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I built my computer a couple years ago. It is a windows 7, with i5 2500k chip, 4GB Ram, HX750 power supply, gtx 770 GPU and ASRock z68 MB along with a dual monitor setup. Yesterday it shutdown out of no where with no warning and immediately restarted, which freaked me out but okay whatever. Today it did the same thing earlier on in the day. Then 5 minutes ago it shutdown and restarted 5 times in a row, I opened one window before it shutdown again. I went to the bios and the CPU is idle at 50c so I shutoff the emergency temp shutdown figuring that was the problem. I turned it back on, it was running smoothly until it shutdown again and it tried to restart but a screen came up and said to connect the pcie power cables for this graphics card
 
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nukemaster
Your cable may not be firmly seated(even a bit of oxidization can cause things like this sometimes). I had a fully inserted video card only get pci-e x1 before a quick re-seat(remove and re-insert into the pci-e slot) and it never had issues again.

Try to disconnect the video card power cables and then reconnect them.

If you are still having issues you can try some of the modular pci-e cables from the power supply box to see if they work right.

If you still have issues, it may be a good idea to examine the card to ensure the plugs look to not be loose. If you can try the card in another system or a friends system it would also be great.
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Your cable may not be firmly seated(even a bit of oxidization can cause things like this sometimes). I had a fully inserted video card only get pci-e x1 before a quick re-seat(remove and re-insert into the pci-e slot) and it never had issues again.

Try to disconnect the video card power cables and then reconnect them.

If you are still having issues you can try some of the modular pci-e cables from the power supply box to see if they work right.

If you still have issues, it may be a good idea to examine the card to ensure the plugs look to not be loose. If you can try the card in another system or a friends system it would also be great.
 
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Will it run long enough to download and run HWInfo - Sensors and post the rsults (3 screenshots via TinyPic)?

At first sight, it looks like the cpu is getting way too hot - which will do it.

Can you drop the cpu voltage - say by 0.3V?

Can you bump up the cpu cooler fan to 2000rpm?

Post your complete build - per forum guideline - make and model of every bit in a list including OS and monitors

 
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