Hey,
I recently replaced my mobo and processor and made a clean reinstall of Win7, to fix an issue with my PC BSODing due to DirectX being faulty.
The issue was fixed, but almost a month later I have started to have random reboots during gaming. It occurs like this: The PC shuts down, no BSOD. Power goes off like electricity went out. Then after a few seconds, the PC boots and everything works correctly until the next sudden reboot.
I will list my specs below:
Asus Maximus VII Ranger mobo
Intel i7 4790k at default 4 GHz, no overclock
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU cooling
2TB Kingston HDD
126 GB Transcend SSD with Windows on it
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 3072MB GDDR5
8GB Dual Ripjaws RAM
Corsair RM850 PSU
Software commonly active during event of sudden reboot:
Foobar2000
StarCraft II/Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Open Broadcaster Software
Skype
Steam
Battle-Net App
Razer Synapse
PrntScrn screen cap tool
Nvidia GeForce Experience
Resource Control
CPUID HWMonitor
Sandboxie Control
Other notes: My system is 64 bit. I have updated my BIOS to the latest, I have not yet updated windows after the reinstall - updating it as I write.
So far I've been thinking that It must be either some game setting, or Foobar2000, but googling hasn't given me much help. It does not seem to be an overheating problem.
Update: 15.2.2015
Windows updates installed, GPU drivers updated to the latest. I played four games on the course of 3 hours in StarCraft II without sudden reboots. I suspect that Foobar2000 may be causing reboots, as it did cause me difficulties in far past, but it should be highly unlikely that software is the cause. Today I will be gaming with Foobar2000 playing music in the backround and see if I reboot.
If I do get a reboot, I will try a different music playing software and see again. However, do keep on posting suggestions. All help is greatly appreciated! \o/
Update: 16.2.2015
Reboot issue remains still, and I discovered that my Razer Blackwidow Chroma's driver software (Razer Synapse) could be causing this. There were news of the latest update causing it to be unstable. The latest sudden shut down I had was during no gaming, simply typing to a friend on steam. I uninstalled Razer Synapse and cleaned registry with CCleaner and am now waiting to see wether this solved my issue.
Later the same day:
I looked in to event viewer and it showed 9 critical errors over the course of the existance of my issue. The ID was 41, source was Kernel-Power (Possibly PSU, or hardware in general) and after some googling this could be either hard disk, RAM or PSU problem. Right now I'm playing without my HDD attatched, seeing wether I get a reboot this way.
I recently replaced my mobo and processor and made a clean reinstall of Win7, to fix an issue with my PC BSODing due to DirectX being faulty.
The issue was fixed, but almost a month later I have started to have random reboots during gaming. It occurs like this: The PC shuts down, no BSOD. Power goes off like electricity went out. Then after a few seconds, the PC boots and everything works correctly until the next sudden reboot.
I will list my specs below:
Asus Maximus VII Ranger mobo
Intel i7 4790k at default 4 GHz, no overclock
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU cooling
2TB Kingston HDD
126 GB Transcend SSD with Windows on it
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 3072MB GDDR5
8GB Dual Ripjaws RAM
Corsair RM850 PSU
Software commonly active during event of sudden reboot:
Foobar2000
StarCraft II/Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Open Broadcaster Software
Skype
Steam
Battle-Net App
Razer Synapse
PrntScrn screen cap tool
Nvidia GeForce Experience
Resource Control
CPUID HWMonitor
Sandboxie Control
Other notes: My system is 64 bit. I have updated my BIOS to the latest, I have not yet updated windows after the reinstall - updating it as I write.
So far I've been thinking that It must be either some game setting, or Foobar2000, but googling hasn't given me much help. It does not seem to be an overheating problem.
Update: 15.2.2015
Windows updates installed, GPU drivers updated to the latest. I played four games on the course of 3 hours in StarCraft II without sudden reboots. I suspect that Foobar2000 may be causing reboots, as it did cause me difficulties in far past, but it should be highly unlikely that software is the cause. Today I will be gaming with Foobar2000 playing music in the backround and see if I reboot.
If I do get a reboot, I will try a different music playing software and see again. However, do keep on posting suggestions. All help is greatly appreciated! \o/
Update: 16.2.2015
Reboot issue remains still, and I discovered that my Razer Blackwidow Chroma's driver software (Razer Synapse) could be causing this. There were news of the latest update causing it to be unstable. The latest sudden shut down I had was during no gaming, simply typing to a friend on steam. I uninstalled Razer Synapse and cleaned registry with CCleaner and am now waiting to see wether this solved my issue.
Later the same day:
I looked in to event viewer and it showed 9 critical errors over the course of the existance of my issue. The ID was 41, source was Kernel-Power (Possibly PSU, or hardware in general) and after some googling this could be either hard disk, RAM or PSU problem. Right now I'm playing without my HDD attatched, seeing wether I get a reboot this way.