- Nov 29, 2013
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I'm hoping someone can shed some light on my issue. This first occurred during the elder scrolls online beta last weekend. While playing, seemingly for no reason, my computer instantly shut down and restarted. It only seemed to happen on a specific character in a specific zone so I figured it was a beta issue and didn't think much of it.
Fast forward a couple days, it started happening while playing World of Warcraft. The times it happened were the least demanding performance wise of anything I was doing. I haven't been able to catch my temperatures right before it has happened, but generally I don't think that is the issue. I've stress tested both the GPU (OCCT) and CPU(Prime95/OCCT), and I ran memtest over night to try and see if I could identify an issue. None of the stress testing reproduced the issue.
I also ran driver sweeper and re installed my video drivers, and when that didn't work I followed the manual method of removing the driver/software/registry entries, and re installed again. I thought this had solved the issue but I just had it happen again and i'm going crazy trying to solve the problem. So far it has only happened while gaming.
Side Notes:
When I had the issue during the TESO beta, windows was crashing trying to restart and I kept sending me to windows repair. I eventually got back to normal by unplugging everything unnecessary, including hard drives other than the OS drive. With WoW, it restarts as smooth and fast as ever, but the instantaneous crash/shut down was the same.
World of Warcraft seems to have the GPU running ~70 degrees, which seems rather high considering OCCT only topped it out at 71. I don't know what would be causing higher temperatures.
My Rig:
i7-4770k (Running @ Stock)
Gigabyte GTX 770 Windforce3 4gigs (Running @ Stock)
G.Skill 16GB @ 1866
Samsung 830 256 GB SDD
Asrock z87 OC Formula
Corsair HX1050 PSU
Fast forward a couple days, it started happening while playing World of Warcraft. The times it happened were the least demanding performance wise of anything I was doing. I haven't been able to catch my temperatures right before it has happened, but generally I don't think that is the issue. I've stress tested both the GPU (OCCT) and CPU(Prime95/OCCT), and I ran memtest over night to try and see if I could identify an issue. None of the stress testing reproduced the issue.
I also ran driver sweeper and re installed my video drivers, and when that didn't work I followed the manual method of removing the driver/software/registry entries, and re installed again. I thought this had solved the issue but I just had it happen again and i'm going crazy trying to solve the problem. So far it has only happened while gaming.
Side Notes:
When I had the issue during the TESO beta, windows was crashing trying to restart and I kept sending me to windows repair. I eventually got back to normal by unplugging everything unnecessary, including hard drives other than the OS drive. With WoW, it restarts as smooth and fast as ever, but the instantaneous crash/shut down was the same.
World of Warcraft seems to have the GPU running ~70 degrees, which seems rather high considering OCCT only topped it out at 71. I don't know what would be causing higher temperatures.
My Rig:
i7-4770k (Running @ Stock)
Gigabyte GTX 770 Windforce3 4gigs (Running @ Stock)
G.Skill 16GB @ 1866
Samsung 830 256 GB SDD
Asrock z87 OC Formula
Corsair HX1050 PSU
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