Computer Turns Off When Not Playing Games But Doesn't When I Am

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TomSogden

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I've had this problem for over 8 months now and I've never done anything about it because nobody else seems to have this problem, but when im just watching youtube videos or moving files, my computer will randomly shut down after a short while, but when im playing games (Specifically GTA 5) It will stay on forever, it's a very weird problem but when I look in the recent events it says "Unexpected Shutdown" at the time it turned itself off, it doesn't display a shutting down screen either, it's like pulling the plug out pretty much.
Thank you for anyone who helps
 
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TomSogden,

This is a common subject/post that is posted on this forum almost minute by minute.
However, it's just worded differently.

When playing games or video editing, your PC will draw a lot of resources for you.
You problem can be anything from corrupted registry to bad video card.

My first advise.. do a full clean, take your PC apart dust, and clean out the nasty & re-thermal paste processor.
 
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I've done a full clean before, nothing changed, and ive changed my thermal paste too and nothing changed, reinstalled OS multiple times, no change.
 
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will try this now and will get back to you,
Specs are:
AMD 8320 w/ stock cooler
XFX AMD R9 270x
XFX 550 watt PSU
I have 2 other fans in my case and there is 2 on the gpu.
Gigabyte 970A-UD3P
UPDATE: I ran the sfc and dism tests on command prompt as administrator and it said it fixed the corruption but its still turning itself off unless i have GTA open, please help if you can?
 
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I've used driverbooster to install drivers and I'm running windows 8.1, have tried updating to windows 10 but it turns off before it installs

 
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CPUSCORE : 7.9
D3DSCORE : 8.4
DISKSCORE : 5.8
GRAPHICS SCORE : 8.4
MEMORYSCORE : 7.9
these are the results from doing winsat prepop, the event logs just say "Critical: The system had rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed or lost peer unexpectedly." There is never any sign of crashing or the computer slowing down before it turns off and it works just fine up until it does turn off.
 
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well...then we have to take a serial approach here...component by component...
as ur disk score is lowest, tht shd be a gud place to start with...
download harddisksentinnel and check the health and smart data...
then go on to the ram and run memtest on each stick separately, interchanging the slots and sticks...
 
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Done the hard disk sentinel and it says my health rating is 86% and smart data is all good as far as I can see, will do the memtest now
 
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