Hello, I am looking for some help today.
First of all lets get my PC specs out of the way.
CPU: i5 4590 non-k
GPU: 660 ti SC
Ram: 2 x 4gb Corsair Vengeance gaming ram
PSU: Not sure of brand, believe it is 500W or 650W (this is the oldest part in my PC)
Motherboard: MSI H-97 PCMate
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 250 GB
This is my problem: I recently purchased the SSD for my birthday, the 850 evo. I put into my PC and cloned the original HDD I had inside of it. 7200 RPM 500gb Seagate Barracuda. I got everything working properly, and all of a sudden when playing WoW my computer restarted, straight up reboot no blue screens or anything. It's like somebody pushed the restart button on my PC. I found it weird that Windows 10 didn't say anything about a crash or finding out what caused it. This is what leads me to believe hardware problems. The restarting persisted and evenually I reformatted my PC because people said that cloned software sometimes has problems. The restarting STILL kept happening in the new install of Win 10. Even with AHCI mode. I installed the firmware in the samsung magician for the SSD, but the RESTARTING has not stopped at all. It has shown other symptoms that leads me to believe the power supply is bad. Sometimes if I turn the PC off at night and go to turn it back on in the morning it will go into a loop of turning on and off. It will power up, beep, lights and fans spin for maybe 1 second and then turn off. This is a continous loop and will keep trying to start up until I unplugged it. When it does this nothing shows up on screen. It took me 1 hour about 4 days ago to get it to finally boot up. I haven't turned it off since because I'm afraid it will get to the point where I can't get it to turn back on at all. I have tried windows memory diagnostics and it says the Ram is ok.
I also remember that I had to reformat it once before because Windows 10 decided that the SSD was an inaccessible boot device. I put the old HDD back in, that still had windows 10, that had worked for 5 years without any problems, and it also said that proven to work HDD was inaccessible. Thats what leads me to believe it is not the SSD.
TLDR:
Computer randomly reboots during gaming
I've checked temps and the computer GPU/CPU are not overheating
Problems booting up, beep, lights and fans on, then looped over a 3 second loop until unplugged. Finally got to boot up after 1 hour of trying.
Ran memory tests on Ram through Win 10 diagnosics and the Ram passed.
PSU is old but might not be the problem
Motherboard and CPU are not 6 months old.
SSD is only about a month old, problems started when I first got the SSD, but I don't know if thats the cause because Win 10 refused the proven to work HDD.
Win 10 showed inaccessible boot device a week after I got the SSD after a fresh install and wouldn't accept the old HDD that was proven to work or the SSD.
Random reboot during gaming only and the type of game doesn't matter, how new or graphical intensive doesn't seem to affect it. There is no pattern its between 20 minutes or up to 2 or 3 hours into the game.
My theories:
PSU is bad and the motherboard is stopping from booting/turning off during gaming to stop damage to other hardware.
SSD is faulty.
Motherboard is faulty.
Thank you for taking the time to read. I wish to fix this myself without having to take it to a repair shop.
First of all lets get my PC specs out of the way.
CPU: i5 4590 non-k
GPU: 660 ti SC
Ram: 2 x 4gb Corsair Vengeance gaming ram
PSU: Not sure of brand, believe it is 500W or 650W (this is the oldest part in my PC)
Motherboard: MSI H-97 PCMate
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 250 GB
This is my problem: I recently purchased the SSD for my birthday, the 850 evo. I put into my PC and cloned the original HDD I had inside of it. 7200 RPM 500gb Seagate Barracuda. I got everything working properly, and all of a sudden when playing WoW my computer restarted, straight up reboot no blue screens or anything. It's like somebody pushed the restart button on my PC. I found it weird that Windows 10 didn't say anything about a crash or finding out what caused it. This is what leads me to believe hardware problems. The restarting persisted and evenually I reformatted my PC because people said that cloned software sometimes has problems. The restarting STILL kept happening in the new install of Win 10. Even with AHCI mode. I installed the firmware in the samsung magician for the SSD, but the RESTARTING has not stopped at all. It has shown other symptoms that leads me to believe the power supply is bad. Sometimes if I turn the PC off at night and go to turn it back on in the morning it will go into a loop of turning on and off. It will power up, beep, lights and fans spin for maybe 1 second and then turn off. This is a continous loop and will keep trying to start up until I unplugged it. When it does this nothing shows up on screen. It took me 1 hour about 4 days ago to get it to finally boot up. I haven't turned it off since because I'm afraid it will get to the point where I can't get it to turn back on at all. I have tried windows memory diagnostics and it says the Ram is ok.
I also remember that I had to reformat it once before because Windows 10 decided that the SSD was an inaccessible boot device. I put the old HDD back in, that still had windows 10, that had worked for 5 years without any problems, and it also said that proven to work HDD was inaccessible. Thats what leads me to believe it is not the SSD.
TLDR:
Computer randomly reboots during gaming
I've checked temps and the computer GPU/CPU are not overheating
Problems booting up, beep, lights and fans on, then looped over a 3 second loop until unplugged. Finally got to boot up after 1 hour of trying.
Ran memory tests on Ram through Win 10 diagnosics and the Ram passed.
PSU is old but might not be the problem
Motherboard and CPU are not 6 months old.
SSD is only about a month old, problems started when I first got the SSD, but I don't know if thats the cause because Win 10 refused the proven to work HDD.
Win 10 showed inaccessible boot device a week after I got the SSD after a fresh install and wouldn't accept the old HDD that was proven to work or the SSD.
Random reboot during gaming only and the type of game doesn't matter, how new or graphical intensive doesn't seem to affect it. There is no pattern its between 20 minutes or up to 2 or 3 hours into the game.
My theories:
PSU is bad and the motherboard is stopping from booting/turning off during gaming to stop damage to other hardware.
SSD is faulty.
Motherboard is faulty.
Thank you for taking the time to read. I wish to fix this myself without having to take it to a repair shop.
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