Hi guys, new forum user here..
I've been having an issue with my computer lately. Whenever I play ESO (Beta), Planetside 2, or SWTOR, my computer will reboot. It does this without warning, just as if I was hard booting my computer. I'll be playing a game, then straight to black screen and 3-5 seconds later my BIOS splash screen pops up.
I've read about this issue extensively and checked in on numerous things to see if it would alleviate the issue.
Important things to note about my system when these problems started arising.
The motherboard, graphics card and case I received from a friend who was upgrading his system. I did not have my own yet, so I figured I could use these 3 pieces to start building from.
When I finally got my system up, a few days later (and yes, I had played and tested my system before then) I had a friend over and my girlfriend in the living room with me, where my system is at. We were all playing a video game of some sort, me on my system that I had finally got set up, my friend on a large 44'' TV (Can't remember size, big TV) playing on the Xbox and my girlfriend on her computer, so needless to say, all that going on in a little apartment, the fuse tripped and everything turned off. I reset it and started the system back up without having the other console or computer on and it ran fine.
About a day after that, I'm playing Planetside 2, I just had installed and got it up and running to see how it did. It automatically set the graphics to Ultra and was running nicely, but I did not know thats what the settings had defaulted too, so about after 20 minutes, my card overheated and turned off because the fans were not able to keep up.
Ever since, playing any game I listed above results into 15 minutes of playing time and then restarting.
My event viewer logs that it is always a critical error, Event ID 41, Task Catagory 63, Source Kernal Power
Heres my system specs:
Motherboard: Asus Maximus V Formula (Windows 8 and PCI-E 3.0 ready)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU@ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.4ghz
RAM: 1 stick of 8G DDR3 Kingston 1600mhz (Planning on adding more..)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64x bit
Graphics card: Asus Geforce GTX 580
PSU: Corsair AX850 850watt
After reading extensively about people having these issues, here are some of the things I've tried..
-Shut down computer and reseated the RAM, the CPU, the Graphics card and checked to make sure that my PSU didn't have a switch from between USA and EU voltages or whatever, (115 - 220)
-Assumed it was most likely a PSU issue and purchased a Cougar RS 650w PSU 80+ Certified(Bronze), 4th generation haswell CPU ready & Installed it into my system
-Ran Windows 7 important updates (7 updates, all installed and applied)
-Updated the drivers for my video card
-Monitored the heat on my hardware and made sure that it was not overheating
I was able to today (2/11/2014) able to play 3 games of League of Legends without having my computer restart on me, which is a little hopeful. The game, however, is way less graphical demanding that the other 3 I listed that I play.
Sorry if I left out important information or don't have enough, but could anyone shed some light on what the issue could be or any steps I could go about to try fixing the problem?
I've been having an issue with my computer lately. Whenever I play ESO (Beta), Planetside 2, or SWTOR, my computer will reboot. It does this without warning, just as if I was hard booting my computer. I'll be playing a game, then straight to black screen and 3-5 seconds later my BIOS splash screen pops up.
I've read about this issue extensively and checked in on numerous things to see if it would alleviate the issue.
Important things to note about my system when these problems started arising.
The motherboard, graphics card and case I received from a friend who was upgrading his system. I did not have my own yet, so I figured I could use these 3 pieces to start building from.
When I finally got my system up, a few days later (and yes, I had played and tested my system before then) I had a friend over and my girlfriend in the living room with me, where my system is at. We were all playing a video game of some sort, me on my system that I had finally got set up, my friend on a large 44'' TV (Can't remember size, big TV) playing on the Xbox and my girlfriend on her computer, so needless to say, all that going on in a little apartment, the fuse tripped and everything turned off. I reset it and started the system back up without having the other console or computer on and it ran fine.
About a day after that, I'm playing Planetside 2, I just had installed and got it up and running to see how it did. It automatically set the graphics to Ultra and was running nicely, but I did not know thats what the settings had defaulted too, so about after 20 minutes, my card overheated and turned off because the fans were not able to keep up.
Ever since, playing any game I listed above results into 15 minutes of playing time and then restarting.
My event viewer logs that it is always a critical error, Event ID 41, Task Catagory 63, Source Kernal Power
Heres my system specs:
Motherboard: Asus Maximus V Formula (Windows 8 and PCI-E 3.0 ready)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU@ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.4ghz
RAM: 1 stick of 8G DDR3 Kingston 1600mhz (Planning on adding more..)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64x bit
Graphics card: Asus Geforce GTX 580
PSU: Corsair AX850 850watt
After reading extensively about people having these issues, here are some of the things I've tried..
-Shut down computer and reseated the RAM, the CPU, the Graphics card and checked to make sure that my PSU didn't have a switch from between USA and EU voltages or whatever, (115 - 220)
-Assumed it was most likely a PSU issue and purchased a Cougar RS 650w PSU 80+ Certified(Bronze), 4th generation haswell CPU ready & Installed it into my system
-Ran Windows 7 important updates (7 updates, all installed and applied)
-Updated the drivers for my video card
-Monitored the heat on my hardware and made sure that it was not overheating
I was able to today (2/11/2014) able to play 3 games of League of Legends without having my computer restart on me, which is a little hopeful. The game, however, is way less graphical demanding that the other 3 I listed that I play.
Sorry if I left out important information or don't have enough, but could anyone shed some light on what the issue could be or any steps I could go about to try fixing the problem?
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