PC crash issue after closing programs

[PeggersXtreme]

Hi all,

 

Been taking a look at a relatives PC that keeps crashing whenever they close a game or program the pc stays on but screen goes off and says no signal to start with I thought it must be a GPU issue but I have put it in another pc ran various benchmarks including furmark and it ran completely fine.

 

I've tried a different PSU and Ram but still no luck

 

Now I am thinking motherboard? could this be the cause sometimes the pc will power on and then straight off again. any ideas will be appreciated. 

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Very likely RAM, sounds like on of the DIMMs is bad, run MEMTEST.

[PeggersXtreme]

1 minute ago, Jacktastic-Mofo said:

Very likely RAM, sounds like on of the DIMMs is bad, run MEMTEST.

I will do that tomorrow then  is there anything else that could cause this kind of issue. Basically he closes a game and then 30 seconds after closing the signal to the monitor will go completely. (Tested GPU on another PC didn't have same issue)

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Just now, PeggersXtreme said:

I will do that tomorrow then  is there anything else that could cause this kind of issue. Basically he closes a game and then 30 seconds after closing the signal to the monitor will go completely. (Tested GPU on another PC didn't have same issue)

Unless the PC is overheating (which it doesn't sound like it is) than I see nothing else being a more probable cause. The only thing I can think of that would fix the issue would be to replace the RAM which should be very inexpensive for like 8GB's of RAM it'll cost like $20.

[PeggersXtreme]

1 minute ago, Jacktastic-Mofo said:

Unless the PC is overheating (which it doesn't sound like it is) than I see nothing else being a more probable cause. The only thing I can think of that would fix the issue would be to replace the RAM which should be very inexpensive for like 8GB's of RAM it'll cost like $20.

I have a spare kit in my box of spare pc parts lol it's only a 1066mhz 8gb ddr3 kit but will do to test if it's the ram before I tell him to go purchase some new ram 

[incarnate]

Could be a driver issue. They do get corrupted sometimes. If you haven't already, I'd use ddu to uninstall the current drivers then reinstall the latest whql drivers

[PeggersXtreme]

8 minutes ago, incarnate said:

Could be a driver issue. They do get corrupted sometimes. If you haven't already, I'd use ddu to uninstall the current drivers then reinstall the latest whql drivers

I completely fresh installed windows 10 on a new hard drive with drivers because the old hard drive had bad sectors 

[incarnate]

11 hours ago, PeggersXtreme said:

I completely fresh installed windows 10 on a new hard drive with drivers because the old hard drive had bad sectors 

fair enough, well i have nothing further to add then good luck.

[PeggersXtreme]

On 11 August 2016 at 11:36 PM, Jacktastic-Mofo said:

Unless the PC is overheating (which it doesn't sound like it is) than I see nothing else being a more probable cause. The only thing I can think of that would fix the issue would be to replace the RAM which should be very inexpensive for like 8GB's of RAM it'll cost like $20.

Tested a different kit of ram from a working PC and it still crashes so now all that is left is the motherboard or CPU but I would have thought if it was the CPU it wouldn't even turn on?