PC shuts down and reboots itself, but only on Skyrim?

FAZZG

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Dec 7, 2013
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I've been dealing with this issue for a little while now, and for a while it seemed to be ok, but it has gotten bad again. My PC seems to restart itself, but reboots within a couple of seconds. It only seems to do it in both versions of skyrim, though it seems like it happens more often in Special edition than in the original. as I type this, I'm running furmark, and it has been going for 12 minutes without a reboot. My temperatures seem pretty normal while running skyrim. Thinking it might be PSU, since it's made noise since I got it, but I have some doubts only since it doesn't restart during other games or applications.
Specs are i5 4670k
GIGABYTE Z87X-UD3H
Seagate 2Tb hdd
samsung 1tb hdd
Kingston 120gb ssd
EVGA GTX780 acx
2x8gb Corsair ram
corsair hx750 psu
 
Solution
My Skyrim (normal and SE) never caused random reboot, only CTDs, if I did something wrong with the mods.
You have a mostlikely a HW issues e.g. proc overtemp, PSU issues, etc.
I would first monitor how the temps are during gaming.