Hi there, I'm having a weird issue with my PC. I've been building PCs for well over half my life, but I'm stumped here!
At first, an issue appeared where my PC would randomly freeze for a few seconds then reboot. There's no BSOD, probably because Windows 10 hides this by default as I recall. Seemed to happen at random, but only when I was in Windows, it never happened during games. So I figured it must have been a program, probably Chrome since I use it a lot. But I've tried disabling hardware acceleration, running it in incognito mode (to disable extensions) but it still happened.
I originally figured that it wasn't due to faulty hardware since I could game for hours without any sudden reboots. And if anything is going to stress the system the system and cause faulty hardware to fall over, it would be gaming. And that was true for a long time, until I had the system suddenly power-off during a game. The odd thing is, this was different to what normally happens. Instead of rebooting (i.e the fans and lights are still on) like it usually does, it straight-up powered off. Then powered back on after a few seconds.
I've checked the Event Viewer, but it's not much help. It does record every time it's suddenly rebooted, but it just says "Event 41, kernel power".
In terms of checking the hardware, my PSU's watts seem to be sufficient, with my PC running around 500w when gaming. Cooling seems to be fine, I ran an hour of Prime95 and it only reached into the 80s before settling into the 60s.
I'm kinda suspecting my CPU. I know that if you try to overclock it at all, it's really unstable, even an XMP profile causes problems. I've never heard of a faulty CPU, but I guess it's possible.
Anyway, I'm out of ideas, any clues guys? I've even tried a fresh Windows install, but that didn't change anything.
Anyway, here's my specs:
OS: Windows 10 Pro
CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K
CPU Cooler: Corsair H150i PRO
Motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS X CODE
GPU: Asus STRIX GeForce RTX 2080Ti
RAM: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32GB (4x 8GB) DDR4-3200
PSU: SeaSonic PRIME Titanium 750W 80+ Titanium
At first, an issue appeared where my PC would randomly freeze for a few seconds then reboot. There's no BSOD, probably because Windows 10 hides this by default as I recall. Seemed to happen at random, but only when I was in Windows, it never happened during games. So I figured it must have been a program, probably Chrome since I use it a lot. But I've tried disabling hardware acceleration, running it in incognito mode (to disable extensions) but it still happened.
I originally figured that it wasn't due to faulty hardware since I could game for hours without any sudden reboots. And if anything is going to stress the system the system and cause faulty hardware to fall over, it would be gaming. And that was true for a long time, until I had the system suddenly power-off during a game. The odd thing is, this was different to what normally happens. Instead of rebooting (i.e the fans and lights are still on) like it usually does, it straight-up powered off. Then powered back on after a few seconds.
I've checked the Event Viewer, but it's not much help. It does record every time it's suddenly rebooted, but it just says "Event 41, kernel power".
In terms of checking the hardware, my PSU's watts seem to be sufficient, with my PC running around 500w when gaming. Cooling seems to be fine, I ran an hour of Prime95 and it only reached into the 80s before settling into the 60s.
I'm kinda suspecting my CPU. I know that if you try to overclock it at all, it's really unstable, even an XMP profile causes problems. I've never heard of a faulty CPU, but I guess it's possible.
Anyway, I'm out of ideas, any clues guys? I've even tried a fresh Windows install, but that didn't change anything.
Anyway, here's my specs:
OS: Windows 10 Pro
CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K
CPU Cooler: Corsair H150i PRO
Motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS X CODE
GPU: Asus STRIX GeForce RTX 2080Ti
RAM: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32GB (4x 8GB) DDR4-3200
PSU: SeaSonic PRIME Titanium 750W 80+ Titanium