Pc shutting down

Aaron7323 · January 13, 2016

Hi there forum. My Pc seems to randomly shut down but only when I play games. If not I can surf the internet/watch a movie/ listen to music for hours and nothing goes wrong but as soon as I play a game 20 min in it shuts down my pc. It doesn't restart instantly. I have to wait a while to switch back on, before when I try it is unresponsive. Specs are windows 10 , as rock z97 anniversary, pny gtx970, i7 4790, 16gb hyper x ram, transcend ssd.

leelaa14 · January 13, 2016

Hi there forum. My Pc seems to randomly shut down but only when I play games. If not I can surf the internet/watch a movie/ listen to music for hours and nothing goes wrong but as soon as I play a game 20 min in it shuts down my pc. It doesn't restart instantly. I have to wait a while to switch back on, before when I try it is unresponsive. Specs are windows 10 , as rock z97 anniversary, pny gtx970, i7 4790, 16gb hyper x ram, transcend ssd.

I had a problem like this for months, turned out my mobo power cable wasn't inserted properly. Maybe you should double check?

TheAbel · January 13, 2016

Definitely sounds like a PSU issue. Make sure as suggested by leelaa that everything connected correctly.

What kind of PSU are you running? And plzzzz dont tell me microstar.....

Aaron7323 · January 13, 2016

Definitely sounds like a PSU issue. Make sure as suggested by leelaa that everything connected correctly.

What kind of PSU are you running? And plzzzz dont tell me microstar.....

Running a super old 730 watt gigabyte psu will check what model

Aaron7323 · January 13, 2016

Definitely sounds like a PSU issue. Make sure as suggested by leelaa that everything connected correctly.

What kind of PSU are you running? And plzzzz dont tell me microstar.....

Checked it is a gigabyte 730 watt psu model number is GE-E720A-C3

TheAbel · January 15, 2016

Checked it is a gigabyte 730 watt psu model number is GE-E720A-C3

Wich is a decent PSU. still it seems that your system gets unreliable during load. Try running something to put your PC underload and make sure your check your eventlogs afterwards.

http://www.sisoftware.eu/ for example.