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Hello everyone. My friend started having issues with his pc the computer would power off in any type of Gpu load cinebench opengl test or even launching minecraft would crash (black out entirely)the pc i tested the power supply using a paper clip and a multimeter everything was fine and hr also reports that his pc can be turned on for days and doesn't shutdown also i have tried cinebench cpu test and it didn't shut down any type of gpu load would shut it down also it cannot be over heating because the pc doesn't even get the chance to heat and also i was monitoring the cpu and gpu heat which gpu was 40 C and cpu was around 50 C. Please help

specs:

z97 gaming7 motherboard

2x4g corsair ram(not really sure which one)

GV-N970WF3OC-4GD graphics card

cx 750 750w corsair power supply

i7 4970k cpu

windows 10 64bit

bios version american megathreads v1.6 

PS: his pc was shipped from where he used to live so maybe there is damage?

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On 8/10/2018 at 7:10 PM, Ajt307 said:

Sounds good, let us know if you end up fixing it

so update we reseated the graphics card didn't work but we changed the port it seemed to work at first nothing crashed everything was fine until we restarted the crashing started again we removed the cmos battery replugged it nothing changed pls help.

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You've re-seated it, but have you made sure you're 6 and 8 pin power connectors are fully in? Sometimes they can push against each other and not be connected properly and that can lead to power issues. On my PSU it's actually 2x6 pin and 1x2 pin so that can be a tight fit.

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