- Jul 17, 2016
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I'm at the end of my rope. I really don't understand where I've gone wrong.
My computer seems to shut down seemingly at random. Here's specs and a picture of error stuff before I go any further.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor £98.99 @ Novatech
Motherboard MSI B150I GAMING PRO AC Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard £89.38 @ BT Shop
Memory Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory £32.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive £72.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive £72.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £41.99 @ Ebuyer
Video Card Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti 4GB Video Card £119.99 @ Amazon UK
Case Cooler Master Elite 110 Mini ITX Tower Case £39.55 @ Amazon UK
Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply £70.97 @ Amazon UK
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total £639.84
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-17 20:19 BST+0100
http://imgur.com/a/GiZdI - crash logs
Basically speaking, I built this thing a month or two ago. It was my first build, most of the parts on recommendation from a friend, and it worked splendidly up until I installed my second SSD.
At first it began to simply power itself off. The computer would simply turn off and refuse to come back on properly unless I let it sit for a few minutes. It seemed to happen when I was in the middle of a game, so I thought perhaps it was only doing it under load. After unplugging my second SSD, it worked fine, but I was determined to make it work with both of them in there.
I updated my GPU's drivers, which seemed to cause it to settle down for a little while - before it would start freezing. No longer content with simply turning itself off, the entire computer would freeze up. Screen would still be on but frozen, fans would still be spinning, lights would still be on, but nobody would be home. Restarting sometimes took it a few tries, and required leaving it alone for a bit. If it didn't turn itself off straight after powering on, it would just boot to a blank screen without showing BIOS or anything else.
My friend recommended I try setting my GPU's memory clock to a fixed value, after we decided it might be a problem with power. No dice. I've opened it several times to check all the connections, unplugged and replugged stuff, all to no avail. It even crashed while I was writing this (I have to back it up to a notepad file just in case).
There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to its crashes. It will turn off under heavy load. It will turn off at idle. It will turn off under light loads. It will freeze when I'm doing something that yesterday it was happy to do for hours, but will suddenly be fine with the thing that it was crashing over before.
If this is a hardware issue, I'm not too worried about calling a tech out to look at the thing. I want one last opinion before I shell out the cash for that. You're my last hope! What have I done wrong?
My computer seems to shut down seemingly at random. Here's specs and a picture of error stuff before I go any further.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor £98.99 @ Novatech
Motherboard MSI B150I GAMING PRO AC Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard £89.38 @ BT Shop
Memory Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory £32.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive £72.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive £72.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £41.99 @ Ebuyer
Video Card Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti 4GB Video Card £119.99 @ Amazon UK
Case Cooler Master Elite 110 Mini ITX Tower Case £39.55 @ Amazon UK
Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply £70.97 @ Amazon UK
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total £639.84
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-17 20:19 BST+0100
http://imgur.com/a/GiZdI - crash logs
Basically speaking, I built this thing a month or two ago. It was my first build, most of the parts on recommendation from a friend, and it worked splendidly up until I installed my second SSD.
At first it began to simply power itself off. The computer would simply turn off and refuse to come back on properly unless I let it sit for a few minutes. It seemed to happen when I was in the middle of a game, so I thought perhaps it was only doing it under load. After unplugging my second SSD, it worked fine, but I was determined to make it work with both of them in there.
I updated my GPU's drivers, which seemed to cause it to settle down for a little while - before it would start freezing. No longer content with simply turning itself off, the entire computer would freeze up. Screen would still be on but frozen, fans would still be spinning, lights would still be on, but nobody would be home. Restarting sometimes took it a few tries, and required leaving it alone for a bit. If it didn't turn itself off straight after powering on, it would just boot to a blank screen without showing BIOS or anything else.
My friend recommended I try setting my GPU's memory clock to a fixed value, after we decided it might be a problem with power. No dice. I've opened it several times to check all the connections, unplugged and replugged stuff, all to no avail. It even crashed while I was writing this (I have to back it up to a notepad file just in case).
There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to its crashes. It will turn off under heavy load. It will turn off at idle. It will turn off under light loads. It will freeze when I'm doing something that yesterday it was happy to do for hours, but will suddenly be fine with the thing that it was crashing over before.
If this is a hardware issue, I'm not too worried about calling a tech out to look at the thing. I want one last opinion before I shell out the cash for that. You're my last hope! What have I done wrong?
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