PC randomly rebooted, help

[Hunched]

No rhyme or reason, was watching twitch and playing Hearthstone. No BSOD, just a sudden restart with no information.

Any chance this was just a freak event that won't happen again? I have basically 0 information to work with towards figuring anything out so that's cool.

Hopefully this is a case of shit just happens sometimes and it doesn't happen again.

 

It could be literally a million things, and if its something like the PSU or a cable it's just going to be a ton of trial and error, and I have no replacement parts to test if it's hardware.

Any suggestions of what to do if this does become a reoccurring issue?

 

[TidaLWaveZ]

Are you overclocked?

 

Was it a clean reboot(did it go straight to post) or did it completely power off and then start back up?

[ben dover kid]

go to event viewer and look whether you have had a critical error or something. most likely you are fine. don't lose your night sleep over this.

[Hunched]

1 hour ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

Are you overclocked?

 

Was it a clean reboot(did it go straight to post) or did it completely power off and then start back up?

I am overclocked, but usually you get a BSOD if that's the case. It was a clean reboot, didn't power completely off.

 

Also, just 10 minutes ago my monitor just went black and turned back on, but my PC kept running, I had audio going and could still hear it and when it came back on it was like nothing happened.

So what the fuck lol... If it's my GPU it's weird how it isn't exhibiting any other stability issues like driver crashes or artifacting. It has to be my GPU since my monitor just restarted now right? Unless they're unrelated and now I just happen to have an unrelated dying monitor or something... fuck.

 

My PSU is SeaSonic and it's only a year old, it should be fine. I have no idea what it could be, but based off what just happened I'd guess it's the gpu or the psu/cables powering it. But I really don't know.

 

*sigh*

 

 

[Jskn]

8 minutes ago, Hunched said:

I am overclocked, but usually you get a BSOD if that's the case. It was a clean reboot, didn't power completely off.

 

Also, just 10 minutes ago my monitor just went black and turned back on, but my PC kept running, I had audio going and could still hear it and when it came back on it was like nothing happened.

So what the fuck lol... If it's my GPU it's weird how it isn't exhibiting any other stability issues like driver crashes or artifacting. It has to be my GPU since my monitor just restarted now right? Unless they're unrelated and now I just happen to have an unrelated dying monitor or something... fuck.

 

My PSU is SeaSonic and it's only a year old, it should be fine. I have no idea what it could be, but based off what just happened I'd guess it's the gpu or the psu/cables powering it. But I really don't know.

 

*sigh*

 

 

Dont trust me too much here, but it could be a heating or memory issue if windows did a reboot without turning off.

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6 minutes ago, Jskn said:

Dont trust me too much here, but it could be a heating or memory issue if windows did a reboot without turning off.

Yea, but now my monitor randomly turned off and on again. Which was probably the GPU actually doing so I'd think.

Since it isn't displaying any of the typical GPU dying signs, and is perfectly fine, I'm thinking it's something with power delivery.

Unfortunately I have no way to test this, I only have 1 PSU and 1 GPU and I might have more cables, but cables are less likely to be the dying part here.

 

I don't understand why my monitor just fucking restarted now for no reason, right after my whole PC restarted for no reason.

I think I'll keep GPU-Z open and see if it shows anything weird if my monitor/gpu restarts again. Dunno what else to do.

I fucking hate having problems and not being able to solve them, it's the worst lol...

 

Nothing is overheating, so that isn't the issue. I don't understand why my display would have just restarted if it was memory.

 

If anyone else has any suggestions I'd really appreciate it

[Agent69]

15 minutes ago, Hunched said:

Yea, but now my monitor randomly turned off and on again. Which was probably the GPU actually doing so I'd think.

Since it isn't displaying any of the typical GPU dying signs, and is perfectly fine, I'm thinking it's something with power delivery.

Unfortunately I have no way to test this, I only have 1 PSU and 1 GPU and I might have more cables, but cables are less likely to be the dying part here.

 

I don't understand why my monitor just fucking restarted now for no reason, right after my whole PC restarted for no reason.

I think I'll keep GPU-Z open and see if it shows anything weird if my monitor/gpu restarts again. Dunno what else to do.

I fucking hate having problems and not being able to solve them, it's the worst lol...

 

Nothing is overheating, so that isn't the issue. I don't understand why my display would have just restarted if it was memory.

 

If anyone else has any suggestions I'd really appreciate it

Can be virus Too.

Check with AntiVirus 

Or Open your pc and clean If it have Dust

[Hunched]

I just checked event viewer and I do have a warning that display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and successfully recovered.

 

Its gotta be hardware related to the GPU, PSU, or cables right? A software error wouldn't have straight up caused my PC to reboot would it, for a GPU?

Usually just the GPU would reboot/restart and everything else would function normally.

 

It's also crashing while idle, not even under any load.

I've never had my GPU crash like this, when overclocking its always been a display driver crash notification in the notification tray, not display and PC restarts so I'm a bit confused.

 

Maybe I should post this under the GPU section shortly