Windows 10 Persistent Crash/Restart

jarinx283 · November 12, 2017

Hello everyone. Recently, I cleaned my pc because it was due for cleaning. Before cleaning it, my system works fine with no restarts or crashes happening. Now, after cleaning my pc, I began to experience random restarts on my pc. I thought it was only a hiccup at first but it began to happen randomly and continuously. Because of this, I thought that my hard disk drive was the problem so I replaced it with a new one and I freshly installed windows 10.

Now, after installing windows and updating the system to the latest update with drivers fully installed, I began to experience these random crashes again. Especially when playing video games. I ran memtest and it turns out fine and my CPU cores are not overheating, according to Core Temp. No viruses were detected according to the AVG Antivirus Program and Windows Defender. I checked the Event Viewer to find out what's going on but this is the only problem I can find:

"The CldFlt service failed to start due to the following error:
The request is not supported."

My question is that what do you think is the true cause of my PC restarts/crashes? Is it the updates? My components? Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated Thank you!

Here are my specs:
Processor: i3-6100
Graphics Card: Palit GTX 1050
RAM: Ballistix 8gb 2400Mhz
Storage: WD 1Tb (Before), Seagate 250gb (Recent)
PSU: Thermaltake Litepower 550w

kb5zue · November 12, 2017

I recently had a situation just like this with one of my clients. Same situation as you described. Put it on the workbench and cleaned everything brand new and still the problem persisted. With no temp problems described either using HWInfo.

Just out of shits and giggles, pulled the cpu fan and sink and used denatured alcohol to clean the sink and the cpu. Put a fresh bit of Arctic Silver on the sink and spread it thin just like you're supposed to and put the sink and fan back in place. Problem disappeared and now the machine runs like new again without any BSOD's, restarts or shutdowns.

Give it a shot, nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Good Luck.

jarinx283 · November 12, 2017

19 minutes ago, kb5zue said:

I recently had a situation just like this with one of my clients. Same situation as you described. Put it on the workbench and cleaned everything brand new and still the problem persisted. With no temp problems described either using HWInfo.

Just out of shits and giggles, pulled the cpu fan and sink and used denatured alcohol to clean the sink and the cpu. Put a fresh bit of Arctic Silver on the sink and spread it thin just like you're supposed to and put the sink and fan back in place. Problem disappeared and now the machine runs like new again without any BSOD's, restarts or shutdowns.

Give it a shot, nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Good Luck.

I would certainly try it. Will post results at a later time. Thank you, good sir!