Godchildcain

Hey everyone,  a friend of mine sent me here to see if you guys could help me out.

For the last week my pc has been shutting down with no apparant reason.
It all started since i put new parts into my pc (Motherboard, Processor and RAM)
 
I've tried updating all my drivers

Done countless windows reinstalls

even tried w8.1 instead of w10
 
To be honest i don't know what to try anymore.
i'll be putting back my old parts tomorrow to see if i'll still have the problems.


If you guys know anything that might work out, please let me know!


EDIT:  https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qdd88K  Parts list!

Old parts were:

MOBO: ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3
Processor: AMD vishera FX-8320, eight core
Crucial balistix sport 12gb ddr3-1600

I tried that, unfortunately no change.. 
 
I hear that from everyone, but after having multiple people check my new parts against my old parts.. the new parts take less wattage so there should be no problem at all..
good thing i made a (SEMI COMPLETE) pc partpicker list:  https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qdd88K
i'll also edit it into the main post
 
im certain its seated correctly, but i never actually though about the paste! i'll look into that as soon as i can! thanks!

Welcome to the Forum!
 
The most obvious thing to me would be the power supply.
Also out of curiosity, could you list the specs?

i guess it could be a Ram issue, trying the old swap out swap in ram trick and then boot.

Also, what are the components? Full list including how many watts your power supply is. As well as exactly what is happening, for example, does it only crash while gaming? Does it crash every time after being on for 20 minutes? Whatever is going on. That way we can help you trouble shoot the problem a bit better. 

So to clearify that the pc boots correctly?

It's not all about the wattage rating, it's about how old it is, whether it's been abused etcetera (:

Exactly. 

I'm relatively adamant that it's the power supply, the things are that the combined TDPs aren't wholly representative of the actual power draw, that you might be drawing different amounts from different rails than you were before, and that power supplies degrade over time.

If you never thought about the Thermal paste that might very well be your issue, considering that cooler does not come with it pre-applied, you have to put it on yourself(you may have)
 
The only reason why I say that is because I trouble shoot custom built computers on a regular basis in person, what you're describing sounds like the pc is shutting itself off to avoid damage.
 
And I wouldn't throw out the power-supply issue right away, they are very sensitive and can fail at any time for no clear reason.

So I would remove all unnecassary parts and try if it runs stable for an longer time.

adding/removing parts until its stable is a very long and annoying troubleshooting process but will help tell you if it is the psu causing issues.. I recommend using Windows memory diagnostic in the start menu to test the ram, maybe run a stress test on the CPU to see if it overheats and shuts down(not safe if my theory is right about thermal paste), test the drives. there could be a lot of things causing your issue.

The Windows memtest is pretty bad in my experience, I'd recommend memtest86+ instead. Or memetest86+ if you for some reason want to see a rare Pepe on your screen...

Those are just all unexpected shutdown codes it appears, which just confirms what we already know: the system is shutting down/rebooting without the operating system calling for it.

I'm betting on that power supply, here's a YouTube video showing it having ripple in excess of 100mv, which is crazy:
Seriously, that kind of ripple can damage components in the long run, and can cause stability issues by itself, and who knows what else is wrong with that PSU.

Nice find!