Hello! I have been having a very strange crashing issue with my PC (also sorry in advance if this doesn’t belong in Win10 forum; I am not sure if the issue is with windows or hardware or something else.)
The issue I am having is my PC will boot up, start and everything and I can play games and whatnot for a variable amount of time and then the PC will completely power off, no blue screen or anything. Sometimes I can play a game all day and it will be fine, sometimes it does this repeatedly every 10-15 min. I also have variable levels of success even powering it back on, sometimes I can hit the power button after it crashes and it will start back up, sometimes it boots after a second and then shuts off, and sometimes, more rarely, it just will not power on at all. No lights or sounds, anything.
Here are the solutions I have already tried:
I first thought it was an electrical issue, so I replaced the PSU, and still had the issue, and so I also replaced the mother board and CPU, and still had the same issue. At the same time I also got an SSD and installed a fresh install of Windows 10 and have been using that, but continuing to have the issue. I tried to run my PC without the old HDD connected, but my motherboard wouldn’t boot from the SSD even though it is GPT and should boot in UEFI (I tried solving this but couldn’t find why it wasn’t able to boot from it and got frustrated).
I have since put my old mobo and CPU back in since I couldn’t afford the new parts if they didn’t fix my issue.
I have two friends that work in IT and one has had me try things and the other has looked into my event log to see if anything made sense, and seemed to not find anything helpful. I can post an event log later if it will help. I have done the windows RAM diagnostic and Memtest86 and both returned good for the 2 sticks I have.
A couple days ago, when the PC was in a phase of not powering on at all, my friend had me remove/unplug everything except cpu and mobo power and it still didn’t turn on, but I had already replaced those, and so I’m very confused on what is causing this issue. I had thought maybe overheating too, but even while I have Elden Ring open my cpu was ~40 Celsius and my gpu was ~50 Celsius
PC Specs:
Intel i7-6700K
Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H mobo
Coolmaster Hyper 212 Evo cooler
2x4gb ADATA XPG Z1 DDR4-2400
Seagate Barracuda 2 TB HDD
PNY CS900 240gb SSD
Nvidia GTX 970
Corsair 200D case
EVGA 500GD psu
Samsung cd/dvd writer
TP link tl wdn 4800
parts I have replaced/switched out: cpu, mobo, power supply, tested RAM ok
let me know if any other info is needed! I’d like to know if anyone has experienced a similar issue or knows what the cause may be. Thanks!
The issue I am having is my PC will boot up, start and everything and I can play games and whatnot for a variable amount of time and then the PC will completely power off, no blue screen or anything. Sometimes I can play a game all day and it will be fine, sometimes it does this repeatedly every 10-15 min. I also have variable levels of success even powering it back on, sometimes I can hit the power button after it crashes and it will start back up, sometimes it boots after a second and then shuts off, and sometimes, more rarely, it just will not power on at all. No lights or sounds, anything.
Here are the solutions I have already tried:
I first thought it was an electrical issue, so I replaced the PSU, and still had the issue, and so I also replaced the mother board and CPU, and still had the same issue. At the same time I also got an SSD and installed a fresh install of Windows 10 and have been using that, but continuing to have the issue. I tried to run my PC without the old HDD connected, but my motherboard wouldn’t boot from the SSD even though it is GPT and should boot in UEFI (I tried solving this but couldn’t find why it wasn’t able to boot from it and got frustrated).
I have since put my old mobo and CPU back in since I couldn’t afford the new parts if they didn’t fix my issue.
I have two friends that work in IT and one has had me try things and the other has looked into my event log to see if anything made sense, and seemed to not find anything helpful. I can post an event log later if it will help. I have done the windows RAM diagnostic and Memtest86 and both returned good for the 2 sticks I have.
A couple days ago, when the PC was in a phase of not powering on at all, my friend had me remove/unplug everything except cpu and mobo power and it still didn’t turn on, but I had already replaced those, and so I’m very confused on what is causing this issue. I had thought maybe overheating too, but even while I have Elden Ring open my cpu was ~40 Celsius and my gpu was ~50 Celsius
PC Specs:
Intel i7-6700K
Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H mobo
Coolmaster Hyper 212 Evo cooler
2x4gb ADATA XPG Z1 DDR4-2400
Seagate Barracuda 2 TB HDD
PNY CS900 240gb SSD
Nvidia GTX 970
Corsair 200D case
EVGA 500GD psu
Samsung cd/dvd writer
TP link tl wdn 4800
parts I have replaced/switched out: cpu, mobo, power supply, tested RAM ok
let me know if any other info is needed! I’d like to know if anyone has experienced a similar issue or knows what the cause may be. Thanks!