Pc Rebooting Problems

Sonicchick123 · July 7, 2014

Ok so here is my issue which started about three weeks ago. I first got my pc back in March which worked fine until now. It was winter time back then and my pc was running Crysis 3, COD: Ghosts, Minecraft, AC4 and every other game perfectly fine with no issues at all. Then I realized when it started to get warmer my pc would get hotter and hotter. Back in the winter on my case the max the tempature ever went was 23.0C but now in the summer the max tempature it said so far was 35.3C. The only game I could run on my pc was Minecraft. Then when I tried to run COD: Ghosts 10 minutes into playing my pc reboots ( no BSOD or any error messages ) except the windows shutdown to prevent information loss and if I wanted to run in safe mode or normaly. Then when cleaning my pc to try and fix the problem I accidently pressed a button on the back called clear cmos and I had to reinstall windows, overclock and download drivers all over. Then I decided to take out the ram and put it back in it but only 12gb or ram would show up and not 16gb. So I put the ram sticks in one by one and I reliazed one of the ram slots didn't recognize my ram so kept the ram stick out of that slot and ran the pc and it showed 12gb of ram.

My pc specs are:

Intel I7 4820K 3.7ghz (Overclocked to 4.2)

16gb of Xpg Adata Ram

1000 Watt Raidmark PSU With 80 Plus Gold

Msi GTX 770 2gb

Asrock X79 Extreme 4 Motherboard

2Tb Western Digital Hard Drive

4 Case Fans

Stock CPU Fan

Also when not playing games my GPU is at 46C and when playing COD: Ghosts my processor highest tempature was 61C and my GPU highest tempature was at 81C.

In the winter I had no problems at all so I don't know what the problem is now.

All help is greatly appreciated and thank you in advanc

SolvingJunk · July 7, 2014

Your temps are fine, so it shouldn't be thermal issue. But having a bad RAM slot means you've got a bad MoBo, and even if you do solve the rebooting issues, you should try and get a new one if it's still under warranty. As for some immediate tests, try flashing the BIOS to see if it's a MoBo issue not related to hardware. Also, check your logs to see if it's something in/on Windows that's causing the crash. Next time it happens, note the time, and after the reboot check the event viewer asap. Look for errors around the time of the crash and see if Windows logged any issues right before the crash or after the reboot.

Good luck, and report back any findings!

Sonicchick123 · July 7, 2014

I think its the motherboard so tommorow ill flash my mono and if that doesn't work ill send back the system to the company for repairs. Ill see what happens tommorrow.