PC Crashing again during gaming....complete shutdown

[Dragosanii]

Hi all,

I bought my rig under Order Ref: 682247 (Spec at the bottom of this thread) and it was fine for about 10 months. I had a shutting down issue and when the rig was returned back to PCSpec, hey replaced the motherboard and kindly upgraded the cooling system from a Hydro i80 to the i100.....

Rig has been fine for another long time (around 10 months I believe), but I'm experiencing some similar issues now.....

I play certain games for a period of time (about 30 to 40 mins) and then the machine just closes down as if the power has been shut off (feels like overheat?). Error logs in Windows do not show anything, only that the PC was shutdown abnormally. As soon as I boot back up and have a look at the temps in the BIOS it's sitting at around 70 degrees......

So, I need to do some troubleshooting again to find out what's causing these issues so I'm asking for help from the forum community and PCSpecialist....

The games this is occurring on is:
Wildstar, Sniper Elite 3, Warhammer:Vermintide, GTAV, MGS:V......

Any advice how to pinpoint what's causing this?


PC Spec:
Processor (CPU) AMD FX-9370 Eight Core CPU (4.4GHz-4.7GHz/16MB CACHE/AM3+)
Motherboard ASUS® SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 (DDR3, USB3.0, 6Gb/s, CrossFireX/Sli)
Memory (RAM) 32GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (4 x 8GB)
Graphics Card 4GB AMD RADEON™ R9 290X - DVI, HDMI, DP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable
1st Hard Disk 120GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk 2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 64MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 16x BLU-RAY WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW
Power Supply CORSAIR 850W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Processor Coo Corsair H80i Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (Now an i100)
Sound Card ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
OS Genuine Windows 8.1 Professional 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence

 

[Dragosanii]

I've installed Open Hardware Monitor and dropped this onto my second screen to watch what has been happening to the temps etc and been playing Vermintide for a few hours.....Haven't had the crashes I was having this morning at all...very weird.

 

[ihavenoideawhatiamdoing]

I've installed Open Hardware Monitor and dropped this onto my second screen to watch what has been happening to the temps etc and been playing Vermintide for a few hours.....Haven't had the crashes I was having this morning at all...very weird.

A watched kettle never boils . On a more serious note, I would suggest playing all the different games that have caused/been in use at the time of the crashes, and trying to simulate as closely to how the pc was when it has bsod

 

[Dragosanii]

Yep, doing that over the next couple of days. Wasn't really a BSOD. Just a straight power off, but I know what you mean Will update when I can. Has been stable for 4 hours tonight

 

[Agito]

I know this is a very stupid suggestion but please check your PSU cable. lol The reason why I'm saying this is because last week I started freaking out over my PC randomly hitting the killswitch now and then when playing games. Turns out my foot was touching the power cable and it got slightly loose and then breathing in the general direction of it would cause a power cut. When I play games I always sit in the same position so when I was monitoring why it keeps going off I wasn't in my "comfort spot" and the foot wasn't touching the cable so it never went poof during monitoring.

I feel so stupid now...

 

[Dragosanii]

All checked and secure

Been stable with vermintide and wildstar all day....wonder if the issue is resolved...Ah well, can close this thread for now. No idea what was causing the issues.