Hello everyone,
I'm going insane trying to figure out how to fix my computer. A few weeks ago when installing a new video card, I shorted out a sata port and I wasn't sure what other components on my system also were messed up. Everything was fine for a few days but then I started getting random restarts within 0-30 minutes of running certain games (HOTS, dishonored 2) yet some games never seem to have this problem (Deus Ex). I've since replaced the video card, the motherboard and the PSU. I have not replaced the RAM, CPU, or HDD's but I've run a ton of tests (MemTest 86, CPU stress tests, SeaTools for HDD) and found no issues on any of them. Stress tests have CPU and GPU temps staying under 70C.
Sometimes when the computer restarts I get a bluescreen and I've looked over those logs yet the only consistent thing I found was ntoskrnl.exe and hal.dll which my research suggested are too vague to be helpful. The error in the event viewer is always Kernel-Power 41 task category 63, which unfortunately also seems to be too vague to help a lot.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been at this for over a week now and I'm running out of ideas except for totally rebuilding the computer and starting over, which is obviously not ideal. My next idea is to reinstall Windows 10, but if it's a hardware issue like I think it is, I'm not sure how that helps.
My build
msi z97 gaming motherboard
intel i7 4770k
corsair rm 750
corsair h80i watercooler
1070 GTX
I have another issue which is most likely related but I'm not sure:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3246102/msi-z97-gaming-displays.html
I'm going insane trying to figure out how to fix my computer. A few weeks ago when installing a new video card, I shorted out a sata port and I wasn't sure what other components on my system also were messed up. Everything was fine for a few days but then I started getting random restarts within 0-30 minutes of running certain games (HOTS, dishonored 2) yet some games never seem to have this problem (Deus Ex). I've since replaced the video card, the motherboard and the PSU. I have not replaced the RAM, CPU, or HDD's but I've run a ton of tests (MemTest 86, CPU stress tests, SeaTools for HDD) and found no issues on any of them. Stress tests have CPU and GPU temps staying under 70C.
Sometimes when the computer restarts I get a bluescreen and I've looked over those logs yet the only consistent thing I found was ntoskrnl.exe and hal.dll which my research suggested are too vague to be helpful. The error in the event viewer is always Kernel-Power 41 task category 63, which unfortunately also seems to be too vague to help a lot.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been at this for over a week now and I'm running out of ideas except for totally rebuilding the computer and starting over, which is obviously not ideal. My next idea is to reinstall Windows 10, but if it's a hardware issue like I think it is, I'm not sure how that helps.
My build
msi z97 gaming motherboard
intel i7 4770k
corsair rm 750
corsair h80i watercooler
1070 GTX
I have another issue which is most likely related but I'm not sure:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3246102/msi-z97-gaming-displays.html
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