PC Restarting mainly when starting up games?

[atugwell82]

Hi in the past 3 months my pc has started restarting. No blue screen just restarts,It only happens when ive been playing a game for about an hour or sometimes it restarts just as i start up the game. specs are as follows.

AMD Bulldozer FX-4100
Motherboard- M5A97 LE 2.0
14GB DDR3 1333
500GB Sata HD 7200rpm
GFX-ATI 7750 HD
PSU-650W Modular Powercool Black PSU 80 Plus 12cm Fan SATA Power Supply

also ive checked temps and cpu max while gaming is CPU 54c and GFX is 50c

any help would be great thanx.

 

[atugwell82]

i just shut my pc down to clean and it was installing a couple of updates when i got bsod.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 1a
BCP1: 0000000000000031
BCP2: FFFFFA800C87F160
BCP3: FFFFF88008C26000
BCP4: FFFFF8A00E2CBF8E
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 256_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\112113-23665-01.dmp
C:\Users\AJ\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-65941-0.sysdata.xml

could this be a memory problem?

 

[atugwell82]

just done a benck mark check and it says my gfx card gets 8fps wtf?

 

[Christopher Shaffer]

Hi in the past 3 months my pc has started restarting. No blue screen just restarts,It only happens when ive been playing a game for about an hour or sometimes it restarts just as i start up the game. specs are as follows.

AMD Bulldozer FX-4100
Motherboard- M5A97 LE 2.0
14GB DDR3 1333
500GB Sata HD 7200rpm
GFX-ATI 7750 HD
PSU-650W Modular Powercool Black PSU 80 Plus 12cm Fan SATA Power Supply

also ive checked temps and cpu max while gaming is CPU 54c and GFX is 50c

any help would be great thanx.

I think it's safe to say the issue isn't CPU or GPU temps.

My first instinct is the PSU. If this only happens when you have a large power draw, then it's likely the PSU.

The BSOD error doesn't tell much, except this is a memory or parity issue, but you'll get those from the wrong voltage levels, which occur any time you have a power issue.

It he other thing I'd check is for memory errors. You can do this using the windows memchk function or there are many free benchmark tools that will do this.

To see if you have a CPU parity issue, you can check Windows Event Viewer-> System and look for yellow "/?\" that say "WHEA". These point to low CPU voltage or problems with the CPU itself.

If you see WHEA errors, pay close attention to the time stamp. If you're getting these during boot up, the CPU voltage level is off for some reason. It's hard to say, but a common cause is a bad PSU.

Memory errors can arise due to too low voltage, too. They can potentially cause parity errors in the CPU, too.

So, you know you have a power issue if you're throwing WHEA errors and you get bad results on the memory check, or you coincidentally have a bad CPU, RAM, and/or motherboard and PSU.

I call Occum's Razor, in that case.