PC endless power on/off loop...

[TheNiceGuy]

Hi all
The PC in my sig just crashed tonight while playing bf4. It gave me a blue screen with chunky white letters warning about shutting down to protect the hardware from damage, or somesuch. Then when it tried to reboot, nothing on screen, but LEDs indicate HDD activity, CPU fan fires up, gpu fan - then shuts down all restarts this screen less cycle again. Tried reseating ram, unplug - won't start and won't allow me into safe mode.
Any ideas?

 

[KillerBee]

have you checked the AUGEWS setting in BIOS?

 

[Ketchup]

When you start your computer, do you see the original POST screen?

My first test would probably be to remove one stick of RAM and whichever drive isn't your boot drive.

If that doesn't work, remove your video card and connect to the motherboard video connection (make sure your monitor is adjusted to that connection).

Let me know what happens.

 

[TheNiceGuy]

Thanks fellas.
Appears to be ok now.
I waited a few hours, and it then allowed me to enter the F8 menu, where I selected Start Windows Normaly. It too quite a while to startup. I then updated AMD GPU drivers (which also installed a new Raptr optimizer thingy). Then ran CCCleaner which torched an amazing 7GB of junk.
I've only ran BF4 a couple of times since, but it seems to be running well.
Not sure what caused the original series of lockups and crashes, and violent cycle. A couple days previous to the loop, I had a series of BF4 locks and crashes, with twice a gpu driver update warning.

 

[Ketchup]

I would recommend monitoring your temps during gameplay. Make sure things aren't getting too hot. CPUID HWMonitor is a good one.

 

[TheNiceGuy]

Interesting you mention that now. That was my other thought. The room gets really hot and humid. I felt the components around, and HDDs were the hottest, although everything was pretty warm. I can use aircon if it's a serious problem.

 

[Ketchup]

Worst case would hopefully just mean underclocking for a few months.