Hey guys I don't know if any of you gents remember me 
But you helped me pick and build my first rig, an I5 2500k which was until recently serving me proudly.
So my old PC had a few wars, with my cats spilling Baileys into it and onto the mobo, it chugged away still working for a year or so then just died and would only start for a few secs before constantly restarting. My Mums partner owning his own repair shop would be the guy to take it to so I thought. He told me that the mobo was dead and that the cpu was probably damaged too (Probably why am I paying this guy for probalies) But that he had the GPU running fine in another PC. He told me he could repair it for £390 or build me a new one for like £800, so I thanked him for having a look and took it home with me.
I bought a cheap new mobo that would fit my I5, and sure enough it sprang to life and I thought I had fixed my issues. But now and again it will just restart, no crash logs or blue screens of death, no reports for why that I can find upon rebooting, it's also like it's had a command to reset. Figured I had been lucky to get it running this far with the old CPU and bought a second hand i5 2500k off Ebay.. installed that. Only to get the same problems.
Any ideas guys, the last thing I want to do is start buying new parts only to be hit with the same issue, I'm supposed to be building my Girlfriend her first gaming PC, so the less money I spend on mine the more I have to put towards hers. Eh at least I could maybe build her an I5 2500k build seeing as I have two CPUS now blah
Sorry for the wall of text, and thank you In advance. If it helps the restarts seem to happen in games, but that's mainly the only thing I have my PC turned on for, I have seen it restart just from being idle at desktop too.
But you helped me pick and build my first rig, an I5 2500k which was until recently serving me proudly.So my old PC had a few wars, with my cats spilling Baileys into it and onto the mobo, it chugged away still working for a year or so then just died and would only start for a few secs before constantly restarting. My Mums partner owning his own repair shop would be the guy to take it to so I thought. He told me that the mobo was dead and that the cpu was probably damaged too (Probably why am I paying this guy for probalies) But that he had the GPU running fine in another PC. He told me he could repair it for £390 or build me a new one for like £800, so I thanked him for having a look and took it home with me.
I bought a cheap new mobo that would fit my I5, and sure enough it sprang to life and I thought I had fixed my issues. But now and again it will just restart, no crash logs or blue screens of death, no reports for why that I can find upon rebooting, it's also like it's had a command to reset. Figured I had been lucky to get it running this far with the old CPU and bought a second hand i5 2500k off Ebay.. installed that. Only to get the same problems.
Any ideas guys, the last thing I want to do is start buying new parts only to be hit with the same issue, I'm supposed to be building my Girlfriend her first gaming PC, so the less money I spend on mine the more I have to put towards hers. Eh at least I could maybe build her an I5 2500k build seeing as I have two CPUS now blah
Sorry for the wall of text, and thank you In advance. If it helps the restarts seem to happen in games, but that's mainly the only thing I have my PC turned on for, I have seen it restart just from being idle at desktop too.
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