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Sebastjan Robida

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Hey guys. I usually try to solve problems by myself first, so obviously im stummped right now.

A little background info: Went shopping a week ago. Bought a mouse, anti virus( i was running free trials) and some cable accessories. Came home, though i would clean my PC before installing the Bitdefender. Good idea right? WRONG. Managed to delete some drivers and while playing with admin privileges to delete this one folder, i removed all the privileges. Lost internet connection. Wouldn't boot in normal mode. For 3 days i tried my best to fix it. Finally gave up, bought new windows 7 and a portable HDD.

Boom. Fresh install. Get everything setup and all and decide to buy a couple of games. bough GTA IV.

Now the fun part. I run the game for 10 minutes give or take. Sometimes less, sometimes more. Ran it 1080P al the way down to 720P. No lag what so ever. The EVGA precision doesn't even sound the alarm. Cleaned the PC yesterday and wired in another fan. Im running the stock fan on the back, a new one on the front, two on the side. The flow goes like this; Front pulls it in, back pulls it out and sides pull it out. Not sure if it the temp.

Specs:
-12 GB or ddr3 ram.
-Gtx 550ti
-amd phenom II X4 955 3.2
-Power supply is zelman 600W
-Some ASUS mobo. Not sure .

I have been able to run games such as Bioshock Infinite and Crysis 2,3 without any problems. Now with the fresh windows my pc keeps shutting off.

Please help, thanks.
 
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My advice would be to start by re-installing all drivers on your system (download newest version of each first); use RevoUninstaller and do most advanced uninstall option. Once you have a system with no drivers install the newest drivers and reboot and try to play your games.
If installing the newest drivers does not help open the command prompt and type "CHKDSK /R" and reboot, this checks each sector of your hard drive for errors and tries to correct them.
If rebooting issues still happen i would then use a CPU and/or GPU temperature monitoring program, if your temps are too high then you know your problem and can fix it.
If that didn't work and your temps are normal I would next strip the PC down to bare minimum to...
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Shadowblade2652

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This is completely irrelevant but why do you have 12GB's for such a low spec system (it's fairly high spec but you only need like 8 GBs). Also, I'm not sure about the quality of Zalman power supplies... Perhaps your inefficient processor and mid range gpu are using more power than it can give when you put them under load, and your PSU is shutting down.
 
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Not much to go on. Power-wise you should be good, assumuing the PSU is still ok.

Try to rule out recent hardware changes. Given the short amount of time it takes for the problem to occur it could be event-triggered (software) or hardware-related (heat). Event trigger could be energy saving which shut's down unused USB devices, such as your external HDD. (assuming it's connected using USB).
Heat could be either videocard or CPU. Try to get some programs to see operating temperatures for both while gaming.
 
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Check your thermal paste, your cpu may be overheating and shutting down your computer before it fries itself.
Also, try a new PSU, a Corsair TX500 is like $40 right now on Newegg.com, and that's a very reliable/cheap power supply, and should give enough power for your computer.

 
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My advice would be to start by re-installing all drivers on your system (download newest version of each first); use RevoUninstaller and do most advanced uninstall option. Once you have a system with no drivers install the newest drivers and reboot and try to play your games.
If installing the newest drivers does not help open the command prompt and type "CHKDSK /R" and reboot, this checks each sector of your hard drive for errors and tries to correct them.
If rebooting issues still happen i would then use a CPU and/or GPU temperature monitoring program, if your temps are too high then you know your problem and can fix it.
If that didn't work and your temps are normal I would next strip the PC down to bare minimum to run; 1 RAM module, use on-board graphics if applicable, only your boot hard drive, no cd-rom drive, just the CPU fan, and pull any extra cards from your system then power up and try to play the games (obviously the settings will need to be adjusted to be playable but do try to push it, you want to make it fail if possible). If you do this and you get reboot issues start switching RAM until you either find one that works or have used all modules unsuccessfully, if you find one that works start adding modules back in 1 at a time and testing as before. If all of the RAM modules give the same result then you should try a different power supply.
If all that fails...then i think you are probably left with a bad motherboard and/or CPU and at that point just build a new one.
 
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