Pc Restarting

[Dean Morello]

my pc keep restarting when I get into heavy gaming, playing games. I am not sure why its doing this or what is causing it to do this, a mate said to post a forum and see if I can get any help
basically it just restarts from 5 minutes to 20 minutes in, once it restarts I get to a windows 10 lock screen and have to wait 5 minutes roughly then my usb connections get power (Mouse, keyboard, headset)
I am not sure why its doing this its only just started. I originally thought it had a over heating issues but turns out I was only getting 45c ish on the program SpeedFan. 

ive been told to monitor the psu volts but nothing seemed out of place to myself getting a max of 2 volts but I honestly and clueless about this 

[sillypenguin213]

Overclocked GPU and PSU issue could cause unstable 

[Eliptic]

1 minute ago, sillypenguin213 said:

Overclocked GPU and PSU issue could cause unstable 

Yeah, true. i had the same issue when i overclocked my CPU a couple months ago. Removing the overclock should do the trick.

[Dean Morello]

I don't believe ive clocked either of them

[sillypenguin213]

2 minutes ago, Dean Morello said:

I don't believe ive clocked either of them

Some Asus software may overclock automatically. Shut them down and check PSU

[Dean Morello]

doesn't seem to have changed anything really. originally I thought it was my heatsink on my cpu so I went and got a Masterliquid ML240L but it still occurred so im really confused about this

[ItsTheDuckAgain]

start --> type "eventvwr" --> left panel --> Windows Protocols --> right click on system --> filter current protocol --> filter for event IDs 1074,6008 --> come back with the results.

 

1074 is "normal restarts"

6008 is "unexpexted Shut Downs"

 

 

Side note other related IDs

• 6005: Windows start-up
• 6006: Windows shutdown (properly)
• 6008: Windows shutdown (unexpectedl)

[Praxis727]

have you done all your firmware/chipset/driver updates.  There was issues with legacy/uefi not working with 1709 windows update as well as failure in nvt kernals which caused video to be run by defaut windows generic drivers.  The pause before everything coming back could be windows loading generic drivers for the other peripherals as well?