Computer keeps restarting while gaming

bba · Mar 22, 2014

I've recently built a pc and its been working fine until it decide to restart in midsession. I update all the drivers its stays on as long as im not playing a game. Help!

AMD Athlon X4 760k Quad core processor 3.80 Ghz-cpu
crucial ballistic 8gb -ram
Windows 8.1
EVGA Geforce 660 SC edition-gpu
MSI A78M-E35 - motherboard

ayushde · Mar 22, 2014

bba :

Post your load temps....maybe some of your components are getting too hot and forcing your PC to restart...

jay2tall · Mar 22, 2014

If its restarting only while in game it could be a heat issue, or a GPU issue. You can download something like OCCT to run a CPU test and make sure its not the CPU and then run a GPU test with error checking. I've had to return a card in the past because of bad VRAM. It only shut off during games that really hit it hard. I would get VRAM errors once it hit anything over 80C. If you underclocked the VRAM it worked fine as well. Just some thoughts, but it's probably a heat or card issue.

maggiebauer1 · Oct 29, 2014

I had this problem when my power supply wasn't supplying enough to my graphics card. Computer would restart with no warning - just black out and start up. I had to underclock the graphics card to prevent the problem.

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