PC keeps auto-restarting without warning

RayThePurple · October 28, 2019

This is extremely annoying. New PC, built it myself about a month ago, no prior experience.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hKtbtp Windows 10 pro. Had some kinks to work out in the first week but it's been pretty good since and the last 2 days it's just restarted a lot without warning. No blue screens.

It's not the CPU temp - been monitoring with Core Temp, it has restarted with the temp 50-60C.

I thought it might be Windows updater because of what the reliability control panel shows here

See? Windows Defender updates happened after some bunches of restarts... so I turned off windows updater...least I think I did. All the 'view technical details' info says is 'the previous shut down was unexpected.' I went to Services App, and disabled Windows updater and Windows Update Medic Service. It shows them as disabled/manual, and not currently running. I set my 'active hours' from 9 a.m. to 1a.m. to keep it from doing any auto updates/restarts in that period. I also set my network connection to Metered. I've tried sfc /scannow, no integrity violations. It has happened while watching TV with VLC...well that was more of a freeze then I pressed restart, reinstalled VLC.

It has happened while streaming games on twitch (several times in between matches of Apex Legends, but not in the middle of a match). it has happened while running games off-stream. it has happened while all that was running was discord and Firefox trying to solve the problem.

Tried setting SOC to 1.15...then it restarted as soon as I hit Go Live on Streamlabs with Apex running. Someone recommended this forum, thinks the PSU may be insufficient. I was able to stream Apex for almost 5 straight hours just 8 days ago without a problem though...

edit; Just tried some stress testing, simultaneously ran Prime95 Small FFT and Unigine Valley at max settings and my PC didn't restart.

RayThePurple · October 30, 2019

please...it's getting so bad. it has restarted when all I had open was control panel... then it restarted before I even got control panel open...I hadn't opened ANYthing yet. then windows didn't load properly and I got some troubleshooting thing it asked if I wanted to reset and if I wanted to keep my files I just hit continue and then it was now and then I don't know what happened.