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So I recently installed a new SSHD in my computer as my old HDD was going on 7 years of use. The SSHD is primarily used for storage of games and school files etc. I have a 500GB Samsung 850 EVO as my main drive with my OS installed on it. I used acronis to do a direct copy from my old hard drive to the new SSHD. Everything seemed to work fine for a few hours so I decided to format my old HDD because I had a backup on another external HDD just in case something went wrong. However, about a day later I was playing Diablo 3 when all of a sudden, my monitors go black, and my computer restarts. It boots right back into windows just like I had told it to restart, it had no error codes or any pop ups of any kind. I thought that was pretty weird but everything still seemed to work find so I didn't pay any thought to it. Until a few hours later it did the same thing 5 times in about 30 minutes. After that i tried some troubleshooting steps. I ran a check disk and sfc scan on both SSD and SSHD and they both came up with nothing. I decided to check the BIOS and got some weird findings. Both drives are plugged into the 2 6GB/s sata ports on my motherboard, but my BIOS says they are running in IDE instead of AHCI. No matter what I did both drives would stay in IDE. Then I also noticed that my RAM timings had been changed, even though I have never messed with my RAM. It is DDR3 1600MHZ at 9-9-9-24 timings. However now they are running at 7-7-7-19 timings (but at same clock speed). After the last time it shutdown for no reason, when it tried to boot up, it gave a error code "inaccessible boot device". This happened a few times after restarting and running startup repair. Then eventually it just went right back into windows with no problems. Kinda at a loss of what to do next so any help would be appreciated!

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I'm not entirely convinced that it's the drives at fault here.

I'm thinking it's either a PSU issue or a CPU temperature issue. I'm leaning towards PSU.

What power supply do you have (Brand/model and wattage)?

Also what motherboard and how old is you PC?

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I am also thinking its a PSU problem.

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Have you check windows event viewer yet?

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PSU is an EVGA 850W G2. Only had it for about 7 months.

I'm only assuming the new hard drive because i never had any problem with this rig until the new hard drive was put in. 

 

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53 minutes ago, MrDrWho13 said:

I'm not entirely convinced that it's the drives at fault here.

I'm thinking it's either a PSU issue or a CPU temperature issue. I'm leaning towards PSU.

What power supply do you have (Brand/model and wattage)?

Also what motherboard and how old is you PC?

So PSU EVGA 850 G2 only 7 months old.

Motherboard is MSI Big Bang Xpower with an 980X processor. Processor was out of an old alienware desktop so it is probably in use for about 6 years. As for the motherboard it was brand new in box 3 years ago.

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If you think it was the drive, then try without the drive and see if it works.

I'd try a different power supply.

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I will be testing my PSU soon with a tester. Yesterday for about an hour until i restarted a few times, none of my USB ports were working, not on the front IO or on the motherboard. Makes me wonder if my motherboard could be going out? or is that another sign of bad PSU?

 

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