Crysis 3 shutdown?

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So let me describe the situation a bit. About a month ago, my father and I were playing around with my PC. We wanted to hookup a fan on my case that had never been plugged in and he had an "Adapter" to plug it into the power supply. Us being stupid (We are a lot smarter than this) plug it into my PSU and we short out the MB. Great... So for Xmas he orders me a new MB Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC, new cpu i7 4790k, and a new gpu Sapphire amd radeon r9 270x 4GB OC version. Great! We install everything and finally get the PC up and running in about two days. We keep getting BSOD's. MEMORY MANAGEMENT. So we re-seat RAM and everything is all dandy. We decide to upgrade to windows 8.1 64-bit. Now the PC runs FLAWLESSLY. accept for when playing games. Crysis 3 I get through the entire cut scene when starting a new campaign perfectly then as soon as the level loads my pc INSTANTLY shuts off. Im not talking a sytem shut down. Im talking like someone pulled the plug. Battlefield 4 runs smooth 90% of them time yet today it started doing the same thing.

My temps are perfectly fine.

CPU Temp: 20-70 degrees C
GPU temp: Max out at 55 degrees C

So what could be doing this? Ive uninstalled both games numerous times yet it does the same thing. All my drivers are up to date.

Another thing to note is that when this happens, the pc boots up again by itself without me pusing the power button. Occasionally during this, My BIOS screen will popup and say "BOOT FAILURE. INCOMPATIBLE SETTINGS" or something along those lines. Please help!


UPDATE: I let my pc boot just by hitting the on button and while it was on the windows 8 user login screen, it shut off randomly as well. Earlier today, it also shutdown while running iTunes. Im hopeless here guys. Please help!


 
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What you DIDN'T do, or at least didn't mention, and going strictly by your symptoms would be the very first thing I'd look at, is the PSU.

If you shorted the motherboard by connecting a fan to one of the four pin molex plugs coming from the PSU, you 100% had to have damaged the PSU as well, or at the very least, had an excessive current draw through it which has to cause some kind of damage. Assuming you probably had an OEM power supply to start with since it sounds like you had a stock rig in the beginning, I'd almost guarantee you had a cheap OEM unit. Now that you have a GOOD motherboard, a DECENT GPU and a very good CPU, you need an equally good PSU.

What is the brand and model number of your power supply? Did you and your father...


ya see id consider that, but its a brand new CPU plus all cores are working
 
What you DIDN'T do, or at least didn't mention, and going strictly by your symptoms would be the very first thing I'd look at, is the PSU.

If you shorted the motherboard by connecting a fan to one of the four pin molex plugs coming from the PSU, you 100% had to have damaged the PSU as well, or at the very least, had an excessive current draw through it which has to cause some kind of damage. Assuming you probably had an OEM power supply to start with since it sounds like you had a stock rig in the beginning, I'd almost guarantee you had a cheap OEM unit. Now that you have a GOOD motherboard, a DECENT GPU and a very good CPU, you need an equally good PSU.

What is the brand and model number of your power supply? Did you and your father realize that the PSU is THE most important hardware component in the entire system? EVERY single piece of hardware inside your case relies on the power supply and the PSU is the ONLY component that can take out everything, all at once, if there is a catastrophic failure.

For the level of components in your build, and for any decent rig really, especially if you have a mid to high end gaming card, you NEED to have a Tier 2B or higher power supply installed. Chances are good that when the game loads up the GPU, it's the PSU that's taking a shit.

Find and purchase a power supply that is listed at a position of Tier 2B, Tier 2A or Tier 1, on the following list:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1804779/power-supply-unit-tier-list.html



If you DID already replace the PSU, or already had a good one (Which may not matter after shorting it out), what is the brand and model number of that unit?
 
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We did purchase a new PSU. It is a Corsair HX850. Its a pretty decent PSU. The ONLY thing we have not replaced are my HDDs. The one with Windows 8 on it is about 6 years old so it could be crapping out, but I really don't think so.
 
This is unbelievable. I have had this issue for like 2 weeks and in 10 seconds I solve a HUGE issue. Page filing for some reason was not enabled! I enabled it and it no longer shuts off. I cant believe this. Thanks for the help short notice though!
 
Also, to check the drives, just to be safe, I'd run Seatools for windows on them all. Run the Short DST and the long generic. The long generic will take quite a while depending on the size of the drive, so be patient. If there is an issue, this will find it. And brand doesn't matter. It works on them all.

http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/seatools-win-master/


It's very doubtful, though possible I guess, that the paging file would have ANY effect on the system prior to windows having FULLY booted into the desktop. RAM, PSUs and HDDs are the likely culprits for pre-boot problems. Occasionally the motherboard and even more rarely the CPU. In that order.