First off, the SPECS!
OS: Win 7 Pro
CPU: Intel i7-4770k
MB: Asus Maximus VI Formula
RAM: 2x8GB G.Skill
PSU: Corsair 850w
GPU: RTX 2070
SSD 1: Samsung 840 Evo
SSD 2: Samsung 840 Pro
SSD 3: Samsung 860 Evo
HDD: SeaGate Barracuda
How it started:
I was shutting down my PC for the night, then noticed it was restarting by itself. I thought no big deal, maybe it's just an update restarting it or something. But nope, it kept happening over and over again.
So a few hundred google searches and tests later, still haven't found any solutions.
Here's what I've tried so far:
11. I tried resetting CMOS using the button on the back IO shield. Didn't seem to do anything. Maybe I reset it wrong somehow?
Haven't tried taking the battery out because I have to remove the entire motherboard to do so. Thanks to the Formula's sheild.
12. So at this point I'm wondering if a few bullet holes through the mobo might fix things.
Here's a few other things I tried as well.
Ran Command Prompt as Admin and entered: powercfg h off
Tried to see if would shut down in Safe Mode. Same crap.
Tried the shutdown /s /t 00 in Command Prompt, it shut down but then restarted as usual.
Also turned off a bunch of other stuff in the bios just for the heck of it. No difference.
Another thing I don't get, if it's a hardware failure, then why can I still play Shadows of the Tomb Raider on Ultra settings and it still works flawlessly? In fact, it actually runs smoother now that I'm running Win 10 than it was on Win 7. (and I can finally use Ray Tracing and DX12!)
I'm just really curious as to what could make it restart like that out of the blue. Very confusing. :S
The only thing I've done differently in the last month was edit a lot of videos. Is it possible that maybe all that rendering fried something in my cpu?
In the meantime, maybe someone who has had the same issues has something that will help. (fingers crossed)
At this point I'm ready to call it quits and get a new mobo/cpu/psu setup.
OS: Win 7 Pro
CPU: Intel i7-4770k
MB: Asus Maximus VI Formula
RAM: 2x8GB G.Skill
PSU: Corsair 850w
GPU: RTX 2070
SSD 1: Samsung 840 Evo
SSD 2: Samsung 840 Pro
SSD 3: Samsung 860 Evo
HDD: SeaGate Barracuda
How it started:
I was shutting down my PC for the night, then noticed it was restarting by itself. I thought no big deal, maybe it's just an update restarting it or something. But nope, it kept happening over and over again.
So a few hundred google searches and tests later, still haven't found any solutions.
Here's what I've tried so far:
- Opened Device Manager, and literally turned off everything that can "wake" the PC.
- Opened Advanced System Settings>Advanced>Startup and Recovery, turned off Automatically restart option.
- Opened Command Prompt as Admin, entered: powercfg -restoredefaultschemes
- Opened Registry Editor, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Windows NT>Winlogon, and changed PowerDownAfterShutdown from 0 to 1.
- Also turned off "Turn on fast startup" in Power Options.
- Ran Samsung Magician. All SSD's showed Good health.
- Restarted with only one stick of RAM installed. Then tried it again with the other one. No difference.
- Swapped out 2TB Seagate HDD for a recently used 2TB Western Digital HDD. Then did a fresh reinstall using official Windows 10 software from the M$ site. Purchased a (likely pirated) key from ebay.
- Tried everything from 01. to 05. all over again. Everything works perfectly, but STILL restarts after shutdown!!
- So then I swapped out the 2070 for an old 460 that I know works fine. No difference.
11. I tried resetting CMOS using the button on the back IO shield. Didn't seem to do anything. Maybe I reset it wrong somehow?
Haven't tried taking the battery out because I have to remove the entire motherboard to do so. Thanks to the Formula's sheild.
12. So at this point I'm wondering if a few bullet holes through the mobo might fix things.
Here's a few other things I tried as well.
Ran Command Prompt as Admin and entered: powercfg h off
Tried to see if would shut down in Safe Mode. Same crap.
Tried the shutdown /s /t 00 in Command Prompt, it shut down but then restarted as usual.
Also turned off a bunch of other stuff in the bios just for the heck of it. No difference.
Another thing I don't get, if it's a hardware failure, then why can I still play Shadows of the Tomb Raider on Ultra settings and it still works flawlessly? In fact, it actually runs smoother now that I'm running Win 10 than it was on Win 7. (and I can finally use Ray Tracing and DX12!)
I'm just really curious as to what could make it restart like that out of the blue. Very confusing. :S
The only thing I've done differently in the last month was edit a lot of videos. Is it possible that maybe all that rendering fried something in my cpu?
In the meantime, maybe someone who has had the same issues has something that will help. (fingers crossed)
At this point I'm ready to call it quits and get a new mobo/cpu/psu setup.