HunterKiller94

this would be an amazing new years gift!!

i know what the problem was!! the motherboard!! the gigabyte z97x-soc is crap. STAY AWAY FROM IT!! go for anything else but that damn thing. i know the MB was the problem because i replaced it with another z97x-soc and the shutdown issue was still there, i replaced it with the Maximus VII Hero and its going great. even with a big overclock in place. so again i say, AVOID THE Z97X-SOC!!

yeah i've been running stock for a good while now. even with the new PSU it still shuts down... till now it seems. i've uninstalled the realtek audio driver and so far no problem. i've let the computer stay on for a few hours now and it stayed on... if it was the damn audio driver i swear i'll soot myself in the foot! i've replaced $500 worth of components to fix it. (thankfully i didn't have to pay for them. the shop i got the parts from replaced them)

problem still isn't completely solved yet. i've gotten a new PSU so we'll see how it goes. god i hate pc's

i think I've finally figured it out!! the MB has 2 12v slots. one 8 pin and a 4 pin. i managed to call gigabyte and ask them if its ok to plug it in and they said yes do it, it improves stability. and they said if you do OC to the cpu leave the CPU voltage on auto. since i did that its loads better!! i'll be another couple of days of running it till i'm 100% sure its fixed so i'll be back to let you all know

i haven't tried without gpu yet. and wont till tomorrow due to being drunk at this moment i definitely will try the power supply tomorrow as well. thankfully i have a spare 750w i used with the old computer that i know works

I've had the MB replaced and the problem is still happening

i've updated it, no improvement, then changed from Bios 1 to 2, dual Bios MB. no improvement

it died while i was playing assassins creed it did the usual, die and restart in about 3 seconds. i turned off the OC and played the game under the same conditions and no problems.

just did something a little different guy!! instead of going into the bios to do any form of OC or change t something i used a program you use on the desktop to OC the CPU to where i normally would and it didn't go bat s#*t crazy on me. i'll do a few more tests and get back to you!

hmm ok, I'll rip the GPU out tomorrow and see how it goes (its 1:08am where i am, and im to sleepy to go messing around in there lol)

we'll start with the RMA then priest lol sadly in that case i'm gonna have to buy a new motherboard if i send this little turd off because i need my computer to keep me sane haha

i did think it was the ram at one point but after using Prime95 to test the ram for a good while and all was good i focused more on the MB which is still my number one suspect, because whenever i go into it and change something, even a fan speed and it dies at random. and for the past day or so the defaults cause random death. i can't win with it. OC and goes insane, leave it at default and it'll die randomly.

ok I'll give it a go. also the computer chucked another fit about 10 minutes ago. wouldn't let me in the bios, and i basically had to fight the system to get to work again. this thing is cursed!

actually i haven't... do you think that could be the possible cause of the issue? I've run a lot of benchmarks for the GPU and no issues came up. i even run assassins creed at max without an issue