PC keeps rebooting

[2FOX]

Hey guys. I my pc keeps rebooting without giving me any reason. This started to happen after I installed and played Dragonage Inquisition. But the thing is it doesn't reboot when I am playing the game it reboots when I am in desktop. It reboots when I am in the login screen of windows. It reboots sometimes when I am at the msi logo. I initially thought it was my gpu overheating but I doubt that's the case. I replaced the driver many times but no fixes. Currently i am using 14.100.0.0. It gave me no problems yesterday. I played 6+ of Dragonage. But this morning it crashed 5 times. All in the login in screen of windows. Also I am pretty sure the inside of my PC is clean. Although i sprayed the inside of my pc and my gpu with "dust off". Its basically compressed air in a can.Please help

My specs:

i5 4670k

r9 290 sapphire trix (Bought June of 2014)

Msi z87 g45.

[_Dmitri_]

I can only think of 3 issues... psu failing, driver failure or your ram might be bad. if you can get your hands on some new ram and or a new psu you could test this to see if its any of those 2. For the drivers you could try to roll them back to an older version to see if its a driver problem.

[2FOX]

well I had gotten a few error msg about my memory being low. I have a 8gb vengeance pro. And a corsair cx750. I think the psu is prob fine. Will getting another 8gb fix the problem. Also all of the parts are only a year old.

[LabRat]

I would remove the heat sink from the cpu. clean up and reapply new thermal paste and reassemble. Are you using the stock heat sink? or an after market heat sink that attaches the same way the stock on does? and I would do this NOW.  The cpu could be trying to save itself.

[2FOX]

I am using the stock cooler. Should I order an aftermarket cooler. Wtb the low memory msgs about my ram.

[LabRat]

the idea of pulling the heat sink and doing what I suggested is to try and eliminate a hot cpu and poorly mounted heat sink. buying an after market heat sink is up to you. and again, you should do this NOW! stop using the machine until you do. better safe than sorry.

[2FOX]

Ok thx. Will try it tomorrow and see what happens.

[soarwiththesky]

You could try any previous restore points that you might have created before you installed or played your game. (Not that the game is the problem)

But you can rollback your pc before this problem occurred if anything like any driver failures or something happened during your point.

[_Dmitri_]

I had that restart problem too and for me it was my ram...

[2FOX]

Well I ordered some thermal compound and rubbing alcohol. I am still using my pc. I have not played dragon age inquisition and my pc has yet to crash. Although my cpu fan does sound louder than usual. Will update as soon as I get my stuff.

[2FOX]

Yep it happened again. Gonna use the thermal compound and see what's up. Otherwise gonna get some new ram. Also I am not interested in overclocking yet but the noise from the fans is annoying me a little I must say. What would you guys suggest as a cooler? My budget is around 50 pounds. I was thinking about something like the h55. It's now 47.99.

[Mentalguy]

Yep it happened again. Gonna use the thermal compound and see what's up. Otherwise gonna get some new ram. Also I am not interested in overclocking yet but the noise from the fans is annoying me a little I must say. What would you guys suggest as a cooler? My budget is around 50 pounds. I was thinking about something like the h55. It's now 47.99.

whats your temps?

[_Dmitri_]

If it crashes during ram intensive operations then it is 99.9% a ram problem. Perhaps you could do some experimenting.  

[2FOX]

whats your temps?

They are below 45 C as far as I can tell.

 

If it crashes during ram intensive operations then it is 99.9% a ram problem. Perhaps you could do some experimenting.  

Prior to the crash I had received several msgs telling me that memory was low. Now it just reboots no msgs. I am switching both my rams to figure out which 1 is causing the problem.

[2FOX]

I started with just 1 of the dimm. Used the 4gb did not reboot. Opened a lot of program played league. Made sure that the memory usage was over 90% nothing happened (XMP enabled). Temps all low. No reboot nothing. Tried with the other one. Same thing. I then put both the dimms back on but not in their original slots. Temps were high 52 when I was on my bios. Opened the MSi command cetre temps kept on rising to 65+. Closed it down temps went down. Now it sayz 37 on the command centre. I doubt its my RAM.