Hi, I am stumped and worried.
I received a PC from a friend who got an upgrade, and it was in quite a foul shape. Turns out that all I needed to do was clean it (For the first time in 5 years) and it was smooth as a babies hindside. I also added a Nvidia GTX 9800 into the machine as for the entire 5 years of my friend having the PC, she ran it on the internal graphics which took a visual toll on every day scrolling on the interwebs. (Small glitches in the screen)
Later on in the year (2016) I decided to install Godmode on Steam, and playing it for 10 minutes on the lowest graphic settings would make my computer reboot. I have all of my PC's set to show an error message whenever something like this happens yet I never got one. So I just stopped playing the game in fear I was going to cause irreversible damage.
Today, I was in a Skype call with some friends and my PC did it again! I had nothing running in the background and the computer shut down, and rebooted. Gave me the option of safe mode and repair. So I tried the repair start to see if it can catch anything that's wrong with my machine, offered me a system restore so I did that, and now its fine.
I know it seems like a happy ending here but I want to know if any hardware is on its way out before I kill this poor thing.
Update: Was just listening to some music and scrolling through the internet and my PC crashed again. No error message, just a horrible buzz coming through my speakers. Really don't know what's up and I'd really like some ideas guys, any ideas?
If any of you have any idea what the issue may be, any ideas are welcome.
I received a PC from a friend who got an upgrade, and it was in quite a foul shape. Turns out that all I needed to do was clean it (For the first time in 5 years) and it was smooth as a babies hindside. I also added a Nvidia GTX 9800 into the machine as for the entire 5 years of my friend having the PC, she ran it on the internal graphics which took a visual toll on every day scrolling on the interwebs. (Small glitches in the screen)
Later on in the year (2016) I decided to install Godmode on Steam, and playing it for 10 minutes on the lowest graphic settings would make my computer reboot. I have all of my PC's set to show an error message whenever something like this happens yet I never got one. So I just stopped playing the game in fear I was going to cause irreversible damage.
Today, I was in a Skype call with some friends and my PC did it again! I had nothing running in the background and the computer shut down, and rebooted. Gave me the option of safe mode and repair. So I tried the repair start to see if it can catch anything that's wrong with my machine, offered me a system restore so I did that, and now its fine.
I know it seems like a happy ending here but I want to know if any hardware is on its way out before I kill this poor thing.
Update: Was just listening to some music and scrolling through the internet and my PC crashed again. No error message, just a horrible buzz coming through my speakers. Really don't know what's up and I'd really like some ideas guys, any ideas?
If any of you have any idea what the issue may be, any ideas are welcome.
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