New Windows 8.1 PC Restarts when playing Games

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LollyHunter

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Hey,
I will try make this short and sweat as best as i can. Basically when ever I seem to play a game, Shogun 2 at the moment, my PC will restart (not shut down restart). It just goes black then has the little blue windows 8 tile thing and then I select my user and whatever. Is it maybe that I have to many applications open (I am currently installing two other games as I play) and I don't have enough RAM? I built this PC myself and it works perfectly except for this little hiccup.

Please Help!

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Sounds like the secondary power connectors from the power supply to the graphics card are not providing proper power so the graphic card tries to get all of its power from the PCI slot. Which will cause the motherboard to reset the CPU.

basically, check that the connections are good and there is proper power to the external connectors
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LollyHunter

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If it were the psu how would i be able to check if it is?
 
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Sounds like the secondary power connectors from the power supply to the graphics card are not providing proper power so the graphic card tries to get all of its power from the PCI slot. Which will cause the motherboard to reset the CPU.

basically, check that the connections are good and there is proper power to the external connectors
 
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