- Jan 27, 2014
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Hi. For the last couple months, my computer has been acting up. More and more often, whenever I put it to sleep, when I hit a key to wake it, it turns on for a second or two, crashes, starts up again for maybe one second, crashes, does this one or two times more, then boots up for real. During this whole process, the screen remains black. Whenever I check the event viewer or reliability utility, all it says was that the computer shut down unexpectedly/incorrectly at some point during the time it was asleep (usually after an hour or so of sleeping, and long before I try to wake it). Also, even though the logs said it had shut down during sleep, it still had the flashing power light, indicating it was asleep, not off, and pressing the keyboard tries to wake it.
Usually, after it does this weird restart thing, the computer runs fine, no problems. I'd started simply shutting down the computer, instead of putting it to sleep, and it usually worked, but it did occasionally repeat the weird start-up issue, anyway. Then one boot-up, a splash of multicolored static appeared over part of the screen, for no apparent reason, only for a second.
Then one day during regular use, it simply turned off, the exact same way it would happen if there was a power outage. No warning, no glitches, errors, or freezing beforehand, etc.
At this point, I'd already run a bunch of the windows harddrive tests, I'd already run memtest 86 a little time before the issues had started, it all came up fine.
A bunch of the results I'd gotten from googling the issue pointed at PSU failure, so I replaced it (and cleaning out the whole case with a compressed air can from a PC store). Issues still occuring.
The crash happened again, this time only about an hour during web surfing, nothing intensive. When I rebooted the splash of olor happened again, and there was just another unexpected shutdown error. Then ten minutes later, another crash. I haven't turned it back on since, considering the problem seems to be getting worse, FAST.
Also, I noticed that every once in a rare while, a screen would appear during boot saying that over clocking had failed. I have not overclocked my PC at all, and figured it must be an error thrown because of the random shutdowns.
My specs:
I7-4770k
Gtx-780
Several WD drives, and an SSD
Brand new corsair 750x PSU
Sabertooth z87 Mobo
Stock CPU cooler
Had this PC for years, no major problems until this. I'd REALLY appreciate help with this, I need this PC for a side-job, and I'm on it most time that I'm not at my main job...
Thanks a bunch!
Usually, after it does this weird restart thing, the computer runs fine, no problems. I'd started simply shutting down the computer, instead of putting it to sleep, and it usually worked, but it did occasionally repeat the weird start-up issue, anyway. Then one boot-up, a splash of multicolored static appeared over part of the screen, for no apparent reason, only for a second.
Then one day during regular use, it simply turned off, the exact same way it would happen if there was a power outage. No warning, no glitches, errors, or freezing beforehand, etc.
At this point, I'd already run a bunch of the windows harddrive tests, I'd already run memtest 86 a little time before the issues had started, it all came up fine.
A bunch of the results I'd gotten from googling the issue pointed at PSU failure, so I replaced it (and cleaning out the whole case with a compressed air can from a PC store). Issues still occuring.
The crash happened again, this time only about an hour during web surfing, nothing intensive. When I rebooted the splash of olor happened again, and there was just another unexpected shutdown error. Then ten minutes later, another crash. I haven't turned it back on since, considering the problem seems to be getting worse, FAST.
Also, I noticed that every once in a rare while, a screen would appear during boot saying that over clocking had failed. I have not overclocked my PC at all, and figured it must be an error thrown because of the random shutdowns.
My specs:
I7-4770k
Gtx-780
Several WD drives, and an SSD
Brand new corsair 750x PSU
Sabertooth z87 Mobo
Stock CPU cooler
Had this PC for years, no major problems until this. I'd REALLY appreciate help with this, I need this PC for a side-job, and I'm on it most time that I'm not at my main job...
Thanks a bunch!
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