Hey, basically the problem started about 3 months ago, when my pc restarted after hours of playing WoW. The pc just shuts off asif vie pulled out the plug and then starts up again. The first time it happened, it only happened once. But now it restarts after about 5 minutes of playing wow. Its not just wow either, its done it with Skyrim, Minecraft and more recently when watching youtube videos and just browsing files on my desktop.
So i originally thought this to be a temperature issue, but the cpu and gpu never reached temperatures higher than 65 degrees, according to CPUID HWmonitor and Catalyst Control Centre. All my drivers are up to date (updated them by using the function in device manager to search online, not sure how reliable it is. But i manually updated my Graphics card and bios). Everything is plugged into the PSU correctly, all fans are running fine, the computer has no dust whatsoever. There is no visible motherboard damage etc. Everything seems to be running smoothly. I have ran Virus scans and RAM Checks and they came up free of any issues. I aslo removed all the RAM and tested each stick individually, still crashed when playing the game for 1 minute roughly.
From what ive seen in forums ive narrowed it down to a faulty PSU, RAM or motherboard but im new to PCs so thats a guess at the most. One thing to note is when i upgraded my graphics card from the stock one, i had to get a new PSU, but before i got the new graphics card I didn't use the Pc much so I never had it crash on me.
My pc specs are:
Dell inspiron 560
Pentium Dual-core CPU E5500 @ 2.80GHZ
6G of Kingston DDR3 RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5770
Alpine 650W PSU
Thanks alot for reading, and please comment with any suggestions or help!
So i originally thought this to be a temperature issue, but the cpu and gpu never reached temperatures higher than 65 degrees, according to CPUID HWmonitor and Catalyst Control Centre. All my drivers are up to date (updated them by using the function in device manager to search online, not sure how reliable it is. But i manually updated my Graphics card and bios). Everything is plugged into the PSU correctly, all fans are running fine, the computer has no dust whatsoever. There is no visible motherboard damage etc. Everything seems to be running smoothly. I have ran Virus scans and RAM Checks and they came up free of any issues. I aslo removed all the RAM and tested each stick individually, still crashed when playing the game for 1 minute roughly.
From what ive seen in forums ive narrowed it down to a faulty PSU, RAM or motherboard but im new to PCs so thats a guess at the most. One thing to note is when i upgraded my graphics card from the stock one, i had to get a new PSU, but before i got the new graphics card I didn't use the Pc much so I never had it crash on me.
My pc specs are:
Dell inspiron 560
Pentium Dual-core CPU E5500 @ 2.80GHZ
6G of Kingston DDR3 RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5770
Alpine 650W PSU
Thanks alot for reading, and please comment with any suggestions or help!