Hello people of tom's hardware.
My fairly new computer, about a year old has recently started restarting over and over.
SPECS:
Corsair 600CX Builder Series
Intel i3-2100 (not OC'd)
8GB Mushkin Silverline Series DDR3 RAM (replaced with Corsair XMS3's 2x4GB, same timings)
XFX Radeon Core Edition HD7770
500GB SATA2 HDD
Gigabyte GA-H61M-DS2H
Now, about eight months ago my brother had owned this computer, and he complained about how it would restart over and over, however, when I got the computer, it was missing a DVD/CD Writer.
As soon as I attached this, as well as a 1TB SATA HDD, it started running just fine.
Bizarre.
However, the dream would not last.
About a week ago, it started restarting like crazy. This only started as soon as I took out my 1TB HD. It constantly restarts, and there is no pattern to it.
The first time it restarted, the bios went from F7 to F5, and the bios said "The system has experienced boot failures because of overclocking or changes in voltage. Latest settings in BIOS my not coincide with current H/W states." to my knowledge this means that something just simply is wrong.
So help me TH community! What is wrong?!
I have tried switching the ram (with Corsairs now, the Mushkins started restarting too.)
Tested different HDD's
Tested with and without my HD7770
Tested PSU
Tested different Mobo ( I bought a new one because every thing else seemed solid and now I'll have to return it )
I have NOT tested my CPU but it has always been at a stable low temp of 32-40c. I don't know what to do.
It may be the CPU, right? But I have no way of testing at the current moment, so I want to be sure before I go to the store and buy a CPU or something.
My fairly new computer, about a year old has recently started restarting over and over.
SPECS:
Corsair 600CX Builder Series
Intel i3-2100 (not OC'd)
8GB Mushkin Silverline Series DDR3 RAM (replaced with Corsair XMS3's 2x4GB, same timings)
XFX Radeon Core Edition HD7770
500GB SATA2 HDD
Gigabyte GA-H61M-DS2H
Now, about eight months ago my brother had owned this computer, and he complained about how it would restart over and over, however, when I got the computer, it was missing a DVD/CD Writer.
As soon as I attached this, as well as a 1TB SATA HDD, it started running just fine.
Bizarre.
However, the dream would not last.
About a week ago, it started restarting like crazy. This only started as soon as I took out my 1TB HD. It constantly restarts, and there is no pattern to it.
The first time it restarted, the bios went from F7 to F5, and the bios said "The system has experienced boot failures because of overclocking or changes in voltage. Latest settings in BIOS my not coincide with current H/W states." to my knowledge this means that something just simply is wrong.
So help me TH community! What is wrong?!
I have tried switching the ram (with Corsairs now, the Mushkins started restarting too.)
Tested different HDD's
Tested with and without my HD7770
Tested PSU
Tested different Mobo ( I bought a new one because every thing else seemed solid and now I'll have to return it )
I have NOT tested my CPU but it has always been at a stable low temp of 32-40c. I don't know what to do.
It may be the CPU, right? But I have no way of testing at the current moment, so I want to be sure before I go to the store and buy a CPU or something.
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