Hello everyone! My first post here, hope this is in the right place, I tried to provide as much information as I could, let me know if you need anything that's missing. I just recently got done building a mostly new PC and I am having a weird issue. It will randomly power off like someone just pulled the plug on it or my house lost power, and then a couple seconds later it will turn its self back on and boot up like nothing happened. It will happen in bursts it seems. It will be fine most of the day, and then it power off and on up to 4 times so far with me being able to use the computer for a couple minutes between each one. This has been happening for three days now.
I don't really have any idea where to start with this, everything is brand new except the video card and power supply which I carried over from my previous computer. The PSU worked fine there though, but I suppose it is possible it just now started to fail after moving it.
I unplugged the case's reset button jumper as well just to be sure the case wasn't accidentally activating it somehow, PC still restarts its self.
I did a short RAM test with memtest, no errors with just the short test.
Nothing is overheating, all temps look fine while in games.
I have a new power supply coming in on Monday, so I will be able to try that out then, but in the mean time does anyone else have any idea at what could be causing this? Do you think my PSU really could have suddenly started to die? It is a 520w Seasonic I bought back in 2010 that's been in near constant use since then, I rarely completely shut down my PC. Or maybe the motherboard? I looked but didn't see any popped capacitors or anything noteworthy, but I didn't look too intensely either.
Specs:
Mobo: Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 3
RAM: Corsair Vengance LPX 8GBx2 DDR4
CPU: Core i5 6500
GPU: MSI Twin Frozr GTX 660
PSU: Seasonic S12II 520w
I don't really have any idea where to start with this, everything is brand new except the video card and power supply which I carried over from my previous computer. The PSU worked fine there though, but I suppose it is possible it just now started to fail after moving it.
I unplugged the case's reset button jumper as well just to be sure the case wasn't accidentally activating it somehow, PC still restarts its self.
I did a short RAM test with memtest, no errors with just the short test.
Nothing is overheating, all temps look fine while in games.
I have a new power supply coming in on Monday, so I will be able to try that out then, but in the mean time does anyone else have any idea at what could be causing this? Do you think my PSU really could have suddenly started to die? It is a 520w Seasonic I bought back in 2010 that's been in near constant use since then, I rarely completely shut down my PC. Or maybe the motherboard? I looked but didn't see any popped capacitors or anything noteworthy, but I didn't look too intensely either.
Specs:
Mobo: Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 3
RAM: Corsair Vengance LPX 8GBx2 DDR4
CPU: Core i5 6500
GPU: MSI Twin Frozr GTX 660
PSU: Seasonic S12II 520w
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