- May 5, 2018
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First off I posted a thread about this on the 5th of May 2018, which now seems to have completely vanished from the forums no matter how I try to find it!
Anyway the current state of the problem I am having is that within a few minutes of having loaded into the operating system the PC crashes with an audible click sound and no blue screen and then restarts itself. Due to my missing thread I no longer have the detailed list of everything I tried, but I tried most of the obvious things such as:
1. Stepping down and then removing CPU overclocking (and removing CMOS battery).
2. Checking temperatures.
3. Different driver versions.
4. Different (known good) graphics card.
5. Different (known good) plug/power wall sockets and extension cables.
6. Re-seating the graphics card.
7. Re-seating the CPU with fresh thermal paste.
8. Booting the PC with almost everything disconnected.
9. I looked at the event logs and all they say are that the shutdown was unexpected.
By the end of all that troubleshooting it was often boot looping before even being able to open the BIOS settings. I stopped using the PC for 6 weeks and then tried a different (known good) PSU the Corsair TX 650W which resolved the issue. Out of interest I then reconnected the originally power supply and everything was still stable.This continued to be the case for over a month. However today I swapped out my GTX 970 for a brand new GTX 1080 and after having connected all my displays and performing a clean install of the latest nvidia drivers I am having the exact same problem as before! When I was previously having the issue I did order a new motherboard to see if that was causing the problem, but when the problem stopped occurring I sent the board back before having used it for testing. If possible I would prefer to avoid trying another motherboard because last time I checked the prices of motherboards that I can use with my CPU are very high.
SYSTEM SPECS
OS: Windows 7 Premium 64-bit
Case: Cooler Master Haf X
Mobo: MSI X99A SLI Plus ATX (SN: 601-7885-070B1509002595)
CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K CPU @ 3.5GHz (6 cores)
Original PSU: Corsair - RM 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX
Testing PSU: Corsair TX 650W
Cooling: Corsair H100i Water Cooling
GPU: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Superclocked Gaming ACX 3.0
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200
SSD1: Samsung - 960 EVO 250GB M.2-2280
SSD2: SanDisk Extreme Pro 480GB, Read 550 MB/s, Write 515 MB/s
HDD1: Seagate - BarraCuda 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM
HDD2: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM
Monitor 1: BenQ - XL2720Z 27.0" 1920x1080 144Hz
Monitors 2 & 3: Iiyama - B2482HD-B1 24.0" 1920x1080 60Hz
VR: Oculus Rift With Touch Controllers & 3 Sensors
Webcam: Logitech HD C270
Headphones: Beyerdynamic DT100 Studio Headset - 400 OHM – Grey
Microphone: Blue Microphones Yeti USB - Blackout Edition
Speakers: Creative GigaWorks T20 Series II
Keyboard: Logitech G110
Mouse: Logitech G502 Proteus Core
Anyway the current state of the problem I am having is that within a few minutes of having loaded into the operating system the PC crashes with an audible click sound and no blue screen and then restarts itself. Due to my missing thread I no longer have the detailed list of everything I tried, but I tried most of the obvious things such as:
1. Stepping down and then removing CPU overclocking (and removing CMOS battery).
2. Checking temperatures.
3. Different driver versions.
4. Different (known good) graphics card.
5. Different (known good) plug/power wall sockets and extension cables.
6. Re-seating the graphics card.
7. Re-seating the CPU with fresh thermal paste.
8. Booting the PC with almost everything disconnected.
9. I looked at the event logs and all they say are that the shutdown was unexpected.
By the end of all that troubleshooting it was often boot looping before even being able to open the BIOS settings. I stopped using the PC for 6 weeks and then tried a different (known good) PSU the Corsair TX 650W which resolved the issue. Out of interest I then reconnected the originally power supply and everything was still stable.This continued to be the case for over a month. However today I swapped out my GTX 970 for a brand new GTX 1080 and after having connected all my displays and performing a clean install of the latest nvidia drivers I am having the exact same problem as before! When I was previously having the issue I did order a new motherboard to see if that was causing the problem, but when the problem stopped occurring I sent the board back before having used it for testing. If possible I would prefer to avoid trying another motherboard because last time I checked the prices of motherboards that I can use with my CPU are very high.
SYSTEM SPECS
OS: Windows 7 Premium 64-bit
Case: Cooler Master Haf X
Mobo: MSI X99A SLI Plus ATX (SN: 601-7885-070B1509002595)
CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K CPU @ 3.5GHz (6 cores)
Original PSU: Corsair - RM 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX
Testing PSU: Corsair TX 650W
Cooling: Corsair H100i Water Cooling
GPU: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Superclocked Gaming ACX 3.0
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200
SSD1: Samsung - 960 EVO 250GB M.2-2280
SSD2: SanDisk Extreme Pro 480GB, Read 550 MB/s, Write 515 MB/s
HDD1: Seagate - BarraCuda 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM
HDD2: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM
Monitor 1: BenQ - XL2720Z 27.0" 1920x1080 144Hz
Monitors 2 & 3: Iiyama - B2482HD-B1 24.0" 1920x1080 60Hz
VR: Oculus Rift With Touch Controllers & 3 Sensors
Webcam: Logitech HD C270
Headphones: Beyerdynamic DT100 Studio Headset - 400 OHM – Grey
Microphone: Blue Microphones Yeti USB - Blackout Edition
Speakers: Creative GigaWorks T20 Series II
Keyboard: Logitech G110
Mouse: Logitech G502 Proteus Core
I have updated the original post to include them. The PSU in the system is a Corsair - RM 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX and the one that I used for testing is a Corsair TX 650W.
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