eVGA 750i FTW Weirdness.

Dhampir

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Ok I just got my new 750i FTW edition 4 days ago. It's been great... fast, stable, all good.

Then 2 nights ago, I started to go insane

Now, this might have been inevitable, but at this point I am going to blame it on the board.

So I noticed that twice, during gameplay(Silent Hunter 4, awesome), the game closes, I see my desktop.. 'Windows is Shutting down'. It shuts down(as I look on incredulously, not touching anything), and restarts itself.

I think hmm, thats the most friendly crash I've ever seen but ok, lemme check my temps.. all good. Let me check voltages, fsb settings etc. All good.
I leave the bios and return to Windows. Play again. Again the game shuts down and 'Windows is shutting down'. Again it restarts itself.

I play a different game hoping this is some insanely weird game bug. All seems well. I download the latest patch for Silent Hunter 4 and install it. Then shut down the computer and go to bed.

15 minutes later I hear the Vista theme as my computer HAS RESTARTED ITSELF.
I go in, WTF for a minute, and shut it down.
15 minutes later I hear the Vista theme as my computer HAS RESTARTED ITSELF.
I go in, and taking a minute to think how could this be happening, it says 'Windows is shutting down' and shuts itself off.
15 minutes later I hear the Vista theme as my computer HAS RESTARTED ITSELF.
1 minute later it shuts itself down.

I am incredulous. Either this is the most bizarre power management BIOS bug I've ever seen or I am losing my mind.

I am slowly losing control of it: Basically in the last day I don't have much control over whether it will shut itself down while I am trying to use it, or start itself up when I am away from it. CRAZY. Sometimes it's so bad it is turning on and off so fast it will come on and go off and come on again before the monitor even has time to wake up.

Surely I have a bad board yes? This can't be an option somewhere in the BIOS that I haven't found?
 
what error is your event logger reporting? just from skimming your post looks like psu or power reg problems on the board (since you have ruled out heat as an issue)
 
shutdown in the manner you are describing is the system protecting itself -ps, heat.. check the watts and the temps. Maybe windows updates? As suggested, comb the logs.
 
maybe you computer is possesed? Take it to a local church and have a priest do his thing.
 
Yeah check you cpu temp. I just had the same thing happen to me, my rig is water cooled and the pump power connection became loose and the pump stopped working and next thing I knew it just shut down. The bios overtemp thing works! So I found the bad connection and just put the pump on a new molex and all is well.
 
Oh and BTW I just ordered the P55 FTW board, hope I don't have any issues. I am gonna run the i7-860, 8 gigs of gskill ripjaws 2000 mhz, and an EVGA GTX 295 COOP FTW
 
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