PC keeps crashing/re-booting

[JoseJones]

Hi, not sure if this is the section to post this issue yet or not but, here's my issue:

About once or twice a week my computer just freezes, locks up makes a weird sound like the sound is trying to play but skips super fast like an old record and then, shuts down and re-boots again. My cursor locks up, everything locks up. I check my device manager and it does show an error but is not helpful at all - as usual. When it re-boots it works like nothing ever happened.

I've spent all day doing every test I can think of from the Ultimate Boot CD

* CPU test
* HD test
* memory
* video memory

not one single error to be found.

I've been using HWinfo64 to keep an eye on temps and I have NEVER seen anything beyond normal - even cooler than normal likely due to my case with all the fans.

The issue has happened while simply going thru Youtube videos, surfing the net, gaming, playing a DVD and watching a movie on Netflix. Nothing beyond gaming was intensive so, I really can't imagine what it could be.

The only issues I have noticed are that I am starting to have trouble with my motherboards USB ports appear to be crapping out on me - I've been using the X12 Turtle Beach headphones and was getting loads of static/white noise that was really bad so I switched ports to the front and it doesn't seem to be an issue so, I'm unclear if that's a symptom or not.

Anybody else ever experience this issue?

My system:

MB: MSI 790FX-GD70
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955
RAM: 8g Mushkin 1600
GPU: Evga 760 SC 2g
PSU: Seasonic X-750w
HD: WD Blue 500g SATA 3, 16mb cache
EX-HD: 1T
Case: Antec One Illusion (w/4 fans)
OS: Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit

 

[Dangman]

Could be mobo failure considering that the USB ports are failing.

 

[JoseJones]

That's exactly what I was suspecting too. Is there a test for the mobo to find out?

I'm now also thinking it's a software issue. I may simply need to re-format. I'm wondering if my CCleaner tool is removing bits and pieces from my OS registry to cause this?

From the event viewer:

Windows 7 error 0x80041003

Windows 7 fatal error 0x88980406

How To Disable the Automatic Restart on System Failure in Windows 7
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/automatic-restart-windows-7.htm

I have disabled the restart this morning just as a test to see what will happen.

 

[Armenius]

That's exactly what I was suspecting too. Is there a test for the mobo to find out?

I'm now also thinking it's a software issue. I may simply need to re-format. I'm wondering if my CCleaner tool is removing bits and pieces from my OS registry to cause this?

From the event viewer:

Windows 7 error 0x80041003

Windows 7 fatal error 0x88980406

How To Disable the Automatic Restart on System Failure in Windows 7
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/automatic-restart-windows-7.htm

I have disabled the restart this morning just as a test to see what will happen.

Windows 7 error 0x80041003
Events cannot be delivered through this filter until the problem is corrected.
- Usually not indicative of a bigger problem, as some systems trip this event ID on startup every time.


Windows 7 fatal error 0x88980406
A device attached to the system is not functioning.
- This is the big one. Some piece of hardware is failing while your computer is running, causing Windows to crash.

If Windows shows a BSOD, record the error description if it shows one, the IRQ address, and error code (will be different from event code).

I would suspect either a PSU or motherboard problem. The software is not as accurate as a multimeter, but find a good program to monitor voltages and enable its logging features. It will still give you a decent idea as to any power issues.

 

[JoseJones]

Windows 7 fatal error 0x88980406
A device attached to the system is not functioning.
- This is the big one. Some piece of hardware is failing while your computer is running, causing Windows to crash.

If Windows shows a BSOD, record the error description if it shows one, the IRQ address, and error code (will be different from event code).

I would suspect either a PSU or motherboard problem. The software is not as accurate as a multimeter, but find a good program to monitor voltages and enable its logging features. It will still give you a decent idea as to any power issues.

Ok, so all I really did by un-checking the "do not restart" box may be to allow it to give me the blue screen of death to give me an error code, which may help.