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Computer restating while idle, never in game, no blue screen

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PC Specification:
Desktop
OS: Windows 10 Home 64bit
GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super
CPU: Intel i7-7700k 4.2GHz
Motherboard: B250M Bazooka MS-7a70  DDR4-2400
Bios Version: American Megatrends Inc 1.70 7/03/2018
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 2400MHz (X2 sticks of 8 gig)
Power Supply: Thermal Take Smart 600 wat
Memmory units: M.2 118 gigs (40 gig free) OS is installed, 2TB HHD, 1TB SSD Samsung
Updates and Drivers:  BIOS, Windows, and GPU are all up to date, have not updated anything else

Hey yall, hoping someone here might be able to offer a newb some help :).

Currently I am facing a problem where I have, my desktop will restart when in idle or low power usage, but never when gaming. This issue has been going on for about 5 months but has been more frequent in the past 2 months, where the restarts have been as consistent as 2 - 3 times a day. I have never gotten a blue screen from the restart and when the computer restarts it will be as though it was a regular restart issued by myself.

The following is a list of steps I have tried to resolve the issue.

  • Re-seated RAM from lane 2 & 4 to 1 & 3
  • Replaced RAM 16 gigs (two 8 sticks) to a new set of 16 gigs (two 8 sticks)
  • Replaced GPU Nvidia 1050 TI to MSI 2070 Super
  • Changed power options in "Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options" and changed power plan from "Balanced" to "High Performance"
  • Changed power options in "Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings" made "Turn off Display" to Never and "Put the computer to sleep" to Never
  •  Changed power options in Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings -> "Change advanced settings" and modified the following categories:
    • Turn off Hard disk after set to Never,
    • Sleep
      • Sleep after set to never,
      • Allow hybrid sleep set to Off,
      • Hibernate after set to Never,
    • Processor power management
      • Minimum Processor state set to 100%
  • Virus scan is all good (Just for clarity sake I only game, check email, and pay bills with this PC)
  • Troubleshoot settings -> Power: Resulted in "fixing" a few things.
  • Ran the following lines in CMD 
    • sfc /scannow
    • DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
    • DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
    • DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
  • Went to the settings "Advanced system settings\Advanced\startup and recovery" and disabled "automatically restart" in hopes to get a blue screen.
  • Changed power outlet to see if it was an issue with the houses wiring
  • Removed surge protector to use straight connection from PC to power outlet to see if it was a serge protector problem.

Programs running during crash

  • Discord
  • Twitch app
  • Chrome
  • Steam
  • iCUE (Corsair headset management program)

Sorry for the long post, but I just wanted to make sure anyone reading this had the full picture and knows what has been tried so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I am not afraid to purchase a new CPU, Power supply, or reformat my computer, but I would like to try and fix it before it comes to that.

Hope y'all have a happy New Year and I'm looking forward to any help that can be offered.

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3 minutes ago, Srijan Verma said:

Too long
Was your CPU oc?

 

No, I have not over clocked anything on my computer.

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Could you get a replacement cpu or mobo to see if either of those have gone bad, as per what you have said it might be that your cpu is not getting enough power or is just faulty
try changing only mobo at first then only cpu

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3 minutes ago, Srijan Verma said:

Could you get a replacement cpu or mobo to see if either of those have gone bad, as per what you have said it might be that your cpu is not getting enough power or is just faulty
try changing only mobo at first then only cpu

I currently do not have a way of getting a replacement mobo or CPU without paying for one and possibly returning it. Do you know of any methods I can take to test if the CPU or mobo might be faulty?

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Any friends you could ask for?
You could just go to a vendor and ask if he had any open box items for testing

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