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Started by acecold3 | | 5 answers
inexplicable PC shutdowns
By now my pc has been shutting itself down for about 2 months. After a HDD RMA, a PSU RMA, a fresh application of thermal paste and countless virus scans and the like Its still shutting down, and I'm sitting here wondering what the heck it could be. Any thoughts?
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October 12, 2014 2:21:38 PM

Another update: I removed my CD drive's SATA cable and I got past the log in screen and was able to do some things for a bit before it shut itself off. Now It shuts off as soon as I reach the log in screen, like before, with or without the SATA cable plugged in.
October 9, 2014 5:04:12 PM

I used my board's memory check utility and it came back fine last time i used it. If you want me to use some downloadable test, my pc doesn't stay on long enough to do so
Update: Today I swapped out my computer's only RAM stick with RAM from a working computer and it still wouldn't make it past the windows log in screen before shutting down. I'm beginning to suspect my mother board.
October 9, 2014 4:59:45 PM

Did you check the ram with memtest?

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