- Sep 7, 2015
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Hello All-
Recently - about two months now - built my first computer (many thanks to this wonderful site and community for knowledge and know-how!). Since then, it's been used primarily for living-room gaming with my mates and some light internet browsing.
The past week and a half it hadn't seen any use, but I booted up last morning to peruse the internet and after a short while experienced a crash, then an immediate restart. I scanned the computer for viruses, didn't find anything, and Windows "reliability monitor" had nothing helpful to offer. I used it again that evening, played about 12 minutes of medium-load gaming and had another crash-to-restart.
I've tried a stress-test with furmark and peeked at the inside - CPU and GPU fans are running and working - and all seems well externally. The computer ran fine during the test.
My gut reaction is that there's a problem with the PSU, but if so I'm completely at a loss as to what's causing the problem and how to fix it. Has anyone here had similar issues/ ideas about what might be amiss?
If it helps, my system is:
PSU: Corsair CX600M
CPU: Intel I5-490K
GPU: Strix GTX970 4gb
Motherboard: MSI H97M-E35
Thanks for your time and help!
Recently - about two months now - built my first computer (many thanks to this wonderful site and community for knowledge and know-how!). Since then, it's been used primarily for living-room gaming with my mates and some light internet browsing.
The past week and a half it hadn't seen any use, but I booted up last morning to peruse the internet and after a short while experienced a crash, then an immediate restart. I scanned the computer for viruses, didn't find anything, and Windows "reliability monitor" had nothing helpful to offer. I used it again that evening, played about 12 minutes of medium-load gaming and had another crash-to-restart.
I've tried a stress-test with furmark and peeked at the inside - CPU and GPU fans are running and working - and all seems well externally. The computer ran fine during the test.
My gut reaction is that there's a problem with the PSU, but if so I'm completely at a loss as to what's causing the problem and how to fix it. Has anyone here had similar issues/ ideas about what might be amiss?
If it helps, my system is:
PSU: Corsair CX600M
CPU: Intel I5-490K
GPU: Strix GTX970 4gb
Motherboard: MSI H97M-E35
Thanks for your time and help!
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