Custom RIG shuts down...EVERYTHING STILL RUNS

[mdaniel1984]

I've had my custom RIG over a good two years I believe the issue has started once I installed Windows 10 below I have outlined the full issue.

The computer randomly shuts down could be 10min 5hrs 2days but the desktop will shutdown and my front LED light will start blinking. I have looked over the RIG the all fans are still running.. I'm unable to wake it up with any kind of keyboard command, I have been able to bring it back by turning the PSU switch off unplugging then plugging it back in.

I have the following hardware that I know off the top of my head
MSI Computer Corp. A88XM-E45 - Motherboard
AMD A10-Series APU A10-7850K - CPU
Thermaltake Case Urban Power Supply EATX Full Tower
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB
2 SD drives (1 as my main OS)
1 4TB drive

I have no Graphics Card just the built in one for the motherboard.

I'm at a lost I don't think it could be the mobo for the simple reason nothing would be running the CPU Fan and case fan and I don't believe it's the PSU since it's powering the fan

Please let me know what you think.

 

[greens]

Your PC is just going to sleep.

Turn off sleep in your power management settings and this will never happen again.

 

[mdaniel1984]

Your PC is just going to sleep.

Turn off sleep in your power management settings and this will never happen again.

But why is this going on at all times of the day I could be working for 2-3hrs then it shuts down or it could be up for 1-2 days then shuts down.... Isn't sleep mode designed to be a certain timed event?

 

[greens]

Windows 10 has a fairly large number of triggers.
But i find sleep annoying just as much as the next guy, and disable it on all my rigs. Disable it, we don't need to get into the details of why its misbehaving, its just not a great feature, so disable it!

If you disable it and it still does something funky then we know we have a problem.

 

[Tom Tancredi]

Your PC is just going to sleep.

Turn off sleep in your power management settings and this will never happen again.

Good guess but based on " randomly shuts down could be 10min 5hrs 2days" not the answer. Sleep mode is consistant as it is based on how many minutes since lst input.

Based on the numerous drives, and so on I would question the PSU, how much power is it (I see it listed but not Watts).
Would be my first look. Also while looking have you dusted out the PC? Have you checked for Temps? It can be overheating and also a big reason for it to be 'random'.

 

[greens]

Your PC is just going to sleep.

Turn off sleep in your power management settings and this will never happen again.

Good guess but based on " randomly shuts down could be 10min 5hrs 2days" not the answer. Sleep mode is consistant as it is based on how many minutes since lst input.

Based on the numerous drives, and so on I would question the PSU, how much power is it (I see it listed but not Watts).
Would be my first look. Also while looking have you dusted out the PC? Have you checked for Temps? It can be overheating and also a big reason for it to be 'random'.

Tom, Did you read his notes? he has a steady blinking power light... This is only caused by sleep.
I don't want to accuse the guy of pressing a sleep button on his computer, accidentally triggering the sleep shortcut on his keyboard, or not quite paying attention to just how long his PC is on before it happens.

A PSU causing this behavior? Dust causing a PC to go into sleep mode? I bet when he disables sleep it won't happen again.

 

[mdaniel1984]

After, turning off everything that deals with SleepMode/Hibernation anything along those lines didn't help.

I went to the point of installing a fresh copy of Windows 10 and it shut down on me half way through so it's def not any of those modes since the OS was cleared and a fresh copy was in the process of being installed.

This just started going on once I installed Windows 10, I was actually in the process of installed Windows 7 when it crashed on me...

This is a tough one because I don't have extra parts laying around to swap UGH!!!

 

[Tom Tancredi]

To reit

"Based on the numerous drives, and so on I would question the PSU, how much power is it (I see it listed but not Watts).
Would be my first look. Also while looking have you dusted out the PC? Have you checked for Temps? It can be overheating and also a big reason for it to be 'random'" and finally have you tried to wipe with DBAN the drive itself, see how that takes (if it fails to wipe / takes SEVERAL hours then the drive is failing) then install to one of the other drives?

Make sure you are ONLY installing to ONE drive the OS. If you have multiple drives you 'tried' then you can have legacy code mucking it up and screwed the BOOTLOAD (only one OS is supposed ot be on the computer per Microsoft). You would need to backup your data and WIPE the drives (as I said with DBAN) then move the data back to the drives as normal drives. Editing the BOOTLOAD on them will monkey them up and potentially (if you do it wrong) 'brick' the drive making the data permanently unaccessible (unless you want to pay $10K for Data Recovery specialists).

 

[mjslakeridge]

I am on Windows 8 Professional and use Sleep mode to put the computer to sleep at the end of every day. When it enters sleep mode, the fans on the GPU and Cpu cooler stop. So I don't think this is a Sleep mode issue, as you seem to have confirmed by disabling all aspects of it.