Computer shuts down after waking from sleep, restarts by itself, shuts down again, then restarts

Coamex

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Ok, I built my PC. It is around a good 6 years old or so. ASUS ROG III MOBO, G.SKILL 12GB RAM. It runs a bit overclocked due to the XMP at 3.4 GHz and the RAM runs at 2000. It has been working wonderfully until now, never any issues. So a couple of days ago I noticed that my mouse froze and the lights on my keyboard went off. I hard-reset my PC and it came back up, everything fine so I did not think much of it. I put it into sleep and when I woke it up, it immediately shut down. As in "click" and then zero, completely off. Then, 3 seconds later, "click" again, and computer starts running and booting, then "click" and completely off again, then "click" and rebooting again. !? The third time it rebooted with the fans profile on normal instead of silent, creating a lot of noise, and when it got to the BIOS interface it gave me the "Overclock failed!" error. I have seen it before, not big deal, so after another reset, I went into the settings and changed the fan profiles back to silent and noticed that it had reset the CPU and RAM speeds out of the XMP mode. I put it back into XMP and back it went to 3.4 GHz and 2000 RAM, I hit save changes and exit and "click", off, reboot, "click", off, reboot, "click", off, reboot, and then it finally loaded normally. I tried putting it back on sleep, it goes fine on sleep, but when I dare to wake it up again..."CLICK" !!! OMG.

Any ideas of what might be happening here? Again, running perfectly for over 6 years now. Any suggestions? It is driving me nuts that I cannot place my computer on sleep as it will end up shutting down multiple times. Thank you for your help!
 

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Also, I just found out that when I properly shut down the PC, then restart it, it will start to boot normally to the point it gets to Windows 10. When it starts loading Windows 10 it eventually freezes. Every single time! The lights on the keyboard go off and mouse also stops working. I have to push the reset button and then it goes into the same cycle described above. This is a nightmare. Can anybody please help to determine what might be at fault? Would it be the RAM, MOBO, or something else? Thank you.
 

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Well, after testing and researching a lot on my own, finally discovered that the issue was due to faulty RAM. G.Skill Ripjaws set DDR3-2000 3X4GB. One of the 3 RAM modules was faulty. I noticed when looking for a different setting and realizing that Windows was only recognizing 8GB of RAM. I pulled one of the modules and was lucky enough to pull the faulty one. No more shutdowns or issues after waking from sleep. Hopefully the RMA process with G.Skill will be good. Thank you.