solid and no problems since removing the rx480.

So now I guess, it's either PSU and mobo?

I was hoping that this was all done with. ffs.
 
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