PC Crisis

[partuchi]

My PC is randomly shutting down. I have ruled out the possibility of a virus and faulty electricity. I am almost 100% sure it is a hardware problem. Any definitive was to check what is going wrong?

[JoshK]

Whats your specs how and many watts is your PSU

[blackadder]

My PC is randomly shutting down. I have ruled out the possibility of a virus and faulty electricity. I am almost 100% sure it is a hardware problem. Any definitive was to check what is going wrong?

pretty much follow most theno post guide. Take everything you don't need out. Test memory with memtest86. Check temps, reset cmos. Check storage. Virus scan. 1 ram stick at a time if you get errors.

[Sauron]

tell us your full specs, what software you're running, when it shuts down and exactly what troubleshooting you've been doing up to this point.

 

btw @partuchi welcome to the forum, please follow your topics!

[Sir Asvald]

My PC is randomly shutting down. I have ruled out the possibility of a virus and faulty electricity. I am almost 100% sure it is a hardware problem. Any definitive was to check what is going wrong?

Specs? 

[CoolaxGaming]

tell us your full specs, what software you're running, when it shuts down and exactly what troubleshooting you've been doing up to this point.

 

btw @partuchi welcome to the forum, please follow your topics!

 

Specs? 

 

Whats your specs how and many watts is your PSU

I assume this is it -

CPU: AMD Athlon™ X4 760K Quad Core Precessor (I;m using the stock cooler)

Motherboard: MSI A78M-E35

Graphics Card: AMD Radeon R7 260X

RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model BLS2KIT4G3D1609DS1S00

Hard Drive: 1TB western digital black and some random 500gb one but they are away under a slot so u can't see them.

Power Supply: 430W Corsair CX430

Case: Corsair Spec-01

[AnnoyedShelf]

My PC is randomly shutting down. I have ruled out the possibility of a virus and faulty electricity. I am almost 100% sure it is a hardware problem. Any definitive was to check what is going wrong?

Check the Windows event log.

[Tjomme]

It's probably overheated, try throwing ice at it.

[partuchi]

MY specs are as follows:

CPU:AMD Athlon X4 760K

Graphics Card: Sapphire radeon R7 260X

8GB crucial ballistix sport ram

MSi A78M-E35 motherboard

1TB WD Black (and some random 500gb i salvaged from my old pc that i have back files on)

430 Watt corsair cx430

corsair spec-01

and windows 8.1 64 bit os

 

 

[CoolaxGaming]

 

MY specs are as follows:

CPU:AMD Athlon X4 760K

Graphics Card: Sapphire radeon R7 260X

8GB crucial ballistix sport ram

MSi A78M-E35 motherboard

1TB WD Black (and some random 500gb i salvaged from my old pc that i have back files on)

430 Watt corsair cx430

corsair spec-01

and windows 8.1 64 bit os

 

 

 

I was right!

[Sauron]

 

MY specs are as follows:

CPU:AMD Athlon X4 760K

Graphics Card: Sapphire radeon R7 260X

8GB crucial ballistix sport ram

MSi A78M-E35 motherboard

1TB WD Black (and some random 500gb i salvaged from my old pc that i have back files on)

430 Watt corsair cx430

corsair spec-01

and windows 8.1 64 bit os

 

what troubleshooting did you do so far?

 

I was right!

 

how did you know lol

[itachipirate]

My PC is randomly shutting down. I have ruled out the possibility of a virus and faulty electricity. I am almost 100% sure it is a hardware problem. Any definitive was to check what is going wrong?

Check for overheating

 

Check your RAM settings in the BIOS. My RAM's SPD originally wasn't detected correctly, so it was being severely overclocked and I got random freezes and shutdowns. After fixing that everything is fine

[partuchi]

My friend is gonna let me swap parts one at a  time with his pc to see exactly which part is dying. Thank you for your help and ill make sure to try evertything suggested.

[partuchi]

Ive full system scanned for viruses 3 times and boot up scanned twice. No malware or viruses detected. 

[CoolaxGaming]

what troubleshooting did you do so far?

 

 

how did you know lol

He asked for help sometime in April, I looked at his past topics

[Sauron]

Ive full system scanned for viruses 3 times and boot up scanned twice. No malware or viruses detected. 

 

it could still be a problem with your windows installation. Run a memtest, with signle sticks if necessary, reset CMOS, make sure nothing is overheating (over 64c for your cpu, over 80 for your gpu), and check if all your power supply cables are connected correctly (in fact, check this first, in these cases it's the cause 70% of the time).