PC Restarting when Gaming.

[EpicnessRo29]

Ok so I was playing Who's your Daddy (a very casual game) and every time I get out of the house I get like 30fps (drop from 160) and after 2 minutes or so it restarts.

It's interesting how Crysis 3 only restarted my PC once after the whole singleplayer storymode thingy. I've also ran FurMark and Aida64 Extreme at the same time with no problems!

If you want a photo of the case/PSU/config etc. just ask in the comments! Thanks

PC Specs:
MSI GTX 970 OC Tiger Edition

I5 4460

AsRock Z97 Pro3 Edition

Hyper X Savage Red 4x2 GB

[nickzana]

Are you sure you haven't made any overclocks that have caused your computer to be unstable?

[Narigaur]

Some questions:

• Do you get the Blue Screen Of Death?
• Have you overclocked any of your components?

[Tenshi017]

After the problem happens and you boot up,  go to start>and search event viewer click the down triangle on Windows logs and click the first error message.  Post here the message it has. 

[Husky]

Could be a few things:

 

1. Unstable Overclock

2. PSU not powerful enough

3. Faulty component(s)

4. Overheating

 

Please tell me the max temps that you get on the CPU and GPU. Also what is your PSU wattage and brand? Have you overclocked at all?

[Guest]

usually with problems like this is the power supply 

[Commander Llama]

In addition to all that's already been said: If you haven't, go to Advanced System Settings -> Advanced tab -> Startup and Recovery Settings -> uncheck 'Automatically restart'

 

This could be a BSOD that could tell more information but your PC is just automatically restarting. You could download BlueScreenViewer to get detailed information from your dump files.

 

This could also be a driver issue. GPU driver issue is pretty common too. The fairly recent Nvidia drivers had BSOD problems in some users. Just to be sure I would get the latest GPU drivers and run a Custom installation -> Clean install.