Question PC randomly restarting

[RyanC4460]

Hey guys so I decided to reinstall metro exodus yesterday and update my gpu drivers less then 5 minutes into the game my mouse and keyboard stopped working shortly after it would turn off my monitor and sometimes restart.

I thought it was the drivers so I uninstalled the drivers and the game and then the same result would happen. 90% I load up my pc and use somethint like YouTube it still crashes and or black screen the PC. I got my motherboard a few months ago so it’s pretty fresh. My CPU I have had for a few years. My ram and PSU are only a few months old, I changed Around my ram sticks and changed the PSU wires so I am ruling that out, do I likely need a new CPU? I’m on a 3070ti with a R5 2600x and was considering buying the r9 5900x anyway but is this likely the cause of the issue?

 

[hotaru.hino]

If you didn't reinstall the OS when you swapped motherboards, it may still have some lingering issues with being configured for the old motherboard (granted I'm not sure what that'd be if this is the case).

I'd start with an OS reinstall before swapping hardware in any case.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

changed the PSU wires?

 

[RyanC4460]

If you didn't reinstall the OS when you swapped motherboards, it may still have some lingering issues with being configured for the old motherboard (granted I'm not sure what that'd be if this is the case).

I'd start with an OS reinstall before swapping hardware in any case.

I updated to windows 11 yesterday, reinstalled windows 10 as well and reverted to keeping windows 10 if that makes any sense.

 

[RyanC4460]

changed the PSU wires?

Yeah the PSU wires, I thought maybe it was a dodgy wire or something causing it. It seems to only crash now my pc/black screen when loading into a CPU intensive situation so I think it might be the CPU.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Wires from where another PSU or the same one?

 

[RyanC4460]

Wires from where another PSU or the same one?

The wires that came with the PSU I had spares I thought maybe it was a wire problem so I changed the wires, it seems like a cpu problem ngl but could do with anyone backing me up with that

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

What make and model PSU?

 

[RyanC4460]

What make and model PSU?

Corsair RM850x 80 PLUS Gold Fully Modular ATX 850 Watt Power Supply​

got it basically over a month ago, had no issues with it, that's why I am thinking CPU is my issue, it is my oldest piece of my PC. I know the GPU and RAM are not the issues.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

gOoD psu

 

[RyanC4460]

gOoD psu

Thanks, but with my issue would you also think it could be the CPU? If it was motherboard it wouldn't be black screening my PC only on hardware intensive situations.

 

[scout_03]

use hwinfo the check made log of it then use computer unlit it crash and read the hwinfo report for voltages readings temp and other report any thing suspicious here from the log .

 

[RyanC4460]

Thanks, only thing I really notice is my high CPU temperature which has always been really common, i tried using that software at the start of the issues.

 

[Satan-IR]

Knowing full system specs helps a lot.

What 3070Ti is your card? I would reckeck and reconnect all PSU to board and card cables.

You installed and reinstalled Windows so I'm thinking it's less likely to be a driver issue and some hardware issue including loose wire/eonnections. Or issue related to voltages and temps, as said above, which again is more likely to be hardware-related.

 

[RyanC4460]

Knowing full system specs helps a lot.

What 3070Ti is your card? I would reckeck and reconnect all PSU to board and card cables.

You installed and reinstalled Windows so I'm thinking it's less likely to be a driver issue and some hardware issue including loose wire/eonnections. Or issue related to voltages and temps, as said above, which again is more likely to be hardware-related.

Hi there yes I reinstalled all the cables and reinstalled windows, even with uninstalled drivers I still had the issue. I used other ram sticks and another GPU so that wont be the problem.

 

[Cellie]

Open and set hwinfo to log everything, collect several logs of crashes, then compare them.

Look for patterns, not only temperatures and voltages, look at everything. Some issues are elusive. For example, once I had a system that crashed when the GPU changed PCIe speeds. I only caught that analyzing the logs.

 

[RyanC4460]

Open and set hwinfo to log everything, collect several logs of crashes, then compare them.

Look for patterns, not only temperatures and voltages, look at everything. Some issues are elusive. For example, once I had a system that crashed when the GPU changed PCIe speeds. I only caught that analyzing the logs.

Yes only thing that stands out is CPU Overheating

 

[Cellie]

If you were already inclined to get a new one anyway then by all means go for it, but keep in mind that if the old is overheating indeed (is it? You didn't post temperatures) and that's the cause the new one might as well. You need better airflow and a cooling solution for the new CPU.

 

[RyanC4460]

If you were already inclined to get a new one anyway then by all means go for it, but keep in mind that if the old is overheating indeed (is it? You didn't post temperatures) and that's the cause the new one might as well. You need better airflow and a cooling solution for the new CPU.

That's true but I literally left my pc off last night, turned it on this morning and less then 30 seconds into loading metro exodus the cpu was burning and black screened. CPU has never been an issue before with the same cooler running it in the past