PC turns on but keeps rebooting.

[mopar44o]

Hello,
My PC has the following components

Gigabyte 970A-UD3P
AMD-X6 FX-6300
8 gigs of Corsair XMS3 ram DDR3

Recently when I turn it on it it will try to boot up 5-6 times before it shuts off and then tries again in 5-6 min

It beeps once and gets to a bios screen (not fully loaded) before it reboots. It just says Gigabyte UEFI Dual bios at the top of the screen.

One time I saw it say something about bios being corrupted. and looked like a progress bar was going through some process but it rebooted before I could read it all.

I'm assuming there is some sort of BIOS issue clearly.

I tried removing the ram no go, removed and replaced the cmos battery (tested the old one in an appliance it and works)

 

[Maluco4660]

Also can these reboot issues be related to some sort of bug with with windows 10 forced updates?

The issue itself can be a lot of things, i'm trying to guide you to one common diagnose for the related symptoms.

 

[mopar44o]

Its booting past the bios now... I fixed that when I reset the bios with that proceedure i listed above.. It now boots into windows but after a while it just shuts down. I then reboot and it will go back to windows again. I'm not getting hung up at the bios anymore. It's just a random shutdown.

 

[mopar44o]

I get what ur saying though.. Boot it from the jump drive and then try to copy files from the hdd to the jump drive and what not to see if the computer stops responding

 

[Maluco4660]

The issue that got you stuck at bios could be the lack of some boot device at the boot list, once the HDD fails, it's not sure he comes back fully functional right after computer reset. That case the computer keeps trying to reach the HDD.

Try testing with the portable system/ubuntu live, and let us know what happens.

 

[mopar44o]

I thought it was that the bios was corrupt. Was I reset it it hasn't been an issue since. Either way its still installing whatever update windows has... Surprised its taking this long. When its done I'll try to boot from the jump drive version cloned from my laptop

 

[mopar44o]

So I booted it off my jump drive.. Its slow... kind of expected it to be... I don't seem to have access to my original hard drives.. Just the data on the jump drive.

But when I look at device manager I can see my other 2 drives

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K figured out how to turn those drives on... Time to mess around with files for a bit

 

[mopar44o]

So I activated the drive.. selected the drive and ran a scan of it (figured it was the best way to use every file on the drive. Took forever but no issues with the computer)

even copied a few files here and there.

 

[Maluco4660]

has the computer worked well all the test ? Didn't shutdown when using the pendrive system then?

 

[mopar44o]

No issues with pen drive. Completed the scan which took forever but finished it.

Rebooted this morning and ran and it shut down itself again

 

[Maluco4660]

No issues with pen drive. Completed the scan which took forever but finished it.

Rebooted this morning and ran and it shut down itself again

Try to replace your sata cable and check the sata connections, include the hdd energy plug to the check .

 

[mopar44o]

Ok so just replaced cables and checked the power connections..

Also running malware bytes as well as per the tech at the computer store..

will update soon

 

[mopar44o]

Ran the it for a while. Was doing some scans and stuff. Went to the bathroom and it was off when I came back so looked like it shut down again.

Any other ideas? Im getting close to droping it off at a tech soon.

 

[mopar44o]

So I was looking at event logs for shut downs...

The process C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe (DESKTOP-AD9MOV1) has initiated the power off of computer DESKTOP-AD9MOV1 on behalf of user DESKTOP-AD9MOV1\mopar for the following reason: No title for this reason could be found
Reason Code: 0x500ff
Shut-down Type: power off

It says power off. Does that mean someone is pushing power off? and if soo then maybe my power button is fubar on my case?

 

[Maluco4660]

The power off is the windows shutting down, or the screen just turns black ?

If it's the windows shutdown screen, i'm sorry but i totally wasted your time. hehe

 

[mopar44o]

It's shutting down properly. Closing all programs and turning off

 

[Maluco4660]

Yeah, i asked you to test a lot of useless things, sorry kkk i thought it was a shutdown like 'lack of energy shutdown'.

I don't think it's your button because you managed to perform an entire harddrive test with the portable system.
Anyway, try to remove the button from the motherboard after turn the computer on, just to be sure about the button.

And, in that case, i think it's valid you trying to verify for viruses.
Would be great to verify for scheduled tasks(verify at windows tasks) too, verify if have any task sending the command.
I can explain the last part better when i reach home.

 

[mopar44o]

The only hit in all my scans was kmspico. I had to install it when the update wouldn't take my windows 7 key. Unless there is something else the scans missed or I installed a bad version of it loaded with something. I uninstalled it now.

 

[mopar44o]

Let me know how to check the tasks

 

[mopar44o]

Man I'm so sick of windows 10... I shut my pc down a while ago because it seemed to be running fine. 10 mins ago I hear it turn itself on for no reason. Nothing I know was scheduled...

 

[Maluco4660]

Man I'm so sick of windows 10... I shut my pc down a while ago because it seemed to be running fine. 10 mins ago I hear it turn itself on for no reason. Nothing I know was scheduled...

try to remove the button from the motherboard after turn the computer on, just to be sure about the button.
It should be right under the 24pin connector.

Can you test it ?

 

[mopar44o]

So I disconnected the power button and its been running for a few hours without shutting off.... Im running a full scan now just to use some cpu power and see what it does...