Computer randomly clicks off

[PerfectTemplar]

I hear a click, I think it's probably from the PSU? And at the same time the whole thing just dies, off no warning. Then it starts to power back on by itself. Is this a power panic from the PSU? A shortage or something.

 

It's not the wall socket or power board I have, I understand this can damage my components if it happens too much.

 

TL;DR Computer makes click sound, turns off. Then boots back up by itself.

[dadasmithywinkle]

I hear a click, I think it's probably from the PSU? And at the same time the whole thing just dies, off no warning. Then it starts to power back on by itself. Is this a power panic from the PSU? A shortage or something.

 

It's not the wall socket or power board I have, I understand this can damage my components if it happens too much.

 

TL;DR Computer makes click sound, turns off. Then boots back up by itself.

It may be your PSU, yeah. What is the Wattage and what hardware are you running?

[PerfectTemplar]

It may be your PSU, yeah. What is the Wattage and what hardware are you running?

It's in my signature 

 

i7 3770K - H110 - ASUS P8Z77 V-PRO - 850W Corsair PSU - GTX 980 - 16GB HyperX Beast 1600MHz - Intel 240GB SSD

 

[nj4ck]

I've had this problem several times. Its usually caused by a loose cable, incorrectly installed RAM or a bad mount of the CPU cooler. The best way to handle it is to simply unplug everything, then put it back together.

[PerfectTemplar]

I've had this problem several times. Its usually caused by a loose cable, incorrectly installed RAM or a bad mount of the CPU cooler. The best way to handle it is to simply unplug everything, then put it back together.

I'll give that a go now. I can't be fucked remounting the CPU cooler right now but I will if reseating the ram and securing the power cables doesn't work. It might be a while before I know results because it happens randomly. I can play a game for 5 hours and it won't happen then I can browse LTT for 5 seconds and it will.

[PerfectTemplar]

I've had this problem several times. Its usually caused by a loose cable, incorrectly installed RAM or a bad mount of the CPU cooler. The best way to handle it is to simply unplug everything, then put it back together.

Alright, an update.

 

This is happening less but has still happened a few times. I used Furmark and IntelBurnTest a few times to see if I could force it to happen myself. I simply cannot. I tried jiggling the cable and nothing, I changed the cable and power board and basically reassembled my PC. This is happening a lot less than it was but it is still turning off randomly in any task. I launched Battlefield: Hardline and instantly did it. I launch Chrome at one point and it did it. Before, I literally did nothing and was sitting on the desktop and it happened.

 

I have run Malwarebytes, Avast scan, AVG scan for good merit and I don't go on dodgy websites or torrent any applications. I can only think it's the PSU acting up randomly although I seem to not be able to recreate the issue manually by running anything stressful. It's really annoying.

[Visler7000]

Try runing this on it for at least an hour if it reports any errors take a screen shot of it.

 

Make it test your ram cpu and 2d 3d also add all of your drives to the test.

 

http://www.passmark.com/download/bit_download.htm

[JTB123]

I recently had this very same problem and the culprit was the CPU cooler had come away at one its corners. So if you haven't tried the cooler that would be my next move, remove it and apply new paste and make sure it's secured properly. 

 

I thought it could be my PSU as well and I tried literally everything under the sun to try and fix it and it never occurred to me it could have been the cooler.

 

Have you tried running coretemp or something similar just to check what kind of heat the components are running at? 

[PerfectTemplar]

Try runing this on it for at least an hour if it reports any errors take a screen shot of it.

 

Make it test your ram cpu and 2d 3d also add all of your drives to the test.

 

http://www.passmark.com/download/bit_download.htm

Will do this in the morning, it's 1 am atm so I'm going to bed. TY for that though.

 

 

I recently had this very same problem and the culprit was the CPU cooler had come away at one its corners. So if you haven't tried the cooler that would be my next move, remove it and apply new paste and make sure it's secured properly. 

 

I thought it could be my PSU as well and I tried literally everything under the sun to try and fix it and it never occurred to me it could have been the cooler.

 

Have you tried running coretemp or something similar just to check what kind of heat the components are running at? 

Using some Intelburntest I went up to around 70 degrees C. I usually operate around 50 degrees playing games.

[JTB123]

Hmm my CPU was pushing into the high 80's and low 90's which caused my crash. Much like yours though mine would just crash randomly, I could spend a day rendering video and it would be fine but then it would crash during just web browsing. 

 

Have you removed and reattached the heat sink at all? I'd recommend trying that with some fresh thermal paste, then at least you could rule that out. What heat sink are you using by the way? 

[PerfectTemplar]

Hmm my CPU was pushing into the high 80's and low 90's which caused my crash. Much like yours though mine would just crash randomly, I could spend a day rendering video and it would be fine but then it would crash during just web browsing. 

 

Have you removed and reattached the heat sink at all? I'd recommend trying that with some fresh thermal paste, then at least you could rule that out. What heat sink are you using by the way? 

Using H110 AIO. I'll try what you suggested though thanks (:

 

 

Try runing this on it for at least an hour if it reports any errors take a screen shot of it.

 

Make it test your ram cpu and 2d 3d also add all of your drives to the test.

 

http://www.passmark.com/download/bit_download.htm

 

I ran the test and there were no errors. It hasn't happened since yesterday now so I'll see if it happens again..