PC kept restarting. Tried every solution, no luck.

[renohjmd]

Hello everyone,

to start off here's my specs:

CPU : AMD FX 6300
GPU : Zotac GTX 750ti
PSU : Thermaltake Toughpower 750w
MOBO : Asus M5A78L-M LX
RAM : Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz

At first i thought it was the PSU, as it is the common issue for restarting. so i replaced my old crappy psu with a FSP Hexa+ 450w. The issue still persists. again i thought it was a crappy PSU that bought so i sold it and bought the Thermaltake 750w. Still the restarts keep coming and coming. i formatted my pc 3 times and still kept on restarting.

Then i suspected my RAM cause i just recently upgraded it from a Corsair XMS 3 4GB 1300mhz. So i ran memtest86 and no errors to be found. I did the ram timing accordingly to the ram and still no luck. Just to be sure i ran sfc scan in cmd and no errors to be found.

Replaced the CMOS battery still the issue persists.

The restarts is unpredictable, i played Overwatch for hours and it was fine. It always occurs during playing music, forwarding/rewinding movies in VLC, transfering heavy files. I don't know where to diagnose anymore.

My last suspection is my hard disk or my motherboard. that's the only two components I haven't upgrade.

 

[kittybooze]

Did you try just using one stick of ram than the two, assuming you're using two. In my experience, when the problem is happening unpredictably its a faulty capacitor on the motherboard or some such like that, as it just seems to degrade in that manner over time.

 

[renohjmd]

Did you try just using one stick of ram than the two, assuming you're using two. In my experience, when the problem is happening unpredictably its a faulty capacitor on the motherboard or some such like that, as it just seems to degrade in that manner over time.

I did try using one stick, still kept restarting. went back to my old ram, no change. i looked up my motherboard, seems there are no signs of faulty capacitors, all were shiny clean.

 

[ChaoticWolf]

Motherboard or the hard drive or a bad windows install, not sure. If you test another hard disk, check if the sata cable isn't that good.

 

[renohjmd]

Motherboard or the hard drive or a bad windows install, not sure. If you test another hard disk, check if the sata cable isn't that good.

Checked the hard drive. all good. i did reinstall windows many times so i dont think a bad windows install is one of them. However, im not quite sure what to check on the motherboard.

 

[ChaoticWolf]

Maybe get a new motherboard. The motherboard does control every component in the system so i dont know