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Hey guys, I recenty ran into a problem where my computer gets stuck into a restart loop [video attached]. On pressing the power button, all the fans ramp up, rgb light up etc but it never goes to the boot screen. I hear a clicking or "tripping" sound as if the psu has shut down and then it starts up again and repeat. If I leave it off for a few minutes and turn it back on it will still do the restart once but on the second try it will go to the boot screen. My specs I7 9700k Gigabyte gaming oc 2070 super. Gigabyte gaming x z390 motherboard. 500GB Samsung Nvme ssd. 1TB samsung sata ssd. Antec neoeco 650 watt powersupply. Thermaltake TH240 aio. 2 * Arctic 120mm PWM fans. What I have tried so far: 1. Reseating the ram. 2. Rolling back all the overclocks. 3. Resetting BIOS. 4. Resetting windows and doing a fresh install. I have not tried any hardware swapping because I do not have the necessary parts [PSU etc]. I need help with diagnosing whether it's an issue with the power supply or the motherboard. Once I do get into windows everything works fine. I have been playing Cybperunk for the last 4 days and the PC has never crashed on me or randomly restarted. The GPU is boosting normally as it would and the CPU sticks to the 4.6GHz speed under load, the fans are also running fine. It's just the turning on part that seems to have some issue. Thanks for your help. 2143096206_ImagefromiOS.mp4

So I'm working on a friends computer, it's a CyberpowerPC with a Ryzen 5 3600, Gigabyte B450M DS3H WiFi, 16GB 3000mhz Crucial Ballistix memory, and a MSI Ventus GTX 1660. It started to not post and the PSU which is the EVGA GD Gold 600w was making a double click every time you try to power it on and will also come on for 2 seconds and then power off immediately repeatedly just on off, on off, over and over while double clicking. He thought it was his PSU so he replaced it, it now boots into Windows but will randomly restart without warning and without a BSOD or any sort of log or error message. I have tested the old PSU that was having the issues with a both a PSU tester and by hooking it up in another gaming rig and it worked fine with both so I'm positive it is not the PSU. So far these are the steps I have done. Bios update to the latest available. All drivers and chipset updates. Reseated the CPU. Ran Memtest86 (Restarts randomly while running the test, no memory errors in logs) Tested in Winpe (Also restarts randomly) Removed motherboard and components from case and have them on a motherboard box for bench testing. Issues persist all the same as normal however the EVGA PSU that would just click and power on and off is now posting and starting to go into Windows before it clicks and powers off and on again instead of every few seconds. As of right now I'm leaning towards the motherboard or CPU being the issue, as looking through other forums and posts with similar issues have had their issue fixed by replacing one or both of them. My next step is to test with another CPU to see if the issue still persists with a completely different CPU. Please let me know if you have had a similar issue or have a suggestion.

I'm trying to repair my friend's PC but every time I start it, it goes in an infinite restart cycle. It keeps restarting without showing any BIOS splash screen. Every hardware was working earlier but after restarting the PC, this happened. I can't figure out what is the problem. System specification. Intel 3220 Gigabyte GA-H61M-D2H 2 x 2GB Gskill Ripjaws Radeon RX 460 Samsung 320GB HDD Corsair VS 450 PSU

I have a New Ryzen Build and I build it like 15 days ago. I have a AMD RYZEN 1500X with Wraith Spire MSI GTX 1050Ti Gaming X 4G MSI B350M VDH 8GB Hyper X Ram Cooler Master MassWatt Lite 500W WD Blue 1TB 4 Case Fans Corsair Carbide SPEC 02 Case It worked great for like 10 days and after that it suddenly started to shut off randomly, sometimes it shuts off at the start and sometimes it shuts off when I boot in to Windows and idle for a while. My Temp are : CPU - 45°C idle & MOBO 36°C idle ( Temps checked in BIOS. I have done no overclocking at all and my room temp are fairly good. I think it's a PSU failure or overheating issue. BTW sometime when my PC shuts off my Mouse & keyboard lights start to twich or flash for a while and it looks like that some one is plugging the in and out rapidly. My PC boots into Windows perfectly but doesn't last long as it shuts off in a while. I tried to unplug and plug back cables but it didn't work. I tried reapplying Thermal Paste but that also did not work. I Reinstalled the GPU and RAM but that also has no effect on the situation.

I just built a new PC a few days ago with windows 10 and my applications have been crashing ever since. I updated everything and booted the official windows 10 from the Microsoft website. Everything is fine 90% of the time but sometimes my applications randomly stop responding, and during this time I cannot open anything or do anything, even if I restart or shutdown my PC it gets stuck on the restarting or shutting down loop. My specs: PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $167.00 @ B&H CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U12S 55 CFM CPU Cooler $59.95 @ Amazon Motherboard MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC ATX AM4 Motherboard $415.99 @ Amazon Memory Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory $89.99 @ Amazon Storage Western Digital Blue 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive $114.99 @ B&H Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $43.99 @ Best Buy Video Card MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8 GB Video Card Case Corsair iCUE 220T RGB Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case $109.99 @ Best Buy Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $1001.90 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-06-14 17:18 EDT-0400 Newly built PC.

Hello to you all, guys! Firstly pardon for the bad EnglishFor these last couple of weeks i was having some major problem with my laptop, it's just keeps on restart and restarting for 4-5 times before it finally stabilized. The shut down point usually is just after entering desktop or 3-5 minutes after entering desktop,sometimes it doesn't get beyond windows loading screen. For this i actually does have the solution which is quickly pressing F2 and entering the BIOS and just wait for 10-20 minutes and it works, the Laptop finally stabilized. And this restart loop is usually accompanied by the Harddisk Check which supposed to repair the problem but after a couple times of going through the disk check over and over again it becomes apparent that this is not the cure so i usually just skip the check.Today though was entirely different, i was a bit impatient with my laptop because i was doing some academic works so i skip entering the bios and proceed to boot in the usual way and..... My laptop suddenly have gone haywire with uncontrollable restart loop for approx 2,5 hours and then thankfully it stabilized for 7-8 hours before the same bloody loop happened again for these last 3-4 hours. This laptop is having the Windows 7 home premium, I used this Acer for the last 6 years now and amazingly apart from these last couple of weeks it runs perfectly fine and there are no major problems as far as I'm concerned. I'm so at lost with this problem, I really need the help from you guys, the Professionals!Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated, Thank you!

This is the second post i make since in the last one i've been told to get a new psu, got a brand new gold psu 3rd tier 650w, along with my setup Intel Core i5 7400,Patriot DDR4 2400,ASRock lga 1151 which claims to support i5 up to 7th generation, I hear no beeps meaning i've set everything correctly, yes i inserted the speaker, i could not possibly shorty anything as i've used 2 antistatic bands on both hands,i use 8 pins for cpu port, i boot with no gpu, i reset the Cmos battery each time i boot it up IN SHORT my pc boots up for few seconds and then starts restarting and loops. i am really frustrated at that point i dont understand how does this whole thing work, i spent a year doing research to avoid some common issues, i've read the no post to check list at least 3 times, please any help will be highly appreciated folks ;-;

So I gotta request from my older brother who didn’t have much time and he want me to take his full tower pc and transfer almost every component into mid tower case we had extra at home empty. I said cool and for that he didn’t need 1155 motherboard i7 Intel Chip so I swap it with my 1155 motherbord i5 Intel Chip into mine for i7 Chip because I play more gaming than my older brother. When I put all the component into the mid tower with the i5 chip it keep restart every few second. It been awhile for me to figure it out. I disassembled everything on mid tower pc and going to work on it tomorrow because I was working and transferring the pc part since afternoon. Please let me know why I have this problem of the restart loop.

I have built a PC today.I have a 6700k, Gigabyte Z170 k3-eu motherboard and 2x8gb of cosair lpx 2666mhz RAM.When i boot then PC with both of the ram sticks, the motherboard's light turn on, fans start spinning, no lights on the mouse, keyboard nor monitor turn on.After a while the PC will restart and keep doing it, the PC just restart loops. When i boot with just 1 stick of RAM, the PC works fine and it posts without issues.I have tried the other stick and it works fine.I tried putting with both of the RAM sticks in different slots and the same issue. I have managed to get both of the RAM sticks working in slot 3&4, 1&2 dont seem to work at all.Any help would be appreciated.Thank you in advance

Hi, I have a one month old installed system with: Asus Ranger VIII Intel i5 6600k CPU A Data XPG 2400 Mhz PC4-19200 4x4 GB DDR4 Corsair H100i GTX Thermaltake 630W SE Intel SSD 530 120GB Geforce GTX 970 G1 Gaming and yesterday i got a BSOD and system reset and could not boot into windows anymore, i got a lot of BSOD errors and Q Codes including AE AD 04 A9 and a lot more but for now it is constantly in a restart loop or just stuck with Q Code 04 and the orange BOOT_DEVICE_LED always on. And sometimes i get a message about setting the RAID correctly in the situations where i do not have any RAID connected devices. I am desperate as i have a lot of work to do and i alredy lost some projects from the past days i was working on the SSD as i erased the SSD along all other advices i got online but the bios keeps resetting when trying to access it and when i get to boot choice and i select either USB or DVD Drive with the windows installers the windows logo shows up but them the system restarts and keep showing code 04. I changed CSM and SECURE BOOT settings and still nothing worked. I removed RAM one by one and tried to enter BIOS and i managed to upgrade BIOS from 0401 firmware to last upgrade 1201 and now UEFI BIOS shows the correct BIOS version but still the pc keeps restarting in BIOS or stuck with Q Code 04. I cleared CMOS removed battery and re-installed batery. I dissasembled and re-assembled the system and the cables one by one and i checked them properly one by one. I also tried with a different SSD and a different HDD one by one. I removed all cables and replaced SATA and PSU cables with new ones and still same issues. I removed GPU and tried with mainboard HDMI and DISPLAY PORT with 2 different monitors for each. I tried with Windows 8.1 and 10 CD installers and USB drives created with WINDOWS DVD/USB Tool and RUFUS and POWERISO too and nothing booted and still the same error so let me know what i can do! I tried with a different RAM stick specified in the MB manual and still the same Q Code 04 error or showing the Windows logo and then BSOD with a lot of different errors and then restart loop again. I tried with a new PSU and still the same. The system was running Windows 8.1 Pro updated wednesday with the latest updates and i use Bitdfender Antivirus and i actually found some treaths before updating windows last week so that is why i updated windows, maybe this might have something to do i don`t know i really am out of options right now. At this moment the 2 pieces that might be broken are either the MB or the CPU so what do you think? Should i try something else or should i RMA both? Thank you in advance for your answers, GTRobert

Yesterday my phone started acting very strange - constantly crashing apps and acting very slow. I decided to restart my phone, as this usually solves all issues. However, my phone wouldn't reboot after this, and endlessly restarted. I looked for a solution online, finding and following several different guides. This includes attempting to boot in safe mode, which failed, and wiping my cache, which failed. Somehow, just before I was preparing to factory reset my phone, it suddenly booted correctly. I backed up my phone and factory reset it, which solved the issue for the next few hours. Suddenly, the next day, my phone's screen glitches out (a tanish set of lines appeared on the screen) and crashes. Now it's stuck in a reboot loop once again, one a factory reset has not fixed. What can I do?

As stated in the title, my cousin's newly built PC is stuck in a restart loop. It worked perfectly at first (for a week), but last week this loop started, if it is of any help the last time he turned it off before this happened he used the switch on the wall rather than through the computer. We have both tried to troubleshoot the best we can but all we could confirm is that it's either the PSU, motherboard or CPU at fault as we disconnected everything (I.e. RAM, HDD, GPU etc.) and it kept restarting. He is unable to return all 3 components, so we'd really appreciate it it any one could give is some advice on how to test them separately. Thanks, Colm. Edit: Completely forgot to add that the PC does NOT restart when there is no display plugged in

Here is the problem, When I launch my PC it goes into a restart loop with installing updates and un installing them after they fail, Eventually I will get into my PC but its just annoying. I think the updates themselves are broken because I had a power cut while on my PC and it may of screwed them up while I was downloading them . Can someone explain to me how to remove the pending updates please? Ill be very grateful I have attached a screenshot of my update history if that helps.