Update (7/25/19):
It's been more than a year now since I got a new PSU (and had the motherboard damages by the faulty PSU repaired).
-"Computer restarting under heavy load" is completely fixed, and has not happened once since then, no matter how intense the workload was.
-"LiveKernelEvent 141" is still a thing, but AFAIK does not cause me issues (at most Firefox behaves weirdly, but I switched to chrome anyway). It's proven to be not related (at least in my case) to the issue above.
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The computer will restart when in heavy load. Eventually happens in games with Vsync off, games that use something like +45% of my GPU's load, or Furmark. This is not an instant thing and it takes seconds to minutes for it to happen. Furmark will restart it in less than 2 minutes (though this has not always been the case, I'll go into that in a bit).
This "restart" means it will completely shut down (no noise, fans stop spinning, LED lights turn off), and then after about 3 seconds it will turn itself on again. Windows sees it as a simple "unexpected shutdown" in the reliability monitor.
The other issue is that Firefox will, on rare occasions, render the page white. This will either require a full restart of the browser or ends up disappearing seconds after. Without fail, looking at the reliability history when this happens will show a hardware error for LiveKernelEvent, code 141. I have a compilation of these in here.
Neither of the issues can be reproduced with just the CPU, regardless of my past 2 months using it that way. Based on that and searches I made on similar issues, I thought it was the GPU and sent it to the RMA, but they couldn't reproduce the issue themselves and just sent it back to me.
Temperatures are seemingly normal. The CPU never went over 65°C. The GPU never went over 78°C, including +5min Furmark tests. Without these tests, the GPU never went over 70°C (the +5 min tests were made at a time in which Furmark wouldn't ever restart my PC like that. At some point it suddenly became unable to survive even 3 minutes, some restarting in less than 10 seconds)
There are also rare cases in which, instead of a restart, the PC does stay on but the screen is black and it requires a reboot. More notably, I can hear loud noises from a fan in these moments, even though there doesn't seem to be any temperature issues.
I am currently suspecting it could only be the PSU. Any help is appreciated and sorry for the wall of text. Below are my current specs, just in case they're useful.
CPU: Intel i5-6600
GPU: EVGA GTX 1070
RAM: 8GB DDR4
SSD: 480GB (Corsair Force LE)
PSU: EVGA 600W 80 Plus Bronze
MOBO: ASRock H170M Pro4S
It's been more than a year now since I got a new PSU (and had the motherboard damages by the faulty PSU repaired).
-"Computer restarting under heavy load" is completely fixed, and has not happened once since then, no matter how intense the workload was.
-"LiveKernelEvent 141" is still a thing, but AFAIK does not cause me issues (at most Firefox behaves weirdly, but I switched to chrome anyway). It's proven to be not related (at least in my case) to the issue above.
Original post:
The computer will restart when in heavy load. Eventually happens in games with Vsync off, games that use something like +45% of my GPU's load, or Furmark. This is not an instant thing and it takes seconds to minutes for it to happen. Furmark will restart it in less than 2 minutes (though this has not always been the case, I'll go into that in a bit).
This "restart" means it will completely shut down (no noise, fans stop spinning, LED lights turn off), and then after about 3 seconds it will turn itself on again. Windows sees it as a simple "unexpected shutdown" in the reliability monitor.
The other issue is that Firefox will, on rare occasions, render the page white. This will either require a full restart of the browser or ends up disappearing seconds after. Without fail, looking at the reliability history when this happens will show a hardware error for LiveKernelEvent, code 141. I have a compilation of these in here.
Neither of the issues can be reproduced with just the CPU, regardless of my past 2 months using it that way. Based on that and searches I made on similar issues, I thought it was the GPU and sent it to the RMA, but they couldn't reproduce the issue themselves and just sent it back to me.
Temperatures are seemingly normal. The CPU never went over 65°C. The GPU never went over 78°C, including +5min Furmark tests. Without these tests, the GPU never went over 70°C (the +5 min tests were made at a time in which Furmark wouldn't ever restart my PC like that. At some point it suddenly became unable to survive even 3 minutes, some restarting in less than 10 seconds)
There are also rare cases in which, instead of a restart, the PC does stay on but the screen is black and it requires a reboot. More notably, I can hear loud noises from a fan in these moments, even though there doesn't seem to be any temperature issues.
I am currently suspecting it could only be the PSU. Any help is appreciated and sorry for the wall of text. Below are my current specs, just in case they're useful.
CPU: Intel i5-6600
GPU: EVGA GTX 1070
RAM: 8GB DDR4
SSD: 480GB (Corsair Force LE)
PSU: EVGA 600W 80 Plus Bronze
MOBO: ASRock H170M Pro4S
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