Hello everyone, hope I'm in the right place.
I built my own system for the first time a year and a half ago. A few months in I noticed it restarted on it's own completely randomly, didn't matter if I was using high resources or not. This is still a problem today. If I leave my computer on for a week or 2 it will definitely restart at least once, but it works 98% of the time. In the beginning I thought it was a Power Supply problem so I bought a new corsair one and left it on and it was fine for a few weeks and restarted again. Months ago, Not wanting to buy anything else that might not be the problem I took it to my local computer shop and spent $85 to have them look at it. They said they thought it was a software problem related to my graphics card and to reinstall windows without the graphics card then put it back in. They of course offered to do this for another $100+ and said my processor had graphics built into it which I don't think it does. (CPU: FX-6300) I was using windows 8 originally and ended up installing windows 7 pro back on it. So I didn't take out my graphics card and reinstall windows, but I did reinstall windows from 8 to 7. Once again, thought it fixed it but restarted shortly after that. I ended up reading some help sites like this one and ended up turning off the windows 7 feature of restarting when it encounters a problem so I could try to diagnose it. It has since BSOD'ed a few times and I can't really tell what the error messages are related to, I think all the critical ones are event 41's. It has been months since I installed windows 7 pro as opposed to windows 8. I have been babying it by turning it off at night but it will still restart occasionally while in use or just idling even when I do that.
Like I said it doesn't seem to matter what I'm doing, just checking email or playing an intensive game. It works 98% of the time and it hasn't actually happened in more than a month of babying it and using it all day. I also had bought new RAM at once point wanting to upgrade anyway and that did not help, so I don't think it's RAM or PSU.
Some of it might have been my power at my new apartment so I got a new UPS and while it did it's job with helping when the power got too low the restarting thing still happened.
I still think it's a hardware problem, maybe my motherboard. I have almost saved up enough money to take it back in to a different place to have them look at it and was hoping someone here might be able to help me determine the issue before I shell out another $90.
I have been really busy so I haven't had much time to comb the internet for help until now.
Let me know if my PC specs would help.
Thanks in advance!
I built my own system for the first time a year and a half ago. A few months in I noticed it restarted on it's own completely randomly, didn't matter if I was using high resources or not. This is still a problem today. If I leave my computer on for a week or 2 it will definitely restart at least once, but it works 98% of the time. In the beginning I thought it was a Power Supply problem so I bought a new corsair one and left it on and it was fine for a few weeks and restarted again. Months ago, Not wanting to buy anything else that might not be the problem I took it to my local computer shop and spent $85 to have them look at it. They said they thought it was a software problem related to my graphics card and to reinstall windows without the graphics card then put it back in. They of course offered to do this for another $100+ and said my processor had graphics built into it which I don't think it does. (CPU: FX-6300) I was using windows 8 originally and ended up installing windows 7 pro back on it. So I didn't take out my graphics card and reinstall windows, but I did reinstall windows from 8 to 7. Once again, thought it fixed it but restarted shortly after that. I ended up reading some help sites like this one and ended up turning off the windows 7 feature of restarting when it encounters a problem so I could try to diagnose it. It has since BSOD'ed a few times and I can't really tell what the error messages are related to, I think all the critical ones are event 41's. It has been months since I installed windows 7 pro as opposed to windows 8. I have been babying it by turning it off at night but it will still restart occasionally while in use or just idling even when I do that.
Like I said it doesn't seem to matter what I'm doing, just checking email or playing an intensive game. It works 98% of the time and it hasn't actually happened in more than a month of babying it and using it all day. I also had bought new RAM at once point wanting to upgrade anyway and that did not help, so I don't think it's RAM or PSU.
Some of it might have been my power at my new apartment so I got a new UPS and while it did it's job with helping when the power got too low the restarting thing still happened.
I still think it's a hardware problem, maybe my motherboard. I have almost saved up enough money to take it back in to a different place to have them look at it and was hoping someone here might be able to help me determine the issue before I shell out another $90.
I have been really busy so I haven't had much time to comb the internet for help until now.
Let me know if my PC specs would help.
Thanks in advance!
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