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Hello, everyone.
As the title states one of my friends had recently built his first computer and everything was working fine, and now every 20 minutes or so seemingly for no reason his computer shuts down and sometimes even fails to reboot 3 or 4 times before making a boot.
The computer usually fails when he puts it under some load as in moving a large file or trying to play games.
He originally thought it was a dying hard drive and having an issue in that, so he fully replaced the HDD with a new one, loaded a new OS, and still having issues with it.
He has checked all the connections.
Ran without the card.
Speccy tells him his parts aren't overheating.
Moved RAM into different slots to test ram.
His specs are:
Any help is greatly appreciated.
As the title states one of my friends had recently built his first computer and everything was working fine, and now every 20 minutes or so seemingly for no reason his computer shuts down and sometimes even fails to reboot 3 or 4 times before making a boot.
The computer usually fails when he puts it under some load as in moving a large file or trying to play games.
He originally thought it was a dying hard drive and having an issue in that, so he fully replaced the HDD with a new one, loaded a new OS, and still having issues with it.
He has checked all the connections.
Ran without the card.
Speccy tells him his parts aren't overheating.
Moved RAM into different slots to test ram.
His specs are:
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Could be the PSU, PC Nut Adam (R.I.P) is currently experiencing issues much like this, random shut downs ect.
I'd either look into returning the PSU, or getting another to try. If it still happens then you can rule that out.
Tell him to run MemTest, that should rule RAM / Motherboard out also.
I'd either look into returning the PSU, or getting another to try. If it still happens then you can rule that out.
Tell him to run MemTest, that should rule RAM / Motherboard out also.
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Craig wrote Could be the PSU, PC Nut Adam (R.I.P) is currently experiencing issues much like this, random shut downs ect.
I'd either look into returning the PSU, or getting another to try. If it still happens then you can rule that out.
Tell him to run MemTest, that should rule RAM / Motherboard out also.
It ended up being his PSU. He got it sorted out and everything is working fine now. Thanks for your help.
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