Hey squad, pickling my head here to work out what is wrong with this machine.
My old rig handed down to the daughter for light gaming, was a clean OS build etc and is always up to date from a driver/patch perspective.
Never missed a beat in it's long tenure with me and the only hardware difference since then is the PSU as I kept the original (EVGA loveliness). This now has a Cooler Master V series 550W Gold PSU.
Now, machine was fine for months. Never had an issue
Until it did :/
No matter what my daughter tried, the machine kept restarting. She has to resort to turning off the switch which nobody likes
I have done a bit of digging and diagnostics and have come up with nothing.
In fact, my main focus was on the OS, power settings, using SFC, restart on failure........I mean, i found settings that I didn't know about
but nothing made one bit of difference.
I then tried a live CD ( think it was Knoppix or something I had lying around ) and upon shutting down from that, it still started up again.
I am bamboozled team and would appreciate some direction.
The PSU seems to carry a 10 year warranty if indeed it is related to that.
Cheers in advance
HD
My old rig handed down to the daughter for light gaming, was a clean OS build etc and is always up to date from a driver/patch perspective.
Never missed a beat in it's long tenure with me and the only hardware difference since then is the PSU as I kept the original (EVGA loveliness). This now has a Cooler Master V series 550W Gold PSU.
Now, machine was fine for months. Never had an issue
Until it did :/
No matter what my daughter tried, the machine kept restarting. She has to resort to turning off the switch which nobody likes
I have done a bit of digging and diagnostics and have come up with nothing.
In fact, my main focus was on the OS, power settings, using SFC, restart on failure........I mean, i found settings that I didn't know about
but nothing made one bit of difference.I then tried a live CD ( think it was Knoppix or something I had lying around ) and upon shutting down from that, it still started up again.
I am bamboozled team and would appreciate some direction.
The PSU seems to carry a 10 year warranty if indeed it is related to that.
Cheers in advance
HD
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