My computer shuts off ONLY when I play a game. Here are my specs, do I need to replace one of them?

[HeroponLuigi]

I just installed a Crucial BX100 500GB SSD. I originally had an old HDD and I was able to play games on it. I cloned my HDD into this SSD, ran the free upgrade, and then did windows reset for a "clean" install.The strange thing is that it only shuts off like 5 to 10 minutes into a game. I actually used it for like 6 hours straight yesterday and even used Blender 3D for the majority of that time without any problems. I opened up steam after I was done with Blender, ran the Hunter which is a pretty old game, and 10 minutes in it just shut off. If I reconnect the HDD I can play games just fine, so the SSD is definitely the issue. The Only differences between the two is that one is an HDD while the other is an SSD, and that the HDD is running Win7 while the SSD is running Win10. I'm thinking maybe the power supply, but from my understanding SSD's need less power than HDD's

OS -Microsoft Windows 10 (free upgrade from 7)

MOBO - GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 6 x SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

PSU- Rosewill RG630-S12 – Green Series 630-Watt Active PFC Power Supply Unit – Continuous @ 104 Deg. F (40C), 80 PLUS

RAM- G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL9D-8GBSR

GPU- MSI Radeon HD 7850 DirectX 11 R7850 Twin Frozr 2GD5/OC 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX

CPU- AMD FX-8320 Vishera 8-Core 3.5 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W FD8320FRHKBOX Desktop Processor

Update: So I tried playing Don't Starve on the SSD and it worked fine. I played for like 30 mins which is more than I've ever ben able to do. I then played the hunter on low settings for like 20 minutes and it also worked fine. So the shut off only seems to happen when the game is a little more graphics intensive. I can run the hunter at max settings when using the HDD though, so it's not my graphics card. any ideas?

 

[Bossyfins]

I would think your PSU.

 

[HeroponLuigi]

Any other suggestions? I don't want to buy a second power supply unless it's absolutely the reason

 

[HeroponLuigi]

bump

 

[S8ANisF8AL]

If it's not the power supply (which I don't believe it is since you can run everything on your HDD just fine), and it only shuts off when you're running your SSD...then my best assumption would be it's a faulty SSD. Have you checked your event logs to see what error occured?

 

[HeroponLuigi]

If it's not the power supply (which I don't believe it is since you can run everything on your HDD just fine), and it only shuts off when you're running your SSD...then my best assumption would be it's a faulty SSD. Have you checked your event logs to see what error occured?

This is the second SSD though. I don't think both of them are faulty. Also the fat that I can game on the SSD on low settings says to me that it can play games. However, in case it is I'll check the error logs (not sure how to do that)

 

[S8ANisF8AL]

If it's not the power supply (which I don't believe it is since you can run everything on your HDD just fine), and it only shuts off when you're running your SSD...then my best assumption would be it's a faulty SSD. Have you checked your event logs to see what error occured?

This is the second SSD though. I don't think both of them are faulty. Also the fat that I can game on the SSD on low settings says to me that it can play games. However, in case it is I'll check the error logs (not sure how to do that)

Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer > System

It'll show a list of all activity logs that the system has noted. If you roughly know the time and date of the last shutdown that'll help. Usually those types of logs will be denoted with "Error".