For a little over a week now, My PC is rebooting itself only when loading into a game. It tends to happen most of the time when it starts to render the Dead by Daylight main menu, or when it's loading into a round of it. Basically anytime it starts needing to work a little harder. It doesn't do it every time and sometimes I can squeeze a few rounds in before it does it. It never reboots once I'm actually in the game and playing - except one time while playing Borderlands 3.
Sometimes when it reboots, it'll hang on a black screen after turning back on and force me to hard reset it. When it's hanging, the CPU "EZ Debug LED" on my motherboard is on - essentially pointing me in that direction. I've done some digging and every thread I've come across with a similar problem say its a PSU issue. I've wondered if maybe the CPU light is on because its the "tipping point" for my PSU, thus false flagging the motherboard LED. Not sure if that's possible or if I'm stupid.
Anytime I've had a CPU issue, I had BSOD. I'm not bluescreening and my CPU is barely a year old. I've tried updating all of my drivers, resetting my PC and monitoring the temps. I don't have any errors in my event log other than "unexpected shutdown".
Does this sound like a CPU or PSU issue? Thanks for any help.
i7-6700k
gtx 970
16gb ram
msi z270 MPOWER motherboard
antec truepower 650w
UPDATE: Bought a new PSU. That did not fix it. Updated my BIOS to the latest version and stress tested my GPU and CPU and they both passed. CPU temp only raised to 52 celsius.
Sometimes when it reboots, it'll hang on a black screen after turning back on and force me to hard reset it. When it's hanging, the CPU "EZ Debug LED" on my motherboard is on - essentially pointing me in that direction. I've done some digging and every thread I've come across with a similar problem say its a PSU issue. I've wondered if maybe the CPU light is on because its the "tipping point" for my PSU, thus false flagging the motherboard LED. Not sure if that's possible or if I'm stupid.
Anytime I've had a CPU issue, I had BSOD. I'm not bluescreening and my CPU is barely a year old. I've tried updating all of my drivers, resetting my PC and monitoring the temps. I don't have any errors in my event log other than "unexpected shutdown".
Does this sound like a CPU or PSU issue? Thanks for any help.
i7-6700k
gtx 970
16gb ram
msi z270 MPOWER motherboard
antec truepower 650w
UPDATE: Bought a new PSU. That did not fix it. Updated my BIOS to the latest version and stress tested my GPU and CPU and they both passed. CPU temp only raised to 52 celsius.
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