Pc shuts down by itself and restarts

[tommybc]

This has only started happening a couple of days since I got a gpu for it, but after a couple of minutes even when inactive it shuts down by itself and restarts

 

[Brighttail]

How are your temps? Motherboards have the ability to turn off your machine if it is running too hot in order to protect the CPU and components. Are all your fans working n such? I would get REAL TEMP or something and check to see how hot things are.

If it is not this, are you getting any blue screens? Have you checked the Event Log to see what is causing it?

 

[revernt]

(I assume you're running windows)
Are you able to share a dump file with us?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263#method3

 

[tommybc]

How are your temps? Motherboards have the ability to turn off your machine if it is running too hot in order to protect the CPU and components. Are all your fans working n such? I would get REAL TEMP or something and check to see how hot things are.

If it is not this, are you getting any blue screens? Have you checked the Event Log to see what is causing it?

it has very low temps so i doubt that's causing it, i will check it but how do i do so for unexpected shutdowns?

 

[tommybc]

(I assume you're running windows)
Are you able to share a dump file with us?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263#method3

i will do so soon

 

[tommybc]

I think it may be because of the ssd sata, as the pc shut down again bit when I turned it on it would not appear (the ssd) even on the bios, though I took out and put them back in and it worked fine again

 

[tommybc]

now since that happened the keyboard won't work right, after i log in (which works fine) barely any keys work and the ones that do are entering completely different keys then they should, would it be because i moved the sad to a different data port, booted to windows (i didn't log in though) and turned it off again then moved it back to the originl sata port

 

[Brighttail]

Well now this is confusing. Virus? Power supply? Done a virus scan lately? Try one in Safe mode.

 

[tommybc]

(I assume you're running windows)
Are you able to share a dump file with us?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263#method3

i didn't find any recent ones it's probably because it didn't crash with bsod, it only shut down and restarted/ tried to restart immediately though sometimes it wouldn't be able to (turn back on for 2 seconds and turn off again )

 

[tommybc]

Well now this is confusing. Virus? Power supply? Done a virus scan lately? Try one in Safe mode.

never mind that was my mouse's fault it had ALT pressed down by itself