Hi,
It was around two months ago when my PC randomly restarts while my brother was playing WRC. I simply thought that my GPU was overheating a bit and ignored it, but since then, there has been random restarts especially when I try to play some high end games. I can open these games, hover around the menus, and usually when I click "Play Now" and then the game loads, but before the game finishes loading up, my PC restarts without any warning or blue screen.
Sometimes, I can play these "high end" games for a long time, like even a whole day long, but sometimes, they just won't pass the loading screen. Random restarts not only happen when I try to play games, although very rare, it also happen when I'm just browsing and doing little stuffs. My prime suspect was my graphic driver. I uninstalled it and try installing my old drivers, they didn't help.
My second suspect was either my PSU or my power strip. I've tried changing my power strip which didn't help. I want to try changing my PSU as well, but do not have the money at the moment. None of my hardware are not even a year old yet, and they worked perfectly before.
So, a few hours ago, I noticed that my wifi adapter doesn't detect any wifi, my PC was a little laggy, and also cannot do a phone tethering as PC won't detect my phone, while trying to fix that, BAM! my PC restarts again. After that, I began to think that my windows might be the main culprit.
I've done these steps just incase :
1. Replaced power strip as mentioned before.
2. Changing graphic card drivers.
3. Unpluged and re-plugged all my hardware (Like RAM, GPU and all)
4. Cleaned all of them and re-apply thermal paste on processor heat sink.
5. Assembling them without the cpu case.
6. Changing RAM and GPU slots.
7. Pulling out all of my case fans.
8. Scanning for viruses with Malwarebytes, Windows Defender, Adwcleaner, Hitman Pro.
And none of these helped, my CPU and GPU doesn't overheat and never reach 80 degree Celsius even while heavy gaming.
So, please share your ideas as I've basically ran out of mine. Please do know that I never make restore points as I do not have much space on my hard drive, and also would like to avoid re-installing windows as far as possible. Thanks.
By the way, I've done a stress test using Prime95 and passed, although I did it like for 1hour LOL.. I just couldn't wait. Should I do it again? and my specs are :
1. Dell S2240L monitor.
2. Kingston HyperX 8 GB DDR3 RAM, 1866mhz
3. AMD FX-6300 processor
4. Sapphire R9 280x 3GB Tri-x GPU.
5. Gigabyte GA970A-DS3 (rev 3.0) motherboard
6. Corsair VS650 PSU
No overclocking done.
It was around two months ago when my PC randomly restarts while my brother was playing WRC. I simply thought that my GPU was overheating a bit and ignored it, but since then, there has been random restarts especially when I try to play some high end games. I can open these games, hover around the menus, and usually when I click "Play Now" and then the game loads, but before the game finishes loading up, my PC restarts without any warning or blue screen.
Sometimes, I can play these "high end" games for a long time, like even a whole day long, but sometimes, they just won't pass the loading screen. Random restarts not only happen when I try to play games, although very rare, it also happen when I'm just browsing and doing little stuffs. My prime suspect was my graphic driver. I uninstalled it and try installing my old drivers, they didn't help.
My second suspect was either my PSU or my power strip. I've tried changing my power strip which didn't help. I want to try changing my PSU as well, but do not have the money at the moment. None of my hardware are not even a year old yet, and they worked perfectly before.
So, a few hours ago, I noticed that my wifi adapter doesn't detect any wifi, my PC was a little laggy, and also cannot do a phone tethering as PC won't detect my phone, while trying to fix that, BAM! my PC restarts again. After that, I began to think that my windows might be the main culprit.
I've done these steps just incase :
1. Replaced power strip as mentioned before.
2. Changing graphic card drivers.
3. Unpluged and re-plugged all my hardware (Like RAM, GPU and all)
4. Cleaned all of them and re-apply thermal paste on processor heat sink.
5. Assembling them without the cpu case.
6. Changing RAM and GPU slots.
7. Pulling out all of my case fans.
8. Scanning for viruses with Malwarebytes, Windows Defender, Adwcleaner, Hitman Pro.
And none of these helped, my CPU and GPU doesn't overheat and never reach 80 degree Celsius even while heavy gaming.
So, please share your ideas as I've basically ran out of mine. Please do know that I never make restore points as I do not have much space on my hard drive, and also would like to avoid re-installing windows as far as possible. Thanks.
By the way, I've done a stress test using Prime95 and passed, although I did it like for 1hour LOL.. I just couldn't wait. Should I do it again? and my specs are :
1. Dell S2240L monitor.
2. Kingston HyperX 8 GB DDR3 RAM, 1866mhz
3. AMD FX-6300 processor
4. Sapphire R9 280x 3GB Tri-x GPU.
5. Gigabyte GA970A-DS3 (rev 3.0) motherboard
6. Corsair VS650 PSU
No overclocking done.
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