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Unfortunately I have a random reboot issue going on. I'm not sure what the issue might be. Here's the system:
i5-2500k (stock)
Corsair 8gb (2 4gb sticks) RAM
500w Cooler Master PSU
ASRock motherboard (b75m-dgs)
Regular CD-RW drive (lite-on I think)
1tb Seagate 7200 rpm hard drive
Nvidia 650 Ti (EVGA)
My system is randomly rebooting. At first, it rebooted in games (2 or 3 times in Skyrim, once in DayZ). So I thought it might be my PSU, because it is only 360w at the 12v rail. But I think that's enough for the system since the graphics only draw 110 max and the CPU I don't think will go over 120w with turbo right now (or maybe it's only 95w that it will get up to). That plus all the other stuff I think is still good on the PSU even if my PSU isn't the best one out there.
Next, I was looking at email about 5 minutes after running 20 minutes worth of FurMark and Prime95 together straight to stress it (with no issues at all I might add) and then it just rebooted. Then, after it rebooted, it hit the Windows Logon screen and randomly rebooted again. Next boot up was totally fine.
The reboots are really random (I know, I've said that already). I don't see anything in particular that's making it happen. I'm wondering if RAM could be an issue, so I'm going to try to find a memory tester and see if that'll make it reboot. Otherwise, what else do you guys recommend I test? Stress testing the CPU and GPU with FurMark and Prime95's max heat/power test I would have thought was a pretty good stress test (ran it in 15 minute and 5 minute intervals with low max temps on both CPU and GPU when it was all done). Tsumi from the PSU section here recommended I do that (thanks Tsumi).
So, what would you guys start looking at now? Memory? CPU bad somehow? Motherboard? (I really hope it isn't the CPU or MB
). Let me know what to try from here. Thanks!
EDIT - more information:
Things I've done to the PC since I built it:
1) Try to overclock, didn't get it to work so I defaulted everything in the BIOS.
2) Upgraded BIOS from version 1.0 to 1.10 (seems fine, version took and all that).
3) "Downgraded" graphics driver from latest Beta to WHQL cert driver.
4) Installed/used Throttlestop, Intel X-treme utility, MSI Afterburner (haven't overclocked at all with Afterburner, just using it for the OSD to see temps/GPU/mem usage).
5) Went "driver happy" with some Intel drivers because I had a device that had a missing driver in Device Manager, and from research looked to be an Intel something or other. So I installed 2 or 3 things from Intel that should have fixed it, none did. I just uninstalled those.
Right now I haven't rebooted after running ANOTHER 15 minute FurMark test (with burn in and 8x AA enabled) and running Prime95 max heat torture test for 30+ minutes. All is well. Right now Prime95 is running a memory torture test (not sure how much that's really stressing it though, just says "uses a lot of RAM"). No reboots suffered yet. It's completely random.
I got a new Power Supply (600w Thermaltake) and I'm thinking I might pop that in there just make sure my power needs are satisfied, as well as to check the case/MB/plugs and stuff to make sure nothing is touching weird somewhere and shorting, or something like that. The box isn't moving or being moved, so I don't think anything is shorting. The spacers are all installed under the MB and all that too, so I think all that is fine.
I just don't know what to look into really since everything seems to work great, and then suddenly it all just reboots. It's an instant reboot too - black screen, I hear the hard drive click off like it's shutting down, and then it powers back on by itself. Super weird.
i5-2500k (stock)
Corsair 8gb (2 4gb sticks) RAM
500w Cooler Master PSU
ASRock motherboard (b75m-dgs)
Regular CD-RW drive (lite-on I think)
1tb Seagate 7200 rpm hard drive
Nvidia 650 Ti (EVGA)
My system is randomly rebooting. At first, it rebooted in games (2 or 3 times in Skyrim, once in DayZ). So I thought it might be my PSU, because it is only 360w at the 12v rail. But I think that's enough for the system since the graphics only draw 110 max and the CPU I don't think will go over 120w with turbo right now (or maybe it's only 95w that it will get up to). That plus all the other stuff I think is still good on the PSU even if my PSU isn't the best one out there.
Next, I was looking at email about 5 minutes after running 20 minutes worth of FurMark and Prime95 together straight to stress it (with no issues at all I might add) and then it just rebooted. Then, after it rebooted, it hit the Windows Logon screen and randomly rebooted again. Next boot up was totally fine.
The reboots are really random (I know, I've said that already). I don't see anything in particular that's making it happen. I'm wondering if RAM could be an issue, so I'm going to try to find a memory tester and see if that'll make it reboot. Otherwise, what else do you guys recommend I test? Stress testing the CPU and GPU with FurMark and Prime95's max heat/power test I would have thought was a pretty good stress test (ran it in 15 minute and 5 minute intervals with low max temps on both CPU and GPU when it was all done). Tsumi from the PSU section here recommended I do that (thanks Tsumi).
So, what would you guys start looking at now? Memory? CPU bad somehow? Motherboard? (I really hope it isn't the CPU or MB
). Let me know what to try from here. Thanks!EDIT - more information:
Things I've done to the PC since I built it:
1) Try to overclock, didn't get it to work so I defaulted everything in the BIOS.
2) Upgraded BIOS from version 1.0 to 1.10 (seems fine, version took and all that).
3) "Downgraded" graphics driver from latest Beta to WHQL cert driver.
4) Installed/used Throttlestop, Intel X-treme utility, MSI Afterburner (haven't overclocked at all with Afterburner, just using it for the OSD to see temps/GPU/mem usage).
5) Went "driver happy" with some Intel drivers because I had a device that had a missing driver in Device Manager, and from research looked to be an Intel something or other. So I installed 2 or 3 things from Intel that should have fixed it, none did. I just uninstalled those.
Right now I haven't rebooted after running ANOTHER 15 minute FurMark test (with burn in and 8x AA enabled) and running Prime95 max heat torture test for 30+ minutes. All is well. Right now Prime95 is running a memory torture test (not sure how much that's really stressing it though, just says "uses a lot of RAM"). No reboots suffered yet. It's completely random.
I got a new Power Supply (600w Thermaltake) and I'm thinking I might pop that in there just make sure my power needs are satisfied, as well as to check the case/MB/plugs and stuff to make sure nothing is touching weird somewhere and shorting, or something like that. The box isn't moving or being moved, so I don't think anything is shorting. The spacers are all installed under the MB and all that too, so I think all that is fine.
I just don't know what to look into really since everything seems to work great, and then suddenly it all just reboots. It's an instant reboot too - black screen, I hear the hard drive click off like it's shutting down, and then it powers back on by itself. Super weird.
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