Ok so please read everything carefully as this is quite a long and tedious journey but hopefully everything I say here may offer some clues...
So a couple weeks ago I decided to upgrade my motherboard because my old one had some broken slots that wouldn't allow for more than 8 gigs of RAM ( I will post specs below) so anyway since then I've been having this problem with my computer where it just randomly restarts, it could be 5 hours into playing a game or it could be 10 minutes, it just restarts. So eventually after trying various fixes I got tired of it and took it to a computer shop. I had it there for three days and was told that all my hardware was fine and compatible and the software was good as well. The strangest thing is, it didn't restart once while it was under their care. They ran movies on it all night, they ran games on it for several hours, they ran benchmarks etc. It didn't restart once and that's the biggest point. They suggested running it without anything but a keyboard and mouse plugged in because that worked for them, but besides that I was told that maybe it was my outlet (but that wasn't the case because it only started after installing the new motherboard. So anyway I replaced the power strip and it still restarted. I think I've narrowed it down to headphones that cause the problem....
Now let me go over everything I've tried to fix this so we don't get any repeats and I'll post my specs
Solutions:
New psu
Removing ram
Booting on safe mode
Disabling auto restart
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Those are most of the solutions I've tried, and before I post my specs, all hardware is compatible and fine
CPU: AMD FX 8320
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-880GM-usb3
Ram: 16 gigs mixture of pny and Kingston
Graphics card: EVGA gtx 1050 ti mini
Like I said I'm pretty sure it's headphone related so any ways to fix this would be very nice! Thanks!
So a couple weeks ago I decided to upgrade my motherboard because my old one had some broken slots that wouldn't allow for more than 8 gigs of RAM ( I will post specs below) so anyway since then I've been having this problem with my computer where it just randomly restarts, it could be 5 hours into playing a game or it could be 10 minutes, it just restarts. So eventually after trying various fixes I got tired of it and took it to a computer shop. I had it there for three days and was told that all my hardware was fine and compatible and the software was good as well. The strangest thing is, it didn't restart once while it was under their care. They ran movies on it all night, they ran games on it for several hours, they ran benchmarks etc. It didn't restart once and that's the biggest point. They suggested running it without anything but a keyboard and mouse plugged in because that worked for them, but besides that I was told that maybe it was my outlet (but that wasn't the case because it only started after installing the new motherboard. So anyway I replaced the power strip and it still restarted. I think I've narrowed it down to headphones that cause the problem....
Now let me go over everything I've tried to fix this so we don't get any repeats and I'll post my specs
Solutions:
New psu
Removing ram
Booting on safe mode
Disabling auto restart
_-----------------------
Those are most of the solutions I've tried, and before I post my specs, all hardware is compatible and fine
CPU: AMD FX 8320
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-880GM-usb3
Ram: 16 gigs mixture of pny and Kingston
Graphics card: EVGA gtx 1050 ti mini
Like I said I'm pretty sure it's headphone related so any ways to fix this would be very nice! Thanks!