I've had this computer in this setup for months without issue. Now it is suddenly restarting when I run games. The event viewer is spitting out the Critical Kernel Power, Event 41, Task 63 message, which I know is a general message for something broke and the computer shut down unexpectedly.
For others it seems to usually be related to the power supply, but when trying to isolate it there I got strange results that make no sense. First though, my specs. All the parts besides the GPU are about 5 years old:
Windows 10
Intel 2500k (with the overclocking now off)
GTX 960
8GB Ram
Corsair 850W PSU
So, like I said most people who have this problem end up tracing it to the PSU. I still have my old GTX 470, so I wiped my drivers and threw it in to confirm the issue. The 470 is a MUCH more power hungry card than the 960, so if the power supply was bad my thinking was it would show there too. I had different games running for hours over the course of multiple restarts and my system didn't restart once. I put the 960 back in hoping it was a driver issue, launched a game and the computer rebooted immediately.
At this point, it seemed clear it was the GPU, so I decided to run some benchmarks to see how it went. No matter what test I run or for how long the computer is fine, but is still crashing in actual games. Now i'm not so sure it's hardware at all. What sort of hardware issue shows up playing even a low requirement game, but is gone the moment I do heavy stress testing.
Anyone have any advice?
For others it seems to usually be related to the power supply, but when trying to isolate it there I got strange results that make no sense. First though, my specs. All the parts besides the GPU are about 5 years old:
Windows 10
Intel 2500k (with the overclocking now off)
GTX 960
8GB Ram
Corsair 850W PSU
So, like I said most people who have this problem end up tracing it to the PSU. I still have my old GTX 470, so I wiped my drivers and threw it in to confirm the issue. The 470 is a MUCH more power hungry card than the 960, so if the power supply was bad my thinking was it would show there too. I had different games running for hours over the course of multiple restarts and my system didn't restart once. I put the 960 back in hoping it was a driver issue, launched a game and the computer rebooted immediately.
At this point, it seemed clear it was the GPU, so I decided to run some benchmarks to see how it went. No matter what test I run or for how long the computer is fine, but is still crashing in actual games. Now i'm not so sure it's hardware at all. What sort of hardware issue shows up playing even a low requirement game, but is gone the moment I do heavy stress testing.
Anyone have any advice?
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