I was woke up in the middle of the night to my computer repeatedly turning itself on and off a month or two ago. At the time of course I just turned it off and went back to sleep, concerned that I was was being haunted by some tech savvy ghost, possibly for ticking 'I confirm that I am 18' boxes before I was. But when I woke up in the morning and turned on my PC, the problem persisted. I assumed this could be a few issues; overheating, faulty motherboard, faulty PSU. Before doing any testing I thought my best option would be to give my computer an overdue clean out of everything, so that is what I did. I took absolutely everything apart, including the fans and the case, and cleaned any dust off of it all. When I put it all back together and turned the power on, it worked! And it did so for the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately this did not last as today the same thing has occurred.
Mid browsing, it flashed that there was an error with some application and then quickly turned off. I think the error occurred because of the fault though and not the other way around as the problem is clearly bigger than a simple faulty application. I wasn't doing anything intense, literally just had a few tabs open on Chrome. I turned it back on and I got to the dashboard where I was able to load Chrome, and then it crashed again. Now if I try to turn it on it is crashing before it even allows me to press 'Start Windows Normally'. I wanted to test if the CPU was overheating, which seems unlikely as it is crashing before it even has time to warm, but I don't have enough time on my computer before it crashes to do that now, unless there is some quick way through BIOS, but I thought I should consult you wizards on here first.
Any help or advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance.
Mid browsing, it flashed that there was an error with some application and then quickly turned off. I think the error occurred because of the fault though and not the other way around as the problem is clearly bigger than a simple faulty application. I wasn't doing anything intense, literally just had a few tabs open on Chrome. I turned it back on and I got to the dashboard where I was able to load Chrome, and then it crashed again. Now if I try to turn it on it is crashing before it even allows me to press 'Start Windows Normally'. I wanted to test if the CPU was overheating, which seems unlikely as it is crashing before it even has time to warm, but I don't have enough time on my computer before it crashes to do that now, unless there is some quick way through BIOS, but I thought I should consult you wizards on here first.
Any help or advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance.